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HISTORICA
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Michael T. Hamerly
IN TRODU CCION
The last bibliographic guide to Ecuadorian historiography was published in 1978 (entry
150). Since then a veritable explosion of library materials on the history of Ecuador has
occurred. Literally thousands of new books, articles, and doctoral dissertations in the
Humanities and Social Sciences, relating to the past of Ecuador in one way or another, have
appeared and continue to appear. Yet coverage of these materials in specialized as well as in
standard abstracts, bibliographies, and indexes has been less than satisfactory. In this regard it
cannot be overemphasized that Ecuador is one of those countries for and in which bibliographic
control had yet to be achieved as of the late 1990s, and, I suspect, still remains to be achieved.
Concurrent with the explosion of publications has been the internationalization of
Ecuadorian studies. Although there had always been some interest in Ecuador elsewhere in the
world, there did not used to be more than a few Ecuadorianists. The relative neglect of
Ecuadorian studies outside of Ecuador, however, began to be rectified in the 1970s. By the
1990s, there were dozens of professionally trained scholars, in the Humanities and Social
Sciences, in the United States and Canada, in France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain,
elsewhere in Europe, and in other Latin American countries, actively engaged in research and
publishing on a wide variety of topics having to do with Ecuador.
The explosion of interest in Ecuador elsewhere in the world has contributed to the increase
in the quality as well as to the quantity of work being done on the country. The
internationalization of Ecuadorian studies is not without its downside, however. On the one
hand, some of the work being done appears in little known or obscure venues. On the other,
some of the publications in question never appear in other languages or are not translated and
republished in Spanishthe one language we should all have in commonuntil years,
sometimes decades, later. Therefore it has become increasingly more difficult to stay abreast of
the literature, and it has long since become necessary for Ecuadorianists to cope with materials
in several languagesat least English, French, and German in addition to Spanishin order to
remain current in their respective fields.
Heretofore there were only two comprehensive attempts to register historical production on
Ecuador from pre-Hispanic times through the present: Carlos Manuel Larreas Bibliografa
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cientfica del Ecuador (Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 19481953, 5 v. [entry 110]; 2 ed.:
Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispnica, 1952, 5 v. in 1 [entry 111]); and Robert E. Norriss Gua
bibliogrfica para el estudio de la historia ecuatoriana (Austin: Institute of Latin American Studies,
University of Texas at Austin, 1978 [entry 150]). Both were pioneering works.
Larreas Bibliografa cientfica was the first comprehensive register of ecuatoriana, not just of
Ecuadorian historiography. Furthermore, it was also the most comprehensive bibliography of
ecuatoriana until 1989, when it began to be supplanted but not altogether superseded by the
Diccionario bibliogrfico ecuatoriano (entry 26). The 1 ed. of Larreas Bibliografa cientfica listed
8,732 books and articles in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences published through
1946. The 2 ed. added 568 items, raising the total to 9,300, and advanced coverage through
1949.
Discipline specific, Norriss Gua bibliogrfica updated and surpassed Larreas Bibliografa
cientfica insofar as historical materials per se are concerned. Norris described 3,577 books,
pamphlets, articles, theses, and miscellaneous manuscripts, including some older works that did
not appear in Larreas Bibliografa cientfica. Norris also annotated some entries and added author
and subject indexes, making his Gua bibliogrfica more useful and easier to use than Larreas
Bibliografa cientfica.
Although they will never be out-of-date, Larreas Bibliografa cientfica and Norriss Gua
bibliogrfica inevitably became dated. They also suffer from errors of omission and commission.
As already noted, Larreas Bibliografa cientfica stops with 1946 or 1949 imprints, depending
upon the edition consulted. (Even though Larrea began to publish a 3 ed. [entry 112], the
new edition was limited to anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic materials.) The major
problems with Larreas Bibliografa cientfica are: he did not record publishers or printers; and in
the case of books, he did not always specify the number of pagesoversights he rectified to some
extent in the 3 ed. Furthermore, Larrea did not index his work. Nonetheless, his bare bones
entries appear to be correct for the most part.
Norriss Gua bibliogrfica advanced coverage of historical and related publications through
the mid 1970she did not specify a cutoff yearbut Norris violated one of the basic canons of
research. Apparently he relied extensively on secondhand records, the specifics of which he
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does not seem to have checked against the actual publications. I do not know how else Norris
could have made so many mistakes. He misattributed authorship in some cases; he garbled some
titles; and in far too many instances, he failed to give complete publication data or pagination,
especially in the case of articles. Furthermore, Norris included some manuscripts, without
specifying where they may be seen, and some imprints that have nothing whatsoever to do with
Ecuador but with Equatorial Africa.
It is important to note, however, that Larrea and Norris did not have at their disposal the
bibliographic tools that subsequently came into existence, especially computerized databases.
Moreover, there is nothing wrong with the scissors-and-paste approach to the compilation of a
working bibliography. The different disciplines disagree as to how to cite, however, and what to
include in a citation. Furthermore, even the most punctilious scholars and librarians make
mistakes. Therefore, it behooves bibliographers to verify citations and catalog records against
the particulars of the actual publications, if at all possible. Not to do so is to run the risk of
perpetuating not just cryptic but erroneous citations.
I too have relied on the work of others, especially on Larrea and Norris, but I have
endeavored to check every brief or suspect record against either the actual book, article, or
dissertation, or against as many other, discrete records of the work in question as needed to flesh
out or correct descriptions and to assign descriptors. In brief, I have tried to lay to rest as many
phantoms of opus as possible without creating any new ones. Inevitably, therefore, several
hundred references, including some that correspond to important works, have had to be
excluded.
Two examples of what is meant by bibliographic ghosts are: German Colmenaress
Fundamentos econmicos y sociales de una diferenciacin nacional: el caso de la hacienda
serrana en el Ecuador, 18001810, Historia y espacio: revista de estudios regionales del
Departamento de Historia de la Universidad del Valle, 2:6/7 (1980); and John Isaacson, Holguer
Jara, and Frank Salomons, T ulipe: centro ceremonial del noroccidente de Pichincha (Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1986). I have been unable to verify the article by Colmenares.
Colmenares himself nowhere refers to it in his 1992 La hacienda en la sierra norte del Ecuador
(entry 6115), and it is not referenced in Marco Antonio Pealoza Bretels 1995 La
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investigacin historiogrfica sobre la hacienda serrana ecuatoriana del s. XIX (entry 270).
As for the Isaacson, Jara, and Salomon work, it does exist, but apparently only in
manuscript. Notwithstanding the reference to T ulipe in various monographs, Salomon himself
assured me that the book in question was not published. Undoubtedly that it is why it did not
show up in any online public access catalog or in the Banco Central del Ecuadors catalog of its
own publications. (Salomons contribution to T ulipe, however, was finally published as a
separate in 1997 by Abya-Yalanot by the Banco Centralas: Los Yumbos, N iguas y T satchila o
Colorados durante la colonia espaola: etnohistoria del noroccidente de Pichincha, Ecuador [131 p.].)
Bibliografa histrica del Ecuador lists more than 8,814 books (including compendia of
sources), articles in periodicals or in anthologies, and doctoral dissertations that have been
published or are available through University Microfilms International. The reason for fudging
as to the actual number of items included is because some entries correspond to several versions
of the same work or to entries with analytics. Some entries, for example, describe the latest
edition or reprint of a particular work with as many of the bibliographic particulars of earlier
editions or of the original version that I was able to ascertain and considered important enough
to detail in a note. Furthermore, I could not resist the temptation to add some titles in the
introductory remarks to the various sections that comprise this bibliography. I also plead guilty
to having included references to yet other works in some notes, sometimes by the same
author(s), sometimes by another author or other authors, that I was unable to list separately, at
least not without having to engage in extensive re-enumeration.
Generally speaking, the cutoff date of publication for inclusion in this bibliography is
December, 1995. Nonetheless, some 1996 and 1997 imprints appear here, the database not
having been closed until July 1997. I have been more liberal than Norris in coverage, but less
encompassing than Larrea. Whereas Norris gave short shrift to the pre-conquest period, I
consider that which may be called the pre-Hispanic period as important as any other and treat
it accordingly. The past after all does not begin with the written word. On the other hand,
only those Science publications and doctoral dissertations that have to do with the history of
scientific expeditions to Ecuador or with the history of scientific developments and events in
Ecuador have been included. In other words, unlike Larrea, I have excluded most works relating
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to the natural history of Ecuador. Basic or corein the Library Science sense of the
wordpublications on climate, flora and fauna, and geology, however, have been included.
Many works that are not readily available in Ecuador or elsewhere in Latin America appear
here. By the same token many works that are not generally available, if at all, in North America
or European libraries are also described. But the lack of access to any given work has nothing
whatsoever to do with its importance. Every book or article that appeared to me to be
significant has been listed regardless of its availability or, for that matter, the language in which
it appears, or its age, provided I was able to verify its bibliographic particulars and to ascertain
the gist of its contents. However, only doctoral dissertations that are readily available are
included. At the same time, I have included some works that are not important and never were
in an effort to provide as complete a historical bibliography of Ecuador as possible.
In a bibliography of this magnitude it is inevitable that some anomalies should have crept in.
I hope that I caught them all and send them on their way, but I cannot be certain. Be that as it
may, entries 2384, 3380, 3395, 5284, 6295, 6358, 7086, 7136, 7660, and 8304 were eliminated
because they turned out to be redundancies or citations whose particulars I could not flesh out.
Volume one of Bibliografa histrica del Ecuador opens with Bibliografas (entries 1200),
followed by sections on Estudios historiogrficos y relacionados (entries 201297), Ayudas de
investigacin (entries 298441), and Revistas (entries 442525). These four sections are
complementary, not altogether discrete, and as comprehensive as I could make them in order to
facilitate the task of other Ecuadorianists. Bibliografas includes every bibliography of
ecuatoriana in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences for which I was able to
find or to establish a satisfactory description. Estudios historiogrficos includes materials
having to do with the study and teaching of the Social Sciences as well as historiographical
studies per se. Only a few books and articles on the study and teaching of the Humanities
appear because there do not seem to be more than a handful. Apparently this is because the
Humanities, with the notable exception of Literature, did not attract nearly as much attention
in Ecuador as History and the Social Sciences during the closing decades of the twentieth
century.
Ayudas de investigacin consists primarily of guides to and studies of archives, libraries,
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museums, and private collections in Ecuador and repositories located elsewhere in the world
that have materials on Ecuador. The Revistas section lists every historical and related
periodical for which I have been able to find or establish an acceptable bibliographic description
(that is to say, a description that includes enumeration, place of publication, and dates of
issuance and publication). N.B. With one or two exceptions, serials that are primarily
bibliographic or statistical in coverage, however, are entered under Bibliografas or
Estadstica.
Works having to do with Ecuador in general or with the history of Ecuador at large are
described next, under Historia: obras generales y miscelneas (entries 526658), followed by
works on the Perodo prehispnico (entries 6591305). Perodo prehispnico lists studies
having to do with the archaeology, physical anthropology, and ethnohistory of Ecuador prior to
the Spanish conquest. This section also includes some works on the prehistory of the country
or its component regions. Inevitably the ethnohistorical studies listed in this section also
examine the Spanish conquest and the early colonial period to some extent and therefore will
be of interest to students of the Perodo hispnico too. Appropriate subject headings such as
Ecuador Historia Conquista espaola and Ecuador Historia Siglo XVI will guide
those readers who do not wish to plow through the Perodo prehispnico section to the
pertinent books, articles, and dissertations.
The remainder of volume one is given over to the Perodo hispnico, and the Perodo
Nacional. The Perodo hispnico is divided into La conquista espaola y las guerras civiles
(entries 13061341) and La colonia (entries 13421545). The section on the Spanish
conquest is meager because the conquest of what would become Ecuador has been overshadowed
by the conquest of the Tahuantinsuyu at large and because I chose not to include the majority of
the general accounts and coeval chronicles inasmuch as several excellent guides thereof and
thereto already exist.
The Perodo Nacional is divided into La independencia y bajo la Gran Colombia
(18091830) (entries 15461897), La Repblica (1830) (entries 18981994), Siglo XIX
(18301895) (entries 19952213), and Siglo XX. The Siglo XX is subdivided into 1895
(entries 22142298) 18951960 (entries 22992626) and 1960 (entries 26272973).
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Works on a particular region, province, city, or town during the colonial period, the
nineteenth century, or the twentieth century are listed under Historia regional or Historia
urbana in volume two. Works having to do with a particular region, province, city, or town
during the independence period, however, are entered under La independencia y bajo la Gran
Colombia (18091830) in volume one. This is not altogether logical, but it makes as much
sense as the alternative arrangement because the majority of works on the struggle for liberation
from Spain and the subsequent separation from Colombia appear to be primarily studies of the
independence period and secondarily of a specific region, province, city, or town. Again
recourse to the index of subject headings will guide the reader to the relevant works.
Another aside is in order at this point. There is no one correct way to arrange a
bibliography. By the same token there is no one correct way to determine aboutness1 The
most that one can hope to achieve is an arrangement that for the most part will guide scholars
and students to the materials they should consult, and an assignation of more or less appropriate
subject headings that will lead researchers to the majority, if not to all, of the specific works they
seek. In this regard, it should be noted that I initially assigned some works to divisions and
subdivisions on the basis of the subject headings proffered by catalogers rather than upon the
basis of personal perusal (not always possible), only to discover subsequently that some of the
works in question would fit better or in fact belonged elsewhere. But there comes a moment in
the life of every bibliography when one must bring it to a halt and launch it in the hopes that its
usefulness will outweigh its shortcomings.
Volume two opens with biographical and related materials. The great man approach
continues to be cultivated by many, perhaps the majority of, Ecuadorian scholars as evidenced
by the substantial number of works on protohombres listed under Biografas (29743703).
Biographies of women, mostly notable women but also some of women of lesser fame and
fortune, however, began to appear in the closing decades of the twentieth century.
Volume two continues with Historia de la cultura, Historia de la Iglesia, Historia de la
medicina, Historia demogrfica, Historia diplomtica y legal, Historia regional y estudios
relacionados, and Regionalismo. Historia de la cultura is divided into Obras generales y
miscelneas (entries 37043759), Arte y arquitectura (entries 37604045), Ciencias
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Quito. Similarly the Sierra sur took in Jan de Bracamoros (part of Peru since the independence
period) during the colonial period. I have listed only a few key works on sixteenth-,
seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and early-nineteenth-century Popayn, Pasto, and Jan and their
districts, however, because their histories are usually written as though they always belonged, or
should have belonged to modern Colombia and Peru, respectively. The Oriente takes in the
modern Provinces of Sucumbios, Napo, Pastaza, Morona-Santiago, and Zamora Chinchipe, and
as one goes back in time, those parts of Amazonia ceded to Colombia and taken over by Peru.
Volume two closes with the section on Regionalismo. Although regionalism is touched
upon to a greater or lesser extent in various works on the colonial and national periods, as of July
1997, there were surprisingly few studies that focus primarily on this topic (entries 65836593).
Volume three consists of four sections, Historia urbana y estudios relacionados. Economa
y Geografa, Etnografa, and Sociedad, the latter three of which are largely given over to
studies of events and developments of the second half of the twentieth century. Nonetheless,
Descripciones y viajes, the opening subsection of Economa y Geografa, includes accounts
of explorers and travelers from the seventeenth century onward and geographical studies of the
nineteenth as well as of the twentieth century. Some materials from the first half of the
twentieth century will also be found in the Condiciones econmicas subsection and the
Etnografa and Sociedad sections, not that all that many studies of continuing value in the
Social Sciences were done prior to the 1960s. The first ethnography of a community based on
field work, for example, did not appear until 1945 (item 8103).
Historia urbana y estudios relacionados is divided into Obras generales y miscelneas
(entries 65946636), Ambato (entries 66376653), Cuenca (entries 66546719),
Guayaquil (entries 67206892), Ibarra (entries 68936904), Latacunga (entries
69056908), Loja (entries 69096914), Otavalo (entries 69156925), Quito (entries
69267110), Riobamba (entries 71117124), and Otras ciudades y pueblos (entries
71257181). Even though Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuencain that orderclearly dominate the
subdiscipline of urban history, a substantial number of significant studies of other cities and
towns are known to exist, not all of which are listed here because I was unable to find copies or
establish adequate descriptions thereof.
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that no longer exist (e.g., the Omaguas). Unfortunately, upon preparing the subject index, I
discovered that I had not been altogether consistent in assignation of ethnohistorical materials.
Some therefore appear under the Ethographic section and subsections. My apologies in advance
to the reader, but it did not seem worthwhile to delay the appearance of this bibliography simply
in order to reshuffle some entries.
The Sociedad section is divided into Condiciones sociales (entries 83038398),
Estadstica (entries 83998513), Higiene pblica y salud (entries 85148626), Mujer
(entries 86278681), and Poblacin (entries 86828814).
Volume four consists of the indexes (author, subject, and series) to this work. The indexes
have been placed in a separate volume to facilitate consultation and utilization of this
bibliography.
Bibliografa histrica del Ecuador intentionally takes in much more than historical studies and
coeval sources. Yet that is how it should be. In the first place, almost all materials are grist to
the historians mill in the fulness of time. In the second place, the lines between History and
the Humanities, on the one hand, and between History and the Social Sciences, on the other,
are blurred in the Latin American countries. Intellectuals have been crossing the line almost
from the beginning of historiography in Ecuador. Pablo Herrera (18201896) and Pedro
Moncayo (18071888), for example, were literary critics as well as historians, and more recently
novelists and short story writers such as Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco (19081993) and Nelson
Estupin Blas (1915) have also written history or what passes for history.
Furthermore, the cultivators of the new history in Ecuador have been heavily influenced
by the paradigms and ideological baggage of the Social Sciences. This is not surprising. Many
of the scholars responsible for much of the late twentieth-century historical production here
within described and discussed took their professional training in Anthropology, Economics,
Political Science, or Sociologynot in Historyor were trained, at least in part, by Social
Scientists. Furthermore, it could be argued that in Ecuador the past as perceived is as much a
handmaiden of ideology and politics, as History as it has emerged as a discipline is driven by
ideology and politics.
But this is not the place to engage in discourse on the strengths or the shortcomings of
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historiography in Ecuador. What matters here is that almost all, if not all, publications and
doctoral dissertations in the Humanities and Social Studies on Ecuador are of interest and,
sooner or later, of importance to historians.
In closing, it cannot be over emphasized that the historiography of Ecuador, traditional as
well as modern, is much more abundant than many Ecuadorianistsincluding myself until I
undertook this workrealize.
A merican Studies (Madrid: Ediciones Mapfre, 1995; Cambridge: Harvard University Press,
19361951; Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 19511978; Austin: University of Texas
Press, 1980), the N ational Union Catalogindispensable for completing and verifying citations
of older materialsand for the increasing number of online public access catalogs (opacs)
available through Telnet.
I relied primarily on MELVYL and UTCAT and secondarily on SABIO and TOME.
MELVYL is the more-or-less integrated online catalog or system of the libraries of the
Universities of California and the California State Library. UTCAT is the online catalog or
system of the University of Texas at Austin. SABIO and TOME are the online catalogs or
systems of the University of Arizona and the University of New Mexico, respectively. MELVYL
and UTCAT were searched systematically (i.e., by authors, titles, subjects, and series). SABIO
and TOME were spot checked to flesh out incomplete records and to verify dubious citations
not found in MELVYL or UTCAT, sometimes successfully, sometimes in vain. (N.B. I ended
up limiting systematic research to Western opacs because accessing Eastern opacs proved to
be problematic, given the difference in time between Guam and the eastern half of the United
States and the amount of traffic on those systems. More often than not I could not get into
Eastern opacs, and when I did manage to connect, I would be bumped sooner or later during the
search session.)
As of May 9, 1996, the MELVYL system contained 5,628 not necessarily discrete records of
ecuatoriana. On that same day, there were 7,023 not necessarily discrete records relating to
Ecuador in the UTCAT system. The libraries of the University of Arizona and of the
University of New Mexico also have substantial holdings of ecuatoriana. Again as of May 9,
1996, a subject search of SABIO yielded 2,022 subjects, with 4,047 entries beginning with or
containing the descriptor Ecuador, and a subject search of TOME, 2,316 subjects, with 5,063
entries beginning with or containing the descriptor Ecuador. (There is nothing significant
about May 9, 1996; it just happens to have been the day it occurred to me to go online to obtain
these statistics.) Because many works have several subject headings and inasmuch as some
records are redundant because of discrepancies in description, the actual numbers of discrete
records of ecuatoriana in MELVYL, UTCAT, SABIO, and TOME are somewhat less than the
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A nthropology (Farmingdale, New York: Baywood, 1970); 5) HA PI, Hispanic A merican Periodicals
Index, vol. 1, 1970/1974 (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1975); 6)
Historical A bstracts (Santa Barbara: ABC Clio, 1955); 7) Public A ffairs International Service
Bulletin, but only for the years 19681990 (New York: Public Affairs Information Service,
19681990); and its successor (8), PA IS International in Print (New York: Public Affairs
Information Service, 1991); 9) Benito Snchez Alonso, Fuentes de la historia espaola e
hispanoamericana, 3 ed., corr. y puesta al da (3 v.; Madrid: Publicaciones de la Revista de
Filologa Espaola, 1952); and Snchez Alonsos successor (10), Historiografa y bibliografa
americanista, which has had a confusing history.2
Therefore it is probable that I have seen records of almost every North American and
European article in a book or periodical in the Humanities and the Social Sciences published on
Ecuador through December 1995, and in the majority of cases the actual texts thereof.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of every Latin American article in a book or periodical
published on Ecuador through December 1995, inasmuch as not all Latin American anthologies
and periodicals are abstracted or indexed. Of course over the years I have worked my way
through runs of many Ecuadorian periodicals and anthologies in the Humanities and the Social
Sciences, but I was unable to lay hands on some serials known to contain historical studies or all
issues of those serials I was able to consult.
In this regard, permit me to quote Bernard Lavall:
Por supuesto, la ambicin de todo trabajo de este tipo es la de ser lo ms completo
posible. Sin embargo, al mismo tiempo, no dej de acompaarnos el convencimiento
ntimo de que la meta propuesta, la exhaustividad, no era sino ilusoria y que al final no
faltarn algunos trabajos que, desgraciadamente, hayan escapado de nuestra vigilancia.3
And to add that I have already begun to prepare a supplement to Bibliografa histrica del Ecuador
not only to maintain it as current as possible, but also to add pre1996 publications of
significance that I was unable to include in this work.
Insofar as doctoral dissertations are concerned, in addition to the professional literature itself
and the above mentioned indexes and abstracts, I relied on the still useful, but regrettably
discontinued, bibliographies put out some years ago by University Microfilms International: 1)
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Latin A merica and the Caribbean: A Dissertation Bibliography, edited by Carl W. Deal (1977); 2)
Latin A merica and the Caribbean II: A Dissertation Bibliography, Marian C. Walters, editor (1980);
and 3) Latin A merica: A Catalog of Current Doctoral Dissertation Research (1983). Unfortunately,
the bibliographic descriptions, especially the collation statements, in UMI products are not
AACR2 compatible in every respect. But I had to accept the data as given in some instances
because I was unable to reconcile the differences in every case. Again it must be remembered
that I did not have access to OCLC.4
Doctoral dissertations available only from their authors have not been included, given the
difficulty in obtaining copies thereof. Unpublished licentiate or masters degree theses were also
excluded, not out of any sense of snobbery, but because bibliographic control of theses as
opposed to dissertations is still in the process of being established, and because I had already
embarked on an ambitious enough task.
A MATTER OF STYLE
In preparing this work, I have been guided by the principles of bibliographic description laid
down in: A nglo-A merican Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed., 1988 rev. (Chicago: American Library
Association; Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; London: Library Association Publishing
Limited, 1988); Joseph Gibaldi, MLA Handbook for W riters of Research Papers, 4th ed., (New
York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995);and T he Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed.
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), and therefore also in Kate L. Turabian, A Manual
for W riters of T erm Papers, T heses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., revised by John Grossman and Alice
Bennett (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). Not wholly satisfied with any of the
existing norms for bibliographic description, however, I decided to devise my own: a hybrid, as it
were, of the formats worked out by advocates of International Standard Bibliographic
Description, the editors of the Handbook of Latin A merican Studies, and some historians.
Although sui generis, the documentation system I employ is a variant of the Humanities style
(not of the author-date system).
N.B. Although Bibliografa histrica del Ecuador is AACR 2r compatible, I did not adopt the
A nglo-A merican Cataloging Rules format in whole nor accept AACR 2r records blindly for three
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reasons. In the first place, I saw no point in including statements of responsibility in the case of
works produced by one, two, or three authors. In the second place, AACR 2r is not always user
friendly. And in the third place, I felt and still feel it absurd to be bound by the errors of
omission and comission, especially those relating to main entry and name authority, in
AACR 2 and 2r records.
CITATION N U MBER: Each entry has been assigned a unique citation number,
beginning with 1. The citations numbers are given in boldface. Numbers combined with letters
have also been used for the purpose of keeping together series that constitute specific sets (e.g.,
the seven volume set on the restoration of the Iglesia y Convento Mayor de Santo Domingo
[entries 3989 and 3989a3989g] or the Libros de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito [entries 7066 and
7066a7066l]).
ORTHOGRAPHY: Diacritics have been respected. So too have the peculiarities of
spelling. The bibliographic particulars of works in European languages employing Roman
alphabets (including East European variants) have been transcribed as they appear. Statements
of responsibility, place of publication, and series statements, therefore, are given in the language
of the work, and as they usually appear in modern catalog records. Entries in Russian and
therefore in Cyrillic, however, have been transliterated. Apparently there are no works, at least
no original works, in Greek, Turkish, Hebrew, or Arabic on the history of Ecuador. Glottal
stops in American Indian languages have been transcribed as apostrophes (i.e., by the symbol ).
N AME OF AU THOR: Names are given in library catalog or inverted order (i.e., family
name[s], given name[s]). To have listed names in normal order (i.e., given name[s] followed
by family name[s]), as observed by the American Historical Association in the 3rd ed. of its
Guide to Historical Literature (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; 2 v.), would be cavalier
inasmuch as not everyone can be expected to know which is which, especially in the case of
compound names. Forms of names known to be preferred by individual authors and editors have
been respected for the most part. Fuller or more distinctive forms of names, however, have been
employed when needed to distinguish between one author and another. Cross references from
unused forms are given in the Indice de autores.
Ecuadorian and therefore Spanish usage has been preferred. Hence a work by Carlos de la
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Torre Reyes, for example, is entered under De la Torre Reyes, Carlos, not Torre Reyes, Carlos
de la. For name authority I have relied heavily on the cumulative author (corporate body as
well as personal) index to Bibliografa retrospectiva ecuatoriana e ndice acumulativo 19781985
(entry 20), and on the good offices of my friend and fellow bibliographer Dr. Miguel Daz Cueva,
who has been sharing his in-depth knowledge of ecuatoriana with me for more than thirty years.
DATES OF AU THOR: Dates of authors are given in the Indice de autores whenever I
have been able to ascertain them. The sources do not always agree as to the years of birth or
death for every author. In cases of discrepancy, the usually agreed-upon year(s) or the year(s)
Daz Cueva assures me to be correct have been preferred.
ATTRIBU TION OF AU THORSHIP: Anonymous works are entered under title. Works
published under a pseudonym are entered under the authors real name, when known. Linkage
is given in the Indice de autores. It has not been possible, however, to ascertain the identity of
every author who published under a pseudonym. I do not know, for example, who the Jorge
Juan was who wrote on the first fall of Velasco Ibarra and the early days of the Pez dictatorship
(entry 2471). Similarly, it has not been possible to establish fuller forms of names of all authors
who have the same first and last names in order to distinguish between them. Even middle
initials are not always distinctive. To wit, there are two Eduardo N. Martnez: Eduardo Nalo
Martnez and Eduardo Neptal Martnez.
WORKS BY THE SAME AU THOR: In a succession of works by the same author or
authors, the name of the author or names of the authors are given for each entry. Employment
of spaces or hyphens in lieu of names does not work well in a lengthy bibliography. To require
the reader to scan backward or upward in order to determine authorship of an entry is to impose
an unnecessary burden simply for the sake of adherence to style.
MAIN EN TRY: Scholars and librarians, including academic librarians, disagree as to
principles of primacy. Therefore a digression regarding main entry is in order. Works authored
by one person are entered under that persons name in inverted order. Works authored by two
or three persons are entered under the first person named under that persons name in inverted
order and under the second person or the second and third persons named in normal order,
separated by semicolons. I decided to employ semicolons rather than commas to separate
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authors because even native Spanish speakers sometimes confuse given and family names. No
less an authority than the Instituto Bibliogrfico Hispnico, for example, has mistaken Jorge
Juan Santacilia and Antonio de Ulloa de la Torre-Giral as brothers, simply because that Jorge
Juan did not use his matronymic.
Works authored by four or more persons are usually entered under the works title. Books
authored by four or more persons, therefore, are entered under title except for conference
proceedings, of which more in a moment. Articles authored by four or more persons are always
entered under title. Works issued by corporate bodies are also entered under title unless: 1) the
work deals with the corporate body itself or the corporate bodies involved; 2) the work is a law
or regulation; 3) the work is an official pronouncement of a corporate body; or 4) it is a work of
a collective nature reporting activities of conferences, expeditions, or events that can be defined
as corporate bodies. The rule of four or more applies to corporate bodies too. Also when I
lacked sufficient information to establish the responsible corporate body or was in doubt as to
whether the main entry should be under corporate body or title, entry under title was preferred.
(For a more complete discussion of the principles of main entry, see chap. 21 of the A ngloA merican Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed., 1988 rev.)
Conference and congress (including symposium) proceedings are entered under the
established name of the conference, congress, or symposium. Partial or session-specific
proceedings, however, are entered under the title of the corresponding publication, as are
conference and congress (including symposium) proceedings for which sufficient data are
lacking to establish the conference, congress, or symposiums name.
STATEMEN T OF RESPON SIBILITY: Inevitably, therefore, some statements of
responsibility have had to be included. Four or more authors are reduced to the first individual
or entity named, followed by the standard et al. within square brackets. Editor and translator
statements are usually transcribed literally, but superfluous information such as titles and
institutional affiliation have been omitted unless inclusion is needed for reasons of grammar.
Also some serial titles, especially generic titles such as Memoria or Revista, require linkage with
their corresponding institutions. So too do such generic series titles as Working papers.
Therefore, statements of responsibility have been added to serial and series titles on a need basis
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(see, for example, entries 496501), but instead of the space, solidus, space (i.e., / ) of
catalogers, a comma followed by a space between title and statement of responsibility has been
employed.
TITLE OF WORK CITED: Titles of articles, books, and dissertations are almost always
given in full. Only a few exceptionally long titles have been truncated. Titles of books and
serials are italicized. Titles of articles appear between quotation marks. Titles of unpublished
dissertations are neither italicized nor set off by quotation marks.
EDITION : The edition of the work cited follows the title or the statement of responsibility
in the case of a title main entry article or book, separated from the former or the latter by a
comma.
SERIAL TITLE: Serial titles are given in full and italicized.
PU BLICATION DATA: The volume or issue number, or both, are given for the serial in
which an article appears, followed by the year of publication within parentheses. Whenever
ascertainable, the corresponding month or season of publication is given too. The place of
publication, the name of the publisher, and the year(s) of publication are given for books
regardless of when they were published. In a few instances of pre1900 imprints, the publisher
has not been specified because it was not possible to ascertain this datum, not because some style
manuals permit the exclusion of imprint data for pre-twentieth-century publications. Who
published or printed a work prior to 1900 is just as important as who published or printed a work
after 1899, at least to bibliographers.
Angle brackets (i.e., the symbols < and >) are employed to designate temporary data in the
case of what were or appear to have been ongoing but not yet complete publications at the time
this bibliography was compiled. Every effort, however, has been made to close older records in
the case of completed sets, records that no doubt will continue to appear as ongoing in far too
many library catalogs.
PAGE N U MBERS: Inclusive page numbers for an article in a serial or a chapter in a book
are given after the date of publication in the case of an article in a serial and following the
publication data in the case of an article or chapter in a book. The number of pages in books
(i.e., separately printed monographs) and the number of volumes in multi-volume works are also
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given.
SERIES TITLES: Series titles have been kept to a minimum and are enclosed within
parentheses at the end of the bibliographic description. Associated institutions have been added
when needed to distinguish between generic titles.
AN ALYTICS: Authors and titles of specific contributions to anthologies and to
conference or congress proceedings are given together with page numbers, when known, in
contents or partial contents notes. Sometimes, however, author-specific entries are listed
separately. Of course this is to be stylistically or format inconsistent, but again the niceties of
style have been sacrificed in order to provide users with appropriate entries. Some
contributions just seem to belong together whereas others appear to warrant separate
attention. That may not be logical, but then there is little or no consistency in the world of
bibliography, merely agreed upon but not necessarily adhered to conventions.
ALPHABETICAL ORDER: Word-by-word file order has been observed. Single word
family names precede multiple word family names. Word spacing and punctuation have been
taken into account. Initial articles are respected whenever they constitute an integral part of a
personal name or of a place name (i.e., El Oro, La Paz, Los Ros, etc.). Insofar as initial letter is
concerned, traditional Spanish alphabetical order has been observed. Names, titles, subject
headings, and series beginning with Ch, Ll, or follow names, titles, subject headings, and
series beginning with C, L, or N. Works entered under a jurisdiction as a corporate body (e.g.,
Cuenca) are listed before works entered under a title or titles beginning with the same word as
the name of a place (e.g., Cuenca).
IN DEXES: Entries are indexed by author, subject, and series.
SU BJECT HEADIN GS: Modified Library of Congress subject headings have been
employed. The primary differences between orthodox Library of Congress subject headings and
my version thereof are: 1) a chronology somewhat different from what the Library of Congress
employs has been adopted, one more in keeping with how contemporary Ecuadorian scholars
view the watersheds in their past. Also I am more inclined to resort to chronological breakdown
by century rather than by such macro periods as To 1809. 2) I have employed the subject
headings Economic history and Social history, broken down by century(ies), rather than
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Economic conditions and Social conditions whenever appropriate. 3) Towns and villages
are identified by province inasmuch as not everyone can be expected to know, for example, that
Pucar is a small campesino community in southwestern Azuay. 4) Indgenas del Ecuador
instead of Indios de la Amrica del Sur Ecuador, has been used. Furthermore, ethnic
designates currently in use in Ecuador such as Shuar or Achuar instead of Jivaro Indians are
employed. See references are given in the Indice de encabezamientos de materias for readers
accustomed to other terminology.
NOTES
1
Bohdan S. Wynar, Introduction to Cataloging and Classification, 8th ed., [by] Arlene G. Taylor
americanos, debuting in vol. 10 (1953) of the A nuario (Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano
Americanos, 1944). Between 1971 and 1990, Historiografa y bibliografa americanista appeared
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first as an annual and then as a semiannual in its own right, changing its title to Suplemento de
A nuario de estudios americanos in 1987, and its enumeration at the same time to parallel that of
the A nuario. In 1993, Historiografa y bibliografa americanista returned to being a section of
the A nuario (50:1).
3
Bernard Lavall, Bibliografa francesa sobre el Ecuador (19681993): ciencias humans, sociales y
de la tierra (Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional: Maison des pays ibriques, 1995), p. 4.
4
Subsequent to the closure of the database, I was able to access WorldCat, the public access
module of OCLC. Although I was able to resolve some problems through the public access
module of OCLC, WorldCat is not always bibliographically helpful inasmuch as it does not
include statements of responsibility.
ABREVIACION ES
Abbreviations are those employed in A nglo-A merican Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed., 1988 rev.
(Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; London: Library Association Publishing Limited;
Chicago: American Library Association, 1988), and Reglas de catalogacin angloamericanas
(Washington, D.C.: Organizacin de los Estados Americanos; Costa Rica: Biblioteca,
Documentacin e Informacin, Universidad de Costa Rica, 1983). Spanish usage has been
preferred over English usage.
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BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
BIBLIOGRAFIAS
This section lists every bibliography of ecuatoriana in the Humanities, the Social
Sciences, and the Natural Sciences published before Jan. 1996 and for which I was
able to obtain or to establish a satisfactory description as of July 1997.
As of the late 1990s, the history of bibliography in Ecuador remained to be written. The
only attempt to establish some of the benchmarks was Alfredo Chavess still
indispensable 1958 Fuentes principales de la bibliografa ecuatoriana (item 54).
According to Chaves the first bibliography realizado en el Ecuador was Juan de
Velascos Ctalogo de algunos escritores antiguos y modernos del Per y Quito (Quito:
Impr. del Gobierno, 1885; 6 p.). However, Velascos Ctalogo was not a bibliography
per se but the bibliographic apparatus of his Historia del reino de Quito (item 1532),
reprinted from the original edition thereof (Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1841-1844; 3 v.).
It could be argued that the first Ecuadorian bibliography was the posthumously
published Bibliotheca americana (1964-1965) of Antonio de Alcedo (1736-1812). There
are difficulties with this contention too, however. Although quiteo born, Alcedo was a
Spaniard in every sense that mattered, and his subject was the Americas at large, not
his colony of birth. Nonetheless, his Bibliotheca americana (item 2) remains a major
source of information on sixteenth-, seventeenth-, and eighteenth-century publications
on the New World, including the future Ecuador.
The earliest bibliography of ecuatoriana per se therefore appears to be Nicols Anrique
Reyess 1891 Noticia de algunas publicaciones ecuatorianas anteriores a 1792 (item
8).
Bibliographic control of ecuatoriana also had yet and perhaps still remains to be
achieved. The Biblioteca General de la Universidad Central del Ecuador, however,
endeavored to register national publications in the second half of the 1970s (see items
9-11), and the Cuenca branch of the Banco Central del Ecuadors Centro de
Investigacin y Cultura made a comparable effort in the late 1970s and the 1980s (see
items 65, 12, and 20, in that order). Both attempts at bibliographic control were
commendable, but far from complete. Unfortunately, the Centro de Investigacin y
Culturas Anuario bibliogrfico ecuatoriano died with the 1987 issue. That I have been
unable to determine when the Biblioteca General de la Universidad Central del
Ecuadors Bibliografa ecuatoriana or the annual cumulation thereof (items 9-11)
ceased to be published is symptomatic of the lack of bibliographic control and of the
leaves.
A working bibliography of materials on the anthropology and archaeology of Ecuador.
4. Alvarado, Rafael. Indice de traducciones ecuatorianas, 2 ed. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1957. 54 p.
A reprint; originally published in: Revista, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 11:17 (1956),
349-388. Lists translations from Spanish into other European languages of national
works, mostly literary. The first edition appeared as: Indice de traducciones
ecuatorianas para el repertorio internacional de traducciones Index translation de la
UNESCO, Boletn de informaciones cientficas nacionales (Quito), 6:59 (1954), 505528.
5. Alzamora C., Luca. Ecuador, aspectos socio-econmicos: bibliografa, 2 ed.
Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1977. 212 p.
A revised and augmented edition of the authors: Ecuador, aspectos socio-econmicos
e integracin econmica: bibliografa. Quito: Seccin Publicaciones, JUNAPLA, 1976.
ii, 182 p. Both are bibliographies of materials on social and economic conditions.
6. Andrade Chiriboga, Alfonso. Hemeroteca azuaya. Cuenca: Edit. El Mercurio, 1950.
2 v.
A bibliography of nineteenth-century newspapers of Cuenca.
7. Andrade Marn, Luciano. La bibliografa geogrfica ecuatoriana y los gegrafos
ecuatorianos, Anales de la Universidad Central, 23:328 (1949), 19-38.
A bibliography of works on the geography of the country and of works by national
geographers.
8. Anrique Reyes, Nicols. Noticia de algunas publicaciones ecuatorianas anteriores a
1792. Santiago de Chile: Impr. Nacional, 1891. 23 p.
Apparently the first bibliography of ecuatoriana as well as the first bibliography of early
Ecuadorian imprints. It registered four Ambato and eleven Quito titles. Also published
in: Revista ecuatoriana, 4:3:39 (mar. 1892), 112-122.
9. Anuario bibliogrfico ecuatoriano 1975. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador,
Biblioteca General, 1976. 374 p.
10. Anuario bibliogrfico ecuatoriano 1976 y 1977. Quito: Universidad Central del
Ecuador, Biblioteca General, 1978. 427 p.
11. Anuario bibliogrfico ecuatoriano 1978 y 1979. Quito: Universidad Central del
Ecuador, Biblioteca General, 1981. 143 p.
Items 9-11 constitute a serial, the complete chronology of which remains to be
determined. Each vol. includes author, title, and subject indexes. The 1975 issue
appears to be vol. 1, and cumulates the first six issues of Bibliografa ecuatoriana, a
bimonthly that began with ao 1, no. 1 (ene./feb. 1975) and succumbed sometime
thereafter. The 1976-1977 issue corresponds to no. 8/9 of the Bibliografa ecuatoriana,
and the 1978-1979 issue to no. 10, if not no. 10/11. The annual cumulation--of which
the 1978-1979 issue (item 11) may have been the last published--is also defunct.
Together with its bimonthly counterpart this annual constituted a notable attempt to
establish control over national publications. Not related to items 12, 20, and 65.
12. Anuario bibliogrfico ecuatoriano ... 1982-1987. Cuenca: Banco Central del
Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1984-1991. 7 v.
Not to be confused with items 9-11. The Anuario for 1983 appeared in two vols.
Indispensable for materials published in the 1980s. Each vol. includes an author index.
Continues: Ecuador, bibliografa analtica (item 65). See also: Bibliografa retrospectiva
ecuatoriana (item 20).
13. Arcos, Gualberto. Aporte para la bibliografa del Archipilago de las Galpagos,
Anales de la Universidad Central, 56:296 (abr./jun. 1936), 629-644.
A bibliography of works on the Galpagos Islands. See also item 5849.
14. Ayala Mora, Enrique. Ecuador, The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. 11,
Bibliographic Essays, edited by Leslie Bethell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995), p. 826-832.
A revised version of the bibliographic essay that accompanies item 2223. Covers the
years since 1930.
15. Bkula, Juan Miguel. Per y Ecuador: tiempos y testimonios de una vecindad, 1
ed. Lima: CEPEI : FOMCIENCIAS, 1992. 3 v.
Vol. 1 (410 p.) is entirely given over to bibliography. References to many other
Peruvian and even more Ecuadorian publications are to be found in the notes to vols. 2
and 3, to which access may be had via the Indice onomstico at the end of vol. 3.
Vols. 2-3 also constitute a balanced, comprehensive, more or less objective, and
scholarly treatment of the boundary dispute between Ecuador and Peru, of the history
of the Upper Amazon Basin, and relations in general between the two countries by a
Peruvian intellectual. The author, a retired career diplomat, is respected in both
countries.
16. Barrera B., Jaime. Bibliografa para el estudio de la prehistoria ecuatoriana,
Anales de la Universidad Central, 58:299 (ene./mayo 1937), 99-149.
A bibliographic essay on the prehispanic period. Arranged chronologically. Reprinted
in: Indianistas, indianfilos, indigenistas (item 7946), p. 63-116.
17. Bayle, Constantino. Notas sobre bibliografa jesutica de Mainas, Missionalia
hispnica, 6:17 (1949), 277-317.
A bibliography of materials on the Jesuit missions of the colonial period in the Upper
Amazon Basin. The works in question are also studies of and sources on the
ethnography, geography, and history of the Oriente during the sixteenth, seventeenth,
and eighteenth centuries.
18. Bibliografa de autores ecuatorianos. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1978.
474 p.
Lists works of Ecuadorian authors held by the Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador.
19. Bibliografa de Pablo Muoz Vega, Cultura, 9:25 (mayo/ago. 1986), 121-143.
A register of writings of and on the twentieth-century cardinal archbishop of Quito.
20. Bibliografa retrospectiva ecuatoriana e ndice acumulativo 1978-1985. Cuenca:
Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1991. 400 p.
Supplements and provides a cumulative personal and corporate body author index to
Ecuador, bibliografa analtica (item 65) and Anuario bibliogrfico ecuatoriano (item 12).
Unfortunately the commendable efforts of the Cuenca branch of the Banco Centrals
Centro de Investigacin y Cultura to compile and publish continuing and retrospective
bibliographies of works published in and on the country were curtailed by the political
climate and economic crisis of the 1990s.
21. Bibliografa sobre administracin ecuatoriana y materias afines. Quito: Instituto de
Estudios Administrativos, Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1967. 95 p.
A bibliography of materials on public administration of/in Ecuador and related topics.
22. Bibliografa social, econmica y poltica del Ecuador. Quito: Junta Nacional de
Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, Seccin de Investigaciones Sociales, [1973].
2 v.
An important attempt to compile a national bibliography of social scientific materials,
including historical. Unfortunately this work suffers from incomplete descriptions and
misspellings of authorss names.
23. Bibliographie sur lEquateur = Bibliography on Ecuador. Paris: Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development, Development Centre, 1985. iii, 85 p.
Apparently a general bibliography; indicative of materials available in France.
24. Biblioteca de Autores Nacionales Carlos A. Rolando. XXV aniversario de la
fundacin de la Biblioteca de Autores Nacionales Carlos A. Rolando, 1913-1938.
Guayaquil: Impr. i Tall. Municipales, 1938. 104 p.
A list of works of national authors in this major collection.
25. Biblioteca de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad Central del Ecuador.
Catlogo de obras de la Biblioteca de la Facultad de Derecho. Quito: Edit.
Universitaria, 1957. 100 p.
A register of works in the Law Library of the Central University.
26. Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Plit. Diccionario bibliogrfico
ecuatoriano, dirigido por Julin G. Bravo Santilln con la colaboracin de Wilson C.
Vega Vega y Vctor H. Vaca Bravo. Quito: Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinos
Plit, 1989-<1999>. <8> v.
An exceptionally comprehensive bibliography of national authors as well as a catalog of
the largest collection of ecuatoriana in the world. It includes newspaper articles,
pamphlets, and other ephemera. Indexed by author, subject, and year of publication.
Not an easy tool to use, however, inasmuch as entries are entered by year of
publication under author rather than alphabetically by title under author. Furthermore,
authorss names are given only once, at the beginning of the list of his/her publications,
rendering this bibliography almost impossible to scan. Limited to materials held by the
Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Plit. Tomo 1, A-An, consists of 6,347
entries; t. 2, An-Ba, of 8,387 entries; t. 3, Ba-Cam, of 8,339 entries; t. 4, Ca-Coh, of
8,215 entries; t. 5, Col-Cor, of 6,333 entries; t. 6, Cos-CH, of 5,962 entries; t. 7, D-EC of
5,772 entries; t. 8, Ech-Esp of 4,593 entries.
27. Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador. Incunables y libros raros y curiosos de los siglos
XV, XVI, XVII y XVIII, de la seccin llamada Hispanoamericana. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1959. 108 p.
Describes pre-1800 separates, mostly European but also some early Ecuadorian
imprints, held by the National Library.
28. Boletn bibliogrfico ecuatoriano. Vol. 1, no. 1 (ene./mar., 1967)-v. 1, no. 2
(abr./jun. 1967). Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1967. 2 nos.
29. Bravo, Julin G. La bibliografa mariana de los siglos XVII y XVIII en la Audiencia
de Quito, Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 7 (1983), 83-115.
A major guide to Marian publications of the colonial period. At the same time a partial
guide to early Ecuadorian imprints. Also published as a separate: Quito: [s.n.], 1984.
56 p.
30. Bristow, Clement Roger. An Annotated Bibliography of Ecuadorian Geology.
London: H.M.S.O., 1981. ii, 38 p.
31. Bromley, R.J. Bibliografa del Ecuador: ciencias sociales, econmicas y
geogrficas. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1970.
61 p.
A bibliography of social scientific studies. Includes an author index. Also published:
Talence, France: Centre dtudes de gografie tropicale, 1970. (Travaux et documents
de gographie tropicale; no. 2)
32. Bueno C., Ricardo. Ensayo bibliogrfico de los escritos del Ilmo. y Rvdmo. Dr. Dn.
Federico Gonzlez Surez, arzobispo de Quito. Quito: Tip. de la Prensa Catlica,
1925. xxviii, 143 p.
An annotated guide to the writings of the archbishop historian. See also item 165. Also
published in a 2 ed.: Homenaje a la memoria del Ilmo. y Rvmo. Sr. Dr. D. Federico
Gonzlez Surez: ensayo bibliogrfico de sus obras y escritos. Quito: Impr. del
Ministerio de Gobierno, 1943. 149 p.
33. Crdenas Reyes, Mara Cristina. Jos Peralta y el liberalismo: anlisis
documental. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura,
1988. 319 p.
34. Crdenas Reyes, Mara Cristina. La produccin periodstica de Jos Peralta,
Revista IDIS, 18 (ene. 1988), 39-66.
reprinting year by year (see item 1801) and its editor, Francisco Mara Roca.
44. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Los primeros diarios de Guayaquil (1860-1884), Revista
de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 2 poca, 8:10 (1971), 5-30.
On the first daily newspapers in the port city.
45. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Los primeros peridicos guayaquileos: breve catlogo
bibliogrfico, Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 2 poca, 7:9 (dic. 1969/feb.
1970), 29-54.
Covers the years 1821-1830.
46. Catlogo de libros de filosofa en el Ecuador, Cultura, 2:4 (mayo/ago. 1979), 389415.
A list of philosophy books published in the country, by national authors, or on
Ecuadorian philosophy.
47. Ciudad de papel. 1 (ene. 1994)-. Quito: Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD,
1994-.
A bibliographic bulletin, mostly given over to materials on urbanization.
48. Clagett, Helen Lord. A Guide to the Law and Legal Literature of Ecuador.
Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1947. viii, 100 p.
Considerably dated but still useful.
49. Cordero Iiguez, Juan. Bibliografa cronolgico [de y sobre Honorato Vsquez],
Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 49 (1985), 29-61.
50. Cordero Iiguez, Juan. Bibliografa ecuatoriana de artesanas y artes populares.
Cuenca: Centro Interamericano de Artesanas y Artes Populares, 1980. xxii, 373 p.
Registers 999 items. Broader in coverage than the title implies. Well indexed.
51. Cordero Iiguez, Juan; and Bernarda Crespo Cordero. Bibliografa azuaya del
siglo XIX. Cuenca: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1989. 370 p.
A well done year by year listing of 3,701 items published in Cuenca and by cuencanos
elsewhere at one time or another in the 1800s. Annotated. Indexed by author and
subject matter. Exceptionally comprehensive inasmuch as the compilers included
broadsheets, periodical articles, and contributions to festschriften.
52. Corkill, David. Ecuador. Oxford, Eng.: Clio Press, 1989. xxi, 155 p. (World
Bibliographical Series; vol. 101)
Useful for general readers and beginning researchers, but too limited for post
baccalaureate or advanced research. Describes 557 items in the Humanities and the
Social Sciences. Each entry is annotated. Emphasizes English language and therefore
by default general Latin American, South American, and Andean materials rather than
Ecuadorian materials per se, reflecting the limited library holdings in Great Britain on
Ecuador. Indexed by authors, titles, and subjects.
53. Cueva, Juan Martn; and Monica Snchez. Bibliografa ecuatoriana sobre
pequea y mediana empresa. Quito: INSOTEC, Unidad de Investigaciones de Poltica
Industrial, Centro de Documentacin e Informacin, [1988?]. 134 p.
Indexed.
54. Chaves, Alfredo. Fuentes principales de la bibliografa ecuatoriana. Quito: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1958. 24 p.
The pioneering attempt to establish a bibliography of national, regional, and local
bibliographies. Relatively full yet curiously incomplete. But less than bibliographic
adequate control and the difficulty in laying hands on all appropriate publications have
to be taken into account.
55. Chaves, Alfredo. Primer registro bibliogrfico de artes plsticas en el Ecuador.
Quito: Impr. de la Universidad, 1942. [40] p. (i.e., p. 77-116).
Lists 302 articles and books.
Published together with: Jos Alfredo Llerena, La pintura ecuatoriana del siglo XX (item
3889).
56. Deas, Malcolm. Ecuador, The Cambridge History of Latin America, vol. 11,
Bibliographic Essays, edited by Leslie Bethell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1995), p. 474-476.
57. Deas, Malcolm. Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, The Cambridge History of
Latin America, vol. 11, Bibliographic Essays, edited by Leslie Bethell (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 274-283.
This and the preceding item are revised and updated bibliographic essays, the original
versions of which appeared in vols. 3 and 5 of The Cambridge History of Latin America
(items 2041 and 2396). They cite and evaluate literature on the first 100 years of the
national period (i.e., from 1830 through 1930).
58. Delaunay, Daniel. Demografa en el Ecuador, una bibliografa; Poblaciones de las
parroquias: Ecuador, 1950-1982. Quito: Centro Ecuatoriano de Investigacin
Geogrfica, 1985. 16, 69 p. (Documentos de investigacin, Centro Ecuatoriano de
Investigacin Geogrfica. Serie Demografa y geografa de la poblacin; no. 1-2)
The first title is a bibliography of demographic studies on the country. The second,
coauthored with Blanca Carrera and Juan Len, is a correction of the global results of
the 1950, 1962, 1974, and 1982 censuses.
59. Delgado Santos, Francisco. El libro en el Ecuador: situacin, perspectivas.
Bogot: Centro Regional para el Fomento del Libro en Amrica Latina y el Caribe,
1987. 65 p.
For a more recent commentary on the status of book publishing and the book trade in
the country see: Carl W. Deals Academic Publishing in Ecuador. Albuquerque:
SALALM Secretariat, General Library, University of New Mexico, 1994. 34 p. (Latin
American Information Series; 4)
Important because of the inclusion of some local and regional, not elsewhere registered
publications. Contents: vol. 1, Obras generales, precolonia, colonia, independencia y
Gran Colombia (iii, 117 leaves); vol. 2, Repblica, estructura del Estado (Poder
Ejecutivo), estructura del Estado (Poder Legislativo) (122 p.).
78. Fischer, Sabine. Bibliografa sobre la industria ecuatoriana, Revista ciencias
sociales (Quito), 5:15/16 (1984), 263-273.
79. Freire Rubio, Edgar. El autor y el libro ecuatorianos en 1992, Crnica del ro, 4/5
(sept. 1993), 93-101.
80. Freire Rubio, Edgar. Desde el mostrador del librero, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. Grijalbo
Ecuatoriana, 1990-<1996>. <3> v.
Vol. 1 subtitled: Lo que el pas edit desde junio de 1987 a julio de 1990, but includes
in appendix Lo que el Ecuador edit de agosto a diciembre de 1990. Vol. 2: Quito:
Fundacin Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales: Ediciones Abya-Yala. Vol. 3 subtitled: Lo
que el Ecuador edit desde enero de 1992 a diciembre de 1994; and published by:
Sistema Nacional de Bibliotecas, Subsecretara de Cultura, Ministerio de Educacin y
Cultura. Continues item 81.
81. Freire Rubio, Edgar. El libro nacional: ese desconocido: lo que el pas edit desde
enero de 1986 a junio de 1987. Guayaquil: Edit. de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1987.
91 p.
Items 80 and 81 are month-by-month listing of national publications of books and
periodicals issued between Jan. 1986 and Dec. 1995, and, therefore, a quasicontinuation of items 16, 20, and 65. Primarily useful as guides to what was/is being
published. Unfortunately, however, they do not include the majority of government
documents. Both items 80 and 81, however, do include insightful and informative
articles--originally published in El Comercio, Hoy, and La Hora as were the lists of
publications--on booksellers and the book trade in Ecuador.
82. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Bibliografa del periodismo nacional: adiciones,
Boletn de la Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador, nueva ser., 3 (mar./abr. 1926), 173-176.
Supplements item 83.
83. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Ensayo de bibliografa del periodismo en el
Ecuador, Boletn de la Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador, nueva ser., 1 (dic. 1925), 4686.
Items 82-83 are included here within for the sake of completeness. But they have long
since been superseded, especially by Ojeda (item 151).
84. Gondard, Pierre. Repertorio bibliogrfico de los trabajos realizados con la
participacin de ORSTOM: Ecuador 1962-1986 = Repertoire bibliographique des
travaux raliss avec la participation de lORSTOM: Equateur 1962-1986. Quito,
Ecuador and Montellier, France: ORSTOM, 1986. 69 p.
Also sometimes cited as: Ecuador 1962-1986: repertorio bibliogrfico de los trabajos
realizados con la participacin de ORSTOM = Equateur 1962-1986: repertoire
bibliographique des travaux realises avec la participation de lORSTOM. See also item
339.
85. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Bibliografa ecuatoriana: la imprenta en el Ecuador
durante el tiempo de la colonia, 1750-1792, Anales de la Universidad de Quito, 7:48
(jul. 1892), 269-279.
Registers 29 imprints. Superseded by Stols (item 187), but still important because it
reproduces in facsimile the title pages of said imprints. Also published as a separate:
Quito: Impr. de la Universidad, 1892. 36 p. And in: Revista ecuatoriana, 4:43 (jul.
1892), 265-279. See also vol. 7, chaps. 2 and 3 of the archbishop historians Historia
general (item 1388).
86. Graham, Ann. Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru. Austin: University of Texas at Austin,
General Libraries, 1978. 26 p. (Selected References Sources, University of Texas at
Austin. General Libraries; no. 33)
Considerably dated, but useful as an indicator of how little used to be available in the
United States, even at a major research library, on Ecuador.
87. Grijalva Cobo, Adriana; and Samuel Guerra Bravo, Bibliografa sobre Vicente
Rocafuerte, Cultura, 6:16 (mayo/ago. 1983), 417-430.
88. Gua bibliogrfica de geografa fsica del Ecuador, Pontificia Universidad Catlica
del Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Departamento de Ciencias Geogrficas.
Quito: Ediciones de la Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1990. 73 p.
Annotates articles, books, and reports published in the 1970s and 1980s. Broader in
coverage than the title implies. Includes an author index and an index by provinces.
89. Guzmn C., Jos H. Tecnologa agropecuaria del Ecuador. Cuenca: Grficas
Hernndez Ca. Ltda., 1988. 343 p.
An idiosyncratic bibliography of materials on Ecuadorian agriculture, based largely on
Guzmans own holdings. Describes many unpublished studies and sources.
90. Hamerly, Michael T. El antiguo Rejistro Municipal (1835?-1861) de Guayaquil,
Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 4:7 (jun. 1975), 64-70a.
Includes an issue by issue list.
91. Hamerly, Michael T. La demografa histrica del Ecuador, Per y Bolivia: una
bibliografa preliminar, Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 3:6 (dic. 1974), 24-63.
Includes some materials, especially published sources, not incorporated in this work.
92. Hampe Martnez, Teodoro. Sumaria bibliografa sobre los cronistas del Per,
Boletn de la Biblioteca Nacional (Lima), 40:93/94 (1985), 5-57.
Reviews and lists the original and the most important (in Hampe Martnezs view)
modern editions of the chronicles of the Spanish conquest of the Perus and of the civil
wars between the conquistadores.
93. Handelsman, Michael H. El modernismo en las revistas literarias del Ecuador,
See also: Solano de la Sala Veintemilla, Germn. Indice de folletos sobre temas
econmicos y sociales del Ecuador. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1991. 299 p.
(Fuentes para la historia econmica del Ecuador. Serie Indices de documentacin; 3)
102. Inventario de estadsticas demogrficas y socioeconmicas de la Repblica del
Ecuador. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1974. 57
p.
A useful guide to published and unpublished statistical compendia as of mid-1974.
103. Itzstein, Gertraud; and Heiko Prumers. Einfhrende Bibliographie zur Archologie
Ecuador = Bibliografa bsica sobre la arqueologa del Ecuador. Bonn: Seminar fr
Volkerkunde der Universitat Bonn, 1981. 110 p.
Lists approximately 1,200 studies of the prehispanic period published between 1900
and 1980.
104. Jaramillo, Miguel Angel. Bibliografa de Honorato Vzquez, Revista del Centro
de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 19 (jun. 1931), 290-309.
105. Jaramillo, Miguel Angel. Bibliografa quitea, Gaceta municipal (Quito), 19:79
(oct./dic. 1934), 7-29.
106. Jaramillo, Miguel Angel. Ensayo de bibliografa nacional. Cuenca: Impr.
Municipal, 1925. 43 p.
107. Jaramillo, Miguel Angel. Exposicin del libro azuayo: indice bibliogrfico.
Cuenca: Impr. de la Universidad, 1939-1940. xiv, 142 p.
Also published in: Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca,
33/34 (1939/1940), 80-230.
108. Jaramillo, Miguel Angel. Indice bibliogrfico de la Biblioteca Jaramillo de
Escritos Nacionales. Cuenca: Impr. de la Universidad, 1932. ii, 355 p.
109. Jaramillo, Miguel Angel. Indice bibliogrfico de las revistas de la Biblioteca
Jaramillo de Escritos Nacionales. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo
del Azuay, 1953. 180 p.
Items 108 and 109 are catalogs of books by national authors and of national periodicals
in the Jaramillo collection, now part of the Biblioteca de la Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay. N.B. Item 109 is an issue by issue account.
110. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Bibliografa cientfica del Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1948-1953. 5 v. in 1.
Vols. 2-5 paged continuously. Registers 8,732 items. Covers through 1946. Contents:
t. 1, Geografa, descripciones generales, viajes, datos estadsticos; t. 2, Geologa,
petrografa, mineraloga, paleontologa, vulcanologa, botnica y zoologa; t. 3,
Antropologa, etnografa, arqueologa, lingstica, folklore, prehistoria, historia antigua;
t. 4, Historia general, historia de la cultura, historia eclesistica, cuestiones polticas,
etc.; t. 5, Apndices e indices.
111. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Bibliografa cientfica del Ecuador, 2 ed. Madrid:
Ediciones Cultura Hispanica, 1952. 492 p.
Registers 9,300 items. Advanced coverage through 1949.
112. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Bibliografa cientfica del Ecuador: antropologa,
etnografa, arqueologa, prehistoria, lingistica, 3 ed. Quito: Corporacin de Estudios
y Publicaciones, 1968. 289 p.
Covers anthropological and related publications through 1966. Registers 2,235 items.
Indexed by subject. Only vol. of third ed. issued.
113. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Bibliografa de Cristbal de Gangotena y Jijn, Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 34:83 (ene./jun. 1954), 122-127.
A comprehensive listing of Gangotena y Jijns publications, of which there appear to
have been 72 altogether. Gangotena y Jijns genealogies are especially important
inasmuch as they were based on considerable original research and his own private
collection, rich in manuscript originals and coeval copies.
114. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Bibliografa de Gabriel Garca Moreno: en el centenario
de su asesinato, 1875-1975, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 58:125
(ene./jun. 1975), 130-150.
Also published as a separate: Quito: Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1975.
43 p. And reprinted as Bibliografa de y sobre Gabriel Garca Moreno, Bibliografa
ecuatoriana, 7 (1976), 80-95.
115. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Bibliografa histrica ecuatoriana: publicaciones hechas
en 1953, Museo Histrico, 6:20 (jun. 1954), 56-73.
Lists 68 items. Annotated. Also published in: Boletn de informaciones cientficas
nacionales, 6:60 (mayo/abr. 1954), 609-632.
116. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Dos incunables ecuatorianos y algunos rarsimos
impresos coloniales en Lima, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 27:69
(ene./jun. 1947), 91-95.
Added a previously unknown 1759 Ambato imprint to the registry.
117. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Ms incunables americanos y otros seis impresos
coloniales en Lima, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 27:70 (jul./dic. 1947),
297-305.
Added a 1757 Ambato and eleven early Quito imprints to the registry.
118. Larrea Holgn, Juan. Bibliografa jurdica del Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1970. 178 p.
Registers 2,153 items. Indexed.
119. Larrea Holgn, Juan. Bibliografa jurdica del Ecuador, 2 ed. Quito: Corporacin
de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1974. 321 p.
Registers 4,040 items. Poorly proofed. Indexed.
120. Larrea Holgn, Juan. Bibliografa jurdica del Ecuador, 3 ed. Guayaquil: EDINO,
1993. 634 p.
Registers 6,319 items. Thematically organized. Subject indexed.
121. Lavall, Bernard. Bibliografa francesa sobre el Ecuador (1968-1993): ciencias
humanas, sociales y de la tierra. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional; [Paris]: Maison
des pays ibriques, 1995. 156 p.
Registers 1,479 works published in France on Ecuador in the Humanities, the Social
Sciences, and the Natural Sciences between and inclusive of 1968 and 1993. Indexed.
122. Ledergerber C., Paulina. Tesis en antropologa ecuatoriana aprobadas por
universidades del Canad y Estados Unidos, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana,
3:3 (1983), 213-217; 6:6 (1986), 189-191.
A useful but incomplete listing.
123. Len, Luis A. Bibliografa nacional y extranjera sobre el indio ecuatoriano,
Cuestiones indgenas del Ecuador, (item 7938), p. 263-302.
A 1946 bibliography. Registers 571 items.
124. Len, Luis A. Bibliografa sobre enfermedad de Chagas en el Ecuador, Carlos
Chagas (1879-1934) y la tripanosomiasis americana (Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Seccin Ciencias Biolgicas, 1980), p. 63-71.
125. Libros y bibliotecas: revista trimestral de biblioeconoma. Ao 1, no. 1 (mar.
1939)-? Guayaquil: Impr. y Tall., Municipales, 1939-?
Organo de la Biblioteca de Autores Nacionales Carlos A. Rolando. his periodical
ceased to be published some years ago, but I was unable to ascertain the particulars of
its demise.
126. Luzuriaga, Gerardo A. Bibliografa del teatro ecuatoriano, Cultura, 5:13
(mayo/ago. 1982), 227-232.
127. Luzuriaga, Gerardo A. Bibliografa del teatro ecuatoriano, 1900-1982. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1984. 131 p.
128. Luzuriaga C., Carlos; and Clarence Zuvekas, Jr. An Annotated Bibliography of
Income, Income Distribution, and Levels of Living in Rural Ecuador. Washington, D.C.:
Rural Development Division, Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, Agency for
International Development, 1979. x, 97 p.
A preliminary version of item 129.
129. Luzuriaga C., Carlos; and Clarence Zuvekas, Jr. Income Distribution and Poverty
in Rural Ecuador, 1950-1979: A Survey of the Literature. Tempe: Center for Latin
American Studies, Arizona State University, 1983. xiii, 238 p.
Not only surveys but also reviews and interprets the literature on income distribution
and levels of living in rural Ecuador since 1950 (p. xiii). Therefore a major portrait of
socioeconomic conditions as well as an analysis of the corresponding literature,
including some government documents not here within listed. See especially chap. 6,
Case Studies (p. 99-164). Unfortunately this data rich study is not indexed.
130. Madera, Luis F. Peridicos ibarreos. Ibarra: Tip. El Comercio, 1927. 34 p.
131. Madero Moreira, Mauro; and Francisco Parra Gil. Indice de la bibliografa mdica
ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Edit. del Ncleo del Guayas de la Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1971. xxvi, 493 p.
A comprehensive bibliography of medical materials. Indispensable for research on
history of medicine and related topics. Lists 6,663 articles published between 1883 and
1968, by subject and author, and approximately 1,500 books published between 1785
and 1968, by author.
132. Maiguashca, Juan. Bibliografa selectiva de historia econmica del Ecuador:
dividida en pocas y rea temticas, desde 1521 hasta 1910, Historia econmica en
Amrica Latina, 1 ed. (Mxico: SepSetentas, 1972), vol. 2, p. 197-213.
See also item 254.
133. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Autobibliografa del Sr. Dr. Ricardo Mrquez Tapia.
Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1967. 137 p.
A bare bones listing of the writings, including unpublished, of the prolific Mrquez Tapia,
a physician turned historian, and of Ezequiel Mrquez, his father.
134. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Bibliografa ecuatoriana: bosquejo preliminar, Revista
del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 1 (ene. 1921), 280-287.
135. Maxwell, Michael B. Bibliografa del Instituto Lingstico de Verano en el Ecuador
1950-1980: con suplemento 1981-1985, 2 ed. Quito: Instituto Lingstico de Verano,
1985. 67 p.
Inasmuch as the Summer Institute of Linguistics was expelled from the country in the
early 1980s, probably a complete listing of its work in Ecuador. 1 ed.: Quito: Instituto
Lingstico de Verano, 1980.
136. Medina, Jos Toribio. La imprenta en en [sic] Quito (1760-1818): notas
bibliogrficas. Santiago de Chile: Impr. Elzeviriana, 1904. 86 p.
Registers 43 items. Superseded by Stols (item 187). Most recent reprint as of July,
1997: Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1964.
137. Medina, Jos Toribio. Noticias bibliogrficas, referentes a las primeras
producciones de la imprenta en algunas ciudades de la Amrica Espaola: (Ambato,
Angostura, Curazao, Guayaquil, etc.). Santiago de Chile: Impr. Elzeviriana, 1904. xii,
116 p.
Registers six Ambato titles and two putative Guayaquil items, the first of which definitely
was not printed in the port city as Medina suspected.
138. Mesa, Rosa Quintero. Ecuador. Ann Arbor: Xerox University Microfilms, 1973.
xxxii, 142 p. (Latin American Serial Documents; vol. 8)
180. Ruiz, Lucia; and Nancy Snchez. Pobreza urbana en el Ecuador: bibliografa
nacional, 1 ed. Quito: UNICEF: CIUDAD, Centro de Investigaciones, 1994. 239 p.
As of July 1997, the most comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography on urban poverty,
especially in Guayaquil and Quito and the major secondary cities.
181. Ruiz, Silvana. Bibliografa seleccionada para el estudio de aspectos urbanos en
el Ecuador: el caso de Quito. Quito: Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD, 1981. iv, 66
p.
182. San Cristval, Evaristo. Bibliografa, la controversia limtrofe entre el Per y el
Ecuador. Lima: Librera e Impr. Gil, 1937. 113 p.
Issued in fascicules. Therefore not all copies may be complete. A bibliography of
studies and published sources on the boundary dispute between Ecuador and Peru.
183. San Martn Caro, Alejandro; and Rafael Caro. Relaciones peruano-ecuatorianas:
gua bibliogrfica de las publicaciones existentes en las bibliotecas de acceso pblico
de Lima. Lima: Centro Peruano de Investigaciones Internacionales, 1985. 62 p.
A useful guide to materials on Ecuadorian and Peruvian relations in libraries open to
the public in Lima, but not nearly as comprehensive as Juan Miguel Bkulas Per y
Ecuador (item 15).
184. Schwab, Federico. Algunos peridicos desconocidos del Per, Ecuador y
Bolivia, Fnix (Lima), 4 (2 sem. 1945), 894-909.
185. Sheppard, George. Bibliografa de la geologa del Ecuador, Anales de la
Universidad Central, 46:276 (1931), 285-298.
Lists 104 items.
186. Smith, Ronna. Prosa de Ortiz: bibliografa, Cultura, 6:16 (mayo/ago. 1983), 197210.
A bibliography of the prose writings of Adalberto Ortiz (1914-).
187. Stols, Alexandre A.M. Historia de la imprenta en el Ecuador de 1755 a 1830.
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1956. xv, 261 p.
A model as well as comprehensive but not exhaustive bibliography of early Ecuadorian
imprints (275 books and 29 periodicals). In this regard, it should be noted that there are
a considerable number of pre-1831 publications in archives, libraries, museums, and
private collections in Guayaquil, Cuenca, and elsewhere not seen by or known to Stols,
who apparently limited his research to Quito. Nonetheless, it cannot be
overemphasized that Stolss work is the most complete bibliography of early
ecuatoriana that had been attempted as of July 1997. It is also technically sound.
188. Uhle, Max. Bibliografa ampliada sobre etnologa y arqueologa del Ecuador,
Anales de la Universidad Central del Ecuador, 42:267 (1929), 53-83.
Revises and updates item 189.
189. Uhle, Max. Bibliografa sobre etnologa y arqueologa del Ecuador, Anales de la
Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where this work was done, had not collected
systematically or well on Ecuador. Lacks a country index.
198. Welch, Thomas L. The Indians of South America: A Bibliography. Washington,
D.C.: Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of American States, 1987. xii, 594 p.
199. Welch, Thomas L.; and Ren L. Gutirrez. Bibliografa de la literatura
ecuatoriana. Washington, D.C.: Biblioteca Coln, Organizacin de los Estados
Americanos, 1989. xii, 291 p.
Beware the pitfalls in this and the preceding item. Unpublished theses, for example,
are described as though they were published works. Nonetheless, both list many
important and sometimes obscure materials.
200. Wiles, Dawn Ann. Some Geographical Aspects of Ecuador: An Annotated Critical
Bibliography of Periodical and Serial Literature. Baton Rouge: Institute of Latin
American Studies, Louisiana State University, 1970. 50 p.
A substantial register of pre-1970 articles on the geography of Ecuador.
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
LA REPUBLICA (1830-)
This section is given over to those works that treat one or more aspects of the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries, including those that are concerned with developments of the late 1800s and
the early 1900s.
Once again I must stress that it was not always possible to assign studies to their proper
chronological, regional, or thematic category on the basis of data base, especially library, subject
headings. The subject headings economic conditions and social conditions, for example,
utilized by the Library of Congress and academic libraries in the United States and elsewhere in
the world to refer to works on economic and social history as well as to works on
contemporary or recent economic and social developments are not always helpful and
sometimes misleading, especially when said subject headings are not accompanied by
chronological subdivisions. It does not help either when cataloguers, abstracters, and indexers
utilize country wide subject headings instead of specifying the region, province, canton, city or
town to which the study is delimited or with which it is primarily concerned. Therefore once
again my apologies in advance to the reader for the inconvenience this may cause insofar as the
occasional inappropriate assignation of materials is concerned and to authors such as Andrs
Guerrero, whom I have come to hold in very high regard as a scholar, for scattering his studies
unnecessarily all over this bibliography. His La semntica de la dominacin (item 1937), for
example, properly belongs under Historia regional y estudios relacionados: Sierra centro-norte
as do the majority of his other works.
1898. Abad Franco, Armando. Parteiensystem und Oligarchie in Ecuador. Berlin: ColloquiumVerlag, 1974. 283 p.
A socioeconomic study of the party system and of the role played by the elite in national politics
from the 1830s through the 1960s.
1899. Acosta Espinosa, Alberto. Breve historia econmica del Ecuador. Quito: Corporacin
Editora Nacional, 1995. 262 p.
A survey of the economic history of the national period.
1900. Acosta Espinosa, Alberto. La deuda externa: una historia de la deuda externa
ecuatoriana. Quito: Grupo de Trabajo sobre Deuda Externa y Desarrollo, ALOP-CAAPCECCA-CERG-CIUDAD, 1990. 386 p.
A useful introduction to the history of the external debt from 1830 through 1990. Written for
non-specialists. See also the 3 ed. rev. y actualizada: Quito: Edit. El Duende, 1990. 415 p.
1901. Araujo, Angel F. Episodios de campaa y relatos histricos. Quito: Impr. Nacional,
1922. 68 p.
The memoirs of a participant in the civil wars of 1882-1895.
1902. Arzaga, Rafael Mara. Labores legislativas, 1887-1909, recopilacin y notas de Carlos
Arzaga Vega. Cuenca: Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 1958. 352 p.
Consists primarily of the authors speeches and participation in congressional debates and
discussions.
1903. Armada del Ecuador. Una historia, una epopeya, un reto. Quito: Armada del Ecuador,
1981. 108 p.
A history of the Navy.
1904. La Armada en imgenes, recopilacin y coordinacin, Jenny Estrada R. Guayaquil:
Armada del Ecuador, Instituto de Historia Martima, 1987. 1 v.
To the best of my knowledge, this set died with vol. 1.
1905. Arosemena, Guillermo. Ecuador, evolucin y bsqueda del despegue econmico, 18301938. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1992. 378 p.
A data rich but methodologically unsophisticated history of economic crises during the first 108
years of the national period.
1906. Ayala Mora, Enrique. Estudios sobre historia ecuatoriana. Quito: Tehis: Iadap, 1993.
152 p.
A set of miscellaneous essays on various events and developments of the nineteenth and earlytwentieth centuries.
1907. Ayala Mora, Enrique. Los partidos polticos en el Ecuador: sntesis histrica. Quito:
Ediciones La Tierra, 1986. 83 p.
An insightful review of the political history and of the political parties of Ecuador from the early
nineteenth century through the recent present, with an emphasis on developments of the second
half of the twentieth century, by a leading political historian. See also: 2 ed. actualizada. Quito:
Ediciones La Tierra, 1989. 94 p.
1908. Azanza J., F. Alberto. La depreciacin monetaria en el Ecuador, Boletn del Ministerio
del Tesoro (Quito), 1:2 (1945), 28-38.
A quantitative study of the devaluation of the national currency between 1830 and 1943.
1909. Azanza J., F. Alberto. El presupuesto nacional a travs de 115 aos, Boletn del
Ministerio del Tesoro (Quito), 2:5 (1946), 1-136.
A quantitative study of the national budget, 1830-1945.
1910. Baca Bartelotti, Washington. Radiografa del Estado ecuatoriano, 1 ed. Quito: El
Duende, 1991. 160 p.
1911. Banco del Ecuador. Historia de medio siglo, 1868-1918. Guayaquil: Impr. de El
1921. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo. Estadsticas de sangre, Panoramas (Mxico, D.F.), 3:18
(1965), 69-102.
An attempt to quantify civil strife from the 1830s through the mid 1960s.
1922. Crespo Toral, Remigio. Cien aos del Ecuador-Repblica, Amrica (Quito), 9:58
(nov./dic. 1934), 357-384.
1923. Crespo Toral, Remigio. La conciencia nacional y otros estudios sobre historia, seleccin
y prlogo por el P. Julin Bravo. Quito: Grupo Aymesa, 1994. 568 p. (Biblioteca Grupo
Aymesa; 11)
Brings together almost all, of not all, of Crespo Torals publications on the independence period
and on Garca Moreno.
1924. Chiriboga, Luca; and Silvana Caparrini. Identidades desnudas: Ecuador 1860-1920: la
temprana fotografa del indio de los Andes, estudio introductorio Mathas L. Abram, 1 ed.
Quito: ILDIS: Ediciones Abya-Yala: Taller Visual, 1994. 144 p.
1925. Deler, Jean-Paul. Transformaciones regionales y organizacin del espacio nacional
ecuatoriano entre 1830 y 1930, Historia y regin en el Ecuador, 1830-1930 (item 6591), p. 295353.
A masterful survey of infrastructure and structural changes at the regional level and of the
gradual integration of the nation as a country and as a state during the first 100 years of the
republican period.
1926 La Deuda externa del Ecuador, estudio introductorio y seleccin de Francisco Swett.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1981. 488 p. (Biblioteca
bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 12)
An anthology of position papers by Emilio Mara Tern, Antonio Flores, and Eloy Alfaro.
1927. Ecuador. Presidencia. Recopilacin de mensajes dirijidos por los presidentes y
vicepresidentes de la Repblica, jefes supremos y gobiernos provisorios a las convenciones y
congresos nacionales desde el ao de 1819 hasta nuestros das, por Alejandro Noboa.
Guayaquil: Impr. de El Tiempo [etc.], 1900-1908. 5 v.
Published the official messages of the heads of states to Congress and national conventions.
Covers the years 1819-1906.
1928. El Ecuador en cien aos de independencia, 1830-1930, J. Gonzalo Orellana [editor].
Quito: Escuela Tipogrfica Salesiana, 1930. 2 v.
A multi-authored history of the first century of the national period. Includes sections on the state
of provinces, cantons, and cities (vol. 1, p. 295-438) and a section on La organizacin
econmica de la repblica (vol. 1, p. 439-452) as well as a number of essays--here within listed
separately--on political, diplomatic, military, cultural, and ecclesiastical events and
developments.
1929. Elecciones y democracia en el Ecuador. Quito: Tribunal Supremo Electoral; Corporacin
Editora Nacional, 1989-1990. 5 v.
Provides detailed analyses of elections and the electoral process from the 1830s through the
1980s.
Contents: vol. 1, El Proceso electoral ecuatoriano (186 p.); vol. 2, Los Partidos polticos en el
Ecuador (350 p.); vol. 3, Los Resultados electorales en Ecuador (294 p.); vol. 4, Anlisis de los
procesos electorales (230 p.); vol. 5, Legislacin electoral ecuatoriana (291 p.).
1930. Escritores polticos. Puebla: Edit J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1960. 694 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana
mnima; [16])
Consists of selections from the writings of Vicente Rocafuerte, Gabriel Garca Moreno, Antonio
Borrero, Eloy Alfaro, Juan Benigo Vela, and Jos Peralta.
1931. Espinosa, Roque. Hacienda, comunidad y concertaje en el Ecuador, Cultura, 7:19
(mayo/ago. 1984), 135-209.
A ground breaking essay on economic and social relationships between haciendas, debt peonage,
and Indian communities in the 1800s and early 1900s.
1932. Espinoza, Leonardo. La influencia de 1830 en el desarrollo republicano del Ecuador,
Cultura, 2:6 (ene./abr. 1980), 229-258.
A stimulating reexamination of demographic, economic, and political cycles and trends in postindependence Ecuador. See also the Crticas y comentarios thereupon (ibid., p. 259-275).
1933. Etnia, poder y diferencia, Jos Snchez-Parga [et al.]. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1990.
215 p.
Consists of six essays, three by Jos Snchez-Parga, and the other three by Fernando Guerrero,
Maxime Haubert, and Roberto Santana, respectively, on various aspects of relationships between
the state and other power groups on the one hand and ethnic groups, especially indigenous, in the
highlands on the other, during the national period.
1934. Fuentealba, Gerardo. La sociedad indgena en las primeras dcadas de la repblica:
continuidades coloniales y cambios republicanos, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 8,
p. 45-77.
A seminal essay on fiscal and labor exactions imposed on indigenes between 1830 and 1895, on
how native Andeans governed themselves, on the question of communes, and on indigenous
uprisings. Reflects some original research and considerable thought.
1935. Galarza Izquierdo, Luis. Ensayo poltico sobre clases sociales y partidos polticos en el
Ecuador. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, Facultad de Jurisprudencia, 1984. 238 p.
1936. Gonzlez Pez, Miguel Angel. Memorias histricas: gnesis del liberalismo, su triunfo y
sus obras en el Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1934. viii, 638 p.
An eyewitness account of the years 1867-1912. The author was a prominent member of the
Partido Conservador.
1937. Guerrero, Andrs. La semntica de la dominacin: el concertaje de indios, 1 ed. Quito:
Ediciones Libri Mundi Enrique Grosse-Luemern, 1991. 336 p.
Descriptive and interpretative but not hung up on paradigms. Instead Guerrero attempts to
reconstruct the realities of life on the great estates of the northern highlands in the late-nineteenth
and early-twentieth centuries, especially insofar as peones conciertos and after the de jure but not
de facto abolition of concertaje in 1918, huasipungeros are concerned. One of the critical points
that Guerrero makes is that although conciertos/ huasipungeros were homologous juridically-one might almost say institutionally--their lifestyles, family situations, relationships with the
patrn, socioeconomic status, etc. varied considerably, depending primarily on whether they
were members of an ongoing community of a hacienda (large estate) or temporarily and
individually attached, to a finca, quinta, cuadra, or huerto (medium or small estate). Guerrero
also recognizes that situaciones sociales concretas of conciertos/huasipungeros varied
spacially and temporally, and from hacienda to hacienda (regardless of size) or patrn to patrn
inasmuch as there were good as well as bad masters. Based on field work (including oral
interviews), archival research, appropriate literature (including theoretical), and records of large
estates in the valleys of Cayambe, Chillos, and Quito. Supposed to have had al final de este
libro las referencias documentales sobre los libros de hacienda utilized by Guerrero, but,
unfortunately, the corresponding bibliography nowhere appears. Notwithstanding this editorial
defect, a well written and argued, unusually informative, exceptionally insightful study that
considerably advances knowledge and understanding of the rural history of the region during the
period in question.
1938. Hidalgo, Daniel B. Evolucin poltica del Ecuador: estudio histrico-jurdico sociolgico
de las constituciones de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1917. 145
p.
1939. Hurtado, Osvaldo. El poder poltico en el Ecuador, 9a ed. Quito: Letraviva-Edit. Planeta
del Ecuador, 1993. xix, 417 p.
An outstanding political history of the national period by one of the writer/makers of recent
history. A professionally trained social scientist, Hurtado is also active in politics, having been a
president of the country. This work is doubly important because Hurtado endeavored to establish
a model of Ecuadors development based on endogenous experience rather than exogenous
paradigm. This edition includes a new introductory essay and name and subject indexes.
Originally published: Quito: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1977. 312 p. The
original Spanish edition was also published in a English version with revisions as: Political
power in Ecuador, translated by Nick D. Mills, Jr., 1st English ed. Albuquerque: University of
New Mexico Press, 1980. xxvi, 398 p; and in an encore ed.: Boulder: Westview Press, 1985.
xxxix, 398 p. For critical evaluations see: Enrique Ayala Mora, Felipe Burbano de Lara, and
Simn Espinosa Corderos El poder poltico en el Ecuador, de Osvaldo Hurtado, vigsimo
aniversario, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 10 (I sem. 1997), 107-122.
1940. Hurtado, Osvaldo. El sistema poltico en el Ecuador, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item
615), vol. 13, p. 99-167.
A prcis of item 1939.
1941. Imgenes e imagineros: representaciones de los indgenas ecuatorianos, siglos XIX y XX,
Blanca Muratorio, editora. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador,
1994. 293 p.
An anthology of original essays that focus on the perception and description of indigenes on the
one hand, and the reaction thereto and treatment thereof, on the other. A major contribution to
the intellectual and political as well as social history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
1942. Iturralde G., Diego A. Nacionalidades indgenas y el Estado Nacional, Nueva historia
del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 13, p. 9-58.
An insightful and thought provoking review of the various ways in which the state has sought to
deal with the Indian problem from the Spanish conquest through the late-twentieth century-with an emphasis on the 1900s--and of efforts by various ethnic groups, especially in the
highlands and the Oriente, to survive, and in the 1980s and 1990s, to reassert themselves as
separate nationalities and therefore also as polities in their own right.
1943. Libro del sesquicentenario. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1980-1983. 4 v.
An exceptionally important set on the first 150 years of the national period. Each vol. consists of
separately authored essays on various aspects of politics and government, art and culture, and
economic events and developments. Sometimes described separately although clearly conceived
of and published as a whole. Vol. 4 includes author, subject, personal name, and place name
indexes for the entire set. Contents: vol. 1, Poltica y sociedad: Ecuador, 1830-1980; vol. 2, Arte
y cultura: Ecuador, 1830-1980; vol. 3-4, Economa: Ecuador, 1830-1980.
1944. Linke, Lilo. Ecuador, Country of Contrasts, 3rd ed. London: Oxford University Press,
1960. ix, 193 p.
A perspicacious introduction to the history of and to mid-twentieth-century Ecuador and its
peoples by a long time foreign resident. Has rightly became a classic. The first edition appeared
in 1954.
1945. Macas, Washington. Ecuador, de la agroexportacin a la industrializacin asociada,
1830-1986. [Ecuador? <i.e., Quito>]: Ecuatextos, [1986?]. 134 p. (Coleccin Problemas socio
econmicos del Ecuador)
Notwithstanding the question marks that North American cataloguers have added to the country
and year of publication, it is known that this book was published in Ecuador, in Quito to be
specific, and it is highly probable that the year of publication was 1986. A crudely reproduced
work; it looks like photocopy in places. More importantly it is a high school text--a not
insignificant consideration that North American catalog records overlook. A somewhat useful
outline of economic developments and events from Ecuadors separation from Colombia through
the beginning of the Febres Cordero administration, nonetheless, notwithstanding Macass
Marxist approach.
1946. Maier, Georg. Presidential Succession in Ecuador, 1830-1970, Journal of
Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 13:3/4 (July/Oct., 1971), 475-509.
Delineates the succession of national leaders from 1830 through 1970.
1947. Maloney F., Gerardo. El negro y la cuestin nacional, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item
615), vol. 13, p. 59-98.
Attempts to establish the role of blacks in the history of Ecuador from the Spanish conquest
through the recent present. Reads more like a series of notes than an essay.
1948. Matamoros Jara, Carlos. Breves apuntes sobre las monedas en el Ecuador, Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 5:7 (1937), 317-341.
Abstracts legislation of Colombia (1821-1830) and Ecuador (1831-1937) regarding emission,
value, convertibility, and regulation of coinage.
1949. Moncayo, Abelardo. Aoranzas, introduccin por Po Jaramillo Alvarado. Puebla,
Mxico: Cajica, 1967. 2 v.
Reprint; originally published: Quito, 1923. A convenient anthology of otherwise difficult to
obtain, mostly ephemeral writings of a Liberal intellectual and collaborator of Eloy Alfaro.
Contents: P. Jaramillo Alvarado, Don Abelardo Moncayo y su poca, (1923); El doctor
Mariano Acosta (1894); Don Pedro Moncayo y don Pedro Carbo (1890); La jubilacin del
historiador Cevallos (1890); La reparacin: el doctor Antonio Borrero C. (1892); Un drama
en miniatura: Dn. Miguel Valverde; Doa Mercedes G. de Moscoso: Athos a Silvio (1887);
El general Lamar (1899); Doa Marietta de Veintimilla (1889); El teatro en Imbabura
(1881); Nuestra cuestin de lmites: rplica al Sr. Dr. Dn. Luis Cordero (1902); El concertaje
de indios (1912); La excomunin en Manab: cartas dirigidas al Sr. Dr. Dn. Felicsimo Lpez;
Montalvo civilizador (1915).
1950. Monroy Garaicoa, Gustavo. Apuntes para la historia de la Marina de Guerra del
Ecuador, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 55-62.
1951. Moreno S., Rubn Daro. Ecuador, economa y poltica en el ltimo siglo. Quito:
Facultad Ciencias Econmicas, [1984?] 123 p.
A neo-Marxist analysis of cacao, banana, and petroleum cycles.
1952. Muoz, Julio H. Doctrinas militares aplicadas en el Ecuador: historia y pedagoga
militar; El Ejrcito que el Ecuador necesita. Quito: Estado Mayor General, 1949. 254 p.
Two works in one.
1953. Nacin, cultura nacional y literatura en el Ecuador, Adrin Carrasco V. [et al.]., Revista
del IDIS, 16 (nov. 1986), 205-278.
Examines the interaction between the formation of a national identity and literature in the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Utilizes as examples Roberto Andrades Pancho
Villamar (1900) and Luis A. Martnezs A la costa (1904). Also published in: Anales de la
Universidad de Cuenca, 38 (dic. 1986), 9-74.
1954. Naranjo Puente, Hugo. Historia de la polica en el Ecuador, 1830-1956. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Nacionales, 1956. 352 p.
1955. Nicol Lpez, Gerardo. Sntesis de la historia de la Repblica, 2 ed. Ambato: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Tungurahua, 1980. 508 p.
1956. Nurse, Charles. Ecuador, The State, Industrial Relations and the Labour Movement in
Latin America, edited by Jean Carrirre, Nigel Haworth, and Jacqueline Roddick (New York: St.
Martins Press), p. 99-127.
A prcis of the history of the labor movement in Ecuador. Nurse argues that the influence of the
government over labor increased in the 1970s, more so in the rural than in the urban sector,
however, as a result of the petroleum boom and agrarian reform.
1957. Oberem, Udo. Contribucin a la historia del trabajador rural en Amrica Latina:
conciertos y huasipungeros en Ecuador, Sarance, 6 (1978), 49-78.
A detailed, well researched working paper on the history of debt peonage in Ecuador from the
beginning of forced labor on rural estates in the 1530s through the 1950s. Interestingly enough
Oberem does not appear to have been aware of Prez T.s Las mitas en la Real Audiencia de
Quito (item 1469). Reprinted in item 607 and in: Peones, conciertos y arrendamientos en
Amrica Latina, edicin de Jan Bazant [et al.] (Bogot: Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
1987), p. 47-90.
1958. Orellana, J. Gonzalo. Resumen histrico de la repblica, El Ecuador en cien aos de
independencia (item 1928), vol. 1, p. 23-168.
1959. Orellana, J. Gonzalo. Resumen histrico-poltico de la repblica, Resumen histrico del
Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1969), vol. 1, p. 7-144.
Updates item 1958.
1960. Paltn Domguez, Leonor del Carmen. Ecuador 1830-Repblica 1967. Quito: Impr. Don
Bosco, 1978. 312 p.
Although a high school text, Sister Leonor del Carmens Ecuador is an useful introduction to the
national period, given her comprehensiveness of coverage and relative impartiality.
1961. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. Ecuador, la Repblica de 1830 a nuestros das, 6a ed. corr.
y aumentada. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1979. 557 p.
An idiosyncratic, ideologically biased interpretation of the national period.
1962. Pea Herrera, Juan. Historia de la aviacin ecuatoriana, 1842-1943. Quito: Edit. Quito,
[1944]. 254 p.
1963. Peralta, Jos. El rgimen liberal y el rgimen conservador juzgados por sus obras.
Quito: Tip. de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1911. 156 p.
Anti-Flores, Garca Moreno, Caamao, Flores Jijn, and Cordero. Pro-Alfaro.
1964. Prez Concha, Jorge. De la goleta Alcance al caonero Caldern. Guayaquil: Instituto
de Historia Martima, Armada del Ecuador, 1987. 2 v.
Highlights the history of the Navy from the wars for independence through the Peruvian invasion
of 1941.
1965. Prez Merchant, Braulio. Las colonias siria, libanesa y palestina en el Ecuador. Quito:
Tall. Grf. Kaleda, 1931. 133 p.
1966. Pike, Frederick B. The United States and the Andean Republics: Peru, Bolivia, and
Ecuador. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1977. 493 p.
A political and ideological history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Peru, Bolivia, and
Ecuador--in that order--as well as a reconsideration of their relations with the United States.
Insofar as Ecuador is concerned, Pike does not offer any new interpretations, but he does provide
a useful digest of major developments for English-language readers.
1967. Prosistas de la Repblica. Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1960. 706 p. (Biblioteca
ecuatoriana mnima; [17])
Consists of selections from the writings of Vicente Solano, Jos Flix Valdivieso, Rafael
Villagmez Borja, Benigo Malo, Francisco Javier Salazar, Antonio Flores, Jos Modesto
Espinosa, Roberto Espinosa, Francisco Febres Cordero Muoz (better known as Hermano
Miguel), Honorato Vzquez, and Alberto Muoz Vernaza.
1968. Quintero, Rafael; and Erika Silva. Ecuador, una nacin en ciernes, 2 ed. rev. y corr.
Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1995. 3 v.
A superior analysis and interpretation of the political, economic. and social history of republican
Ecuador, the historiography of which the authors themselves have enriched through their other
studies as well as through the considerable original research and thought that went into the
preparation of this work. Incorporates Quinteros 1978 doctoral thesis, Los partidos polticos en
el Ecuador y la clase terrateniente en las transformaciones del Estado. Although Quinteros
discussion of the class structure of pre-1895 Ecuador is less than desirable, he and Silva are to be
commended for their detailed and comprehensive coverage of economic and social developments
of the post-1895 years. Their depiction of the labor and peasant classes and movements is
especially strong and richly textured, not that everyone will agree with their Marxist approach.
Well indexed. 1 ed.: Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador;
Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 3 v. 3 ed., rev. y corr. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1998. 3 v.
1969. Resumen histrico del Ecuador: 1830-1930, 1947, J. Gonzalo Orellana [editor]. Quito:
Edit. Fr. Jodoco Ricke, 1948-1957. 3 v.
Vol. 3 subtitled: Apuntaciones cronolgicas complementarias, 1947-1957. Almost a wholly new
work, not just an update of: El Ecuador en cien aos de independencia (item 1927). Includes
additional authors as well as new essays.
1970. Reyes, Oscar Efrn. Historia de la Repblica: esquema de ideas y hechos del Ecuador, al
partir de la emancipacin. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1931. 331 p.
Subsequently reworked and updated as the second volume of the authors Breve historia general
(item 636).
1971. Riofro Villagmez, Eduardo. Manual de ciencia de hacienda y conceptos de derecho
fiscal ecuatoriano, 4a ed. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1951-1952. 2 v.
Although the first vol. is a treatise on the public exchequer in Europe and Latin America at large,
it includes considerable data on the history of the public exchequer in Ecuador from 1830
through the 1940s, and the second is given over entirely to the evolution of the tax structure of
the country.
1972. Robalino Dvila, Luis. Orgenes del Ecuador de hoy. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana; Puebla, Mxico: Cajica, 1964-1970. 8 v. in 10.
An exceptionally detailed political history of the nineteenth and early- twentieth centuries.
Diachronic but multifaceted in coverage insofar as data are concerned. Traditional in approach
and methodology, however. Unfortunately not indexed. Vol. 1, Nacimiento y primeros aos de
la repblica, covers Floress first presidency; vol. 2, Rocafurete, 2 ed., the Rocafuerte years and
Floress second and third terms; vol. 3, La reaccin anti-floreana, the Roca, Urbina, and
Robles years; vol. 4, Garca Moreno, 2 ed., the Garca Moreno period; vol. 5, Borrero y
Veintimilla (2 v.), the Borrero and Veintimilla years; vol. 6, Diez aos de civilismo, the
Progressive period; and vols. 7, Eloy Alfaro y su primera poca (2 v.) and 8, El ocaso del viejo
luchador, the Alfaro years.
The first edition of Garca Moreno (Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1949) is generally considered
the most objective account of the politics and the politicians of 1860-1875. See also Robalino
Dvilas Apndice al libro Garca Moreno (Quito: L. Robalino Dvila, 1964).
1973. Robalino Dvila, Luis. Testimonio de los tiempos. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1971. 303 p.
A miscellany of Robalinos lesser writings on men and events of the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Includes a useful summary of his opus magnus Orgenes del Ecuador de hoy
(item 1972).
1974. Rodrguez, Linda Alexander. La poltica en el Ecuador, 1830-1925, Cultura, 9:26
(set./dic. 1986), 13-40.
1975. Rodrguez, Linda Alexander. The Search for Public Policy: Regional Politics and
Government Finances in Ecuador, 1830-1940. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
xv, 281 p.
A revision of her doctoral thesis: Ecuadors National Development: Government Finances and
the Search for Public Policy, 1830-1940. 1981. University of California, Los Angeles. xvii, 403
leaves. A superior study of the politics and the political economy of the first 110 years of the
national period. Also one of the very few studies that examines the role of regionalism in the
political history of the post independence period systematically. Includes statistical appendixes.
Chapters 5-6 have been published in Spanish as: La Reforma bancaria de la revolucin juliana y
sus secuelas econmicas, 1926-1937, Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 1:2 (1987),
11-101, has as the work as a whole: Las finanzas pblicas en el Ecuador (1830-1940). Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1992. 273 p. (Biblioteca de
historia econmica; 4)
1976. Rolando, Carlos A. Anuario administrativo de la Repblica del Ecuador, Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 260-296.
A chronology of the constitutional assemblies and congresses, including extraordinary sessions,
heads of state and ministers.
1977. Rolando, Carlos A. Obras pblicas ecuatorianas: cronologa de las obras pblicas,
fiscales, municipales y particulares, llevadas a cabo desde la fundacin de la Repblica del
Ecuador, mayo de 1830 hasta nuestros das. Guayaquil: Tall. Tip. de la Sociedad Filantrpica,
1930. 346 p.
1978. Rolando, Carlos A. Los presidentes del Ecuador, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
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2026. Contestacin a los libelitas del bando ministerial. Quito: Impr. de M. Rivadeneira y Ca.,
1848. 11 p.
Signed and dated at end: La Oposicin. Setiembre 30 de 1848.
2027. El Contrabando de Esmeralda: absolucin al Gobierno. Quito: Impr. La Novedad,
1898. 94 p.
Defense attorneys brief, testimonies, and court findings in the case of the Esmeralda transaction.
2028. Cordero, Benigno. Apuntamientos sobre la Expedicin del Sur. Quito: Fundicin de
Tipos de M. Rivadeneira, 1884. 120 p.
First hand account of and official communiques regarding the 1884 campaign of Generals
Francisco Javier Salazar and Reinaldo Flores.
2029. Cordero, Benigno. Defensa del ex-Intendente de Polica de Guayaquil, teniente coronel
don Benigno Cordero, respecto a su comportamiento en los aciagos das del 23, 24 y 25 de
enero de 1888. Loja: Impr. del Clero, 1890. 77 p.
2030. Cordero, Luis. Cartas al Sr. don Juan Len Mera, Memorias de la Academia
Ecuatoriana, 13 (jul. 1932), 243-292.
Correspondence from 24 Mar. 1868 through 3 Nov. 1894.
2031. Cordero Palacios, Octavio. De potencia a potencia: captulo de historia en el cual se ve
como el seor doctor don Manuel Vega devolvi la Gobernacin del Azuay al Presidente de la
Repblica, don Gabriel Garca Moreno. Cuenca: Universidad del Azuay, 1922. 40 p.
2032. Cornejo, Jorge. Rocafuerte y su obra penitenciaria, Revista del derecho social
ecuatoriano, 16/19 (ene./dic. 1959), 146-153.
2033. Cornejo, Rafael Federico. La conspiracin del 6 de agosto en Quito. Ipiales, 1875. 18 p.
2034. Coronel, Valeria. Repensando la tradicin y la diferencia, Procesos: revista
ecuatoriana de historia, 6 (II sem. 1994), 83-89.
A commentary on Hernn Ibarras Nos encontramos amenazados por todita la indiada (item
2103).
2035. Crespo Toral, Remigio. Garca Moreno y un episodio de la cuestin peruanoecuatoriana, Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 33/34 (abr.
1939/ago. 1940), 50-79.
Examines Garca Morenos role in the Peruvian invasion and occupation of Guayaquil (18591860).
2036. Crespo Toral, Remigio. La revolucin contra Espinosa, Revista del Centro de Estudios
Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 31 (abr. 1938), 269-274.
Pro-Garca Moreno.
2037. Criminal seguido de oficio para descubrir ocultadores o sustractores de los restos del
gran Mariscal de Ayacucho seor general D. Antonio Jos de Sucre [1895], ARNAHIS, 13:19
Nacional, 1895. 42 p.
2046. Destruge, Camilo. Ecuador, la Expedicin Flores: proyecto de monarqua americana,
1846-47. Guayaquil: Impr. de El Tiempo, 1906. iv, 55 p.
Relacin histrica por un viejo liberal.
2047. Destruge, Camilo. Ecuador, estudios histricos. Guayaquil: Impr. Sucre, 1912. 200 p.
2048. Destruge, Camilo. Ecuador, estudios, relaciones y episodios histricos. Guayaquil: Edit.
El Vigilante, 1907. vi, 269 p.
This and the preceding item (2047) consist of essays on various episodes, aspects, and
personages of the nineteenth century.
2049. Destruge, Camilo. Los guatusos, Boletn de la Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil, 2:14
(abr. 1911), 213-223.
On the montoneros of 1865-1866.
2050. Destruge, Camilo. Naves histricas: el vapor Chile, despus Machala, Boletn de la
Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil, 2:18 (ago. 1911), 277-285.
2051. Destruge, Camilo. Naves histricas: la fragata Colombia, Boletn de la Biblioteca
Municipal de Guayaquil, 2:16 (jun. 1911), 245-254; 2:17 (jul. 1911), 262-269.
2052. Destruge, Camilo. Naves histricas: incendio del Washington, Boletn de la Biblioteca
Municipal de Guayaquil, 1:6 (ago. 1910), 83-92.
2053. Destruge, Camilo. Proceso sobre la muerte del coronel Francisco Jado, Boletn de la
Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil, 1:4 (jun. 1910), 50-58.
Jado was one of the victims of Otamendi.
2054 Destruge, Camilo. La sublevacin del Vargas, Boletn de la Biblioteca Municipal de
Guayaquil, 3:40 (mar./abr. 1914), 241-248.
Regarding the 1831 rebellion of the Vargas Column.
2055. Documentos, [editados por] Samuel Guerra B. [y transcritos por Juan Freile Granizo],
Cultura, 2:6 (ene./abr. 1980), 299-538.
Major compendium of previously unpublished materials from 1830, especially correspondence of
Juan Jos Flores.
2056. Documentos que manifiestan la inicua revolucin acaudillada por Eloy Alfaro y sostenida
por Francisco Ruz Sandoval, los Cerezos y dems montoneros. Guayaquil, 1887. 36 p.
2057. Duncan, Roland E. William Wheelwright and Early Steam Navigation in the Pacific,
1820-1840, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, 32:2 (Oct.
1975), 257-281.
Wheelwright, the North American consul in Guayaquil between 1825 and 1829, played a major
role in the introduction of steamships to Ecuador and Peru.
2057. Ecuador. Documentos relativos al ramo de tabaco: estancado por la lejislatura de 1837 y
desestancado por el poder ejecutivo en 1838. Guayaquil: Impr. de M.J. Murillo, 1838. 27 p.
2059. Ecuador. Congreso Nacional. Actas del Congreso constitucional del Ecuador (ao 1839):
precedidas de una introduccin histrica, por Francisco Ignacio Salazar. Quito: Impr. del
Gobierno, 1893-1894. 2 v.
2060. Ecuador. Congreso Nacional. Actas del Congreso constitucional del Ecuador, ao de
1837: precedidas de una introduccin histrica, por Francisco Ignacio Salazar. Quito: Impr. del
Gobierno, 1892. 2 v.
2061. Ecuador. Congreso Nacional. Actas del Congreso ecuatoriano de 1831: precedidas de
una introduccin histrica, por Francisco Ignacio Salazar. Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1888.
lxxxviii, 212 p.
2062. Ecuador. Congreso Nacional. Actas del Congreso ecuatoriano de 1832: precedidas de
una introduccin histrica, por Francisco Ignacio Salazar. Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1890. l,
214 p.
2063. Ecuador. Congreso Nacional. Actas del Congreso ecuatoriano de 1833: precedidas de
una introduccin histrica, por Francisco Ignacio Salazar. Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1891.
lxxxi, 191 p.
2064. Ecuador. Congreso Nacional. Actas del primer Congreso Constituyente del Ecuador (ao
de 1830): precedidas de una introduccin histrica, por Francisco Ignacio Salazar. Quito: Impr.
del Gobierno, 1893. xcv, 160 p.
Reprinted as: Discurso introductorio y actas del primer Congreso Constituyente del Ecuador,
ao de 1.830. Quito: Centro de Estudios Histricos del Ejrcito, 1998. 261 p. (Biblioteca del
Ejrcito Ecuatoriano; vol. 15) Includes a new introductory study: Discurso introductorio sobre
la Constitucin Ecuatoriana de 1830: descripcin de antecedentes y del ambiente en que fue
promulgada by Marcos Gndara Enrquez.
2065. Ecuador. Convencin Nacional (1835). Actas de la Convencin Nacional del Ecuador,
ao de 1835: precedidas de una introduccin histrica, por Francisco Ignacio Salazar. Quito:
Impr. del Gobierno, 1891. ccxxiii, 177 p.
Items 2059-2065 are basic sources for the study of the political history of the 1830s. Also they
appear to be the only compendia of congressional and constitutional assembly sessions prior to
1885 to have been published, but extensive reports of congressional activities may be seen in the
Registro oficial, for a guide to the titles and dates of publication of which see items 360 and 361.
The editors introductions include additional source material (e.g., addresses by the President to
Congress). See also item 2176.
2066. El Ecuador de 1848 a la luz de documentos inditos del Quai DOrsay, Cultura, 9:25
(mayo/ago. 1986), 385-408.
2067. El Ecuador y el Dr. Pedro Moncayo: ad majus diaboli gaudium. Quito: Impres por J.
Sanz, 1871. 30 p.
Signed at end: Los Ecuatorianos.
2068. Elas Murgua, Julio J.; and Armando Nieto Velez. Conflicto peruano-ecuatoriano 18581859, Historia martima del Per, t. 6, vol. 2 (Lima: Edit. Ausonia, 1976), p. 465-678.
The most complete study to date of Ramn Castillas invasion and occupation of Guayaquil.
Well documented and illustrated.
2069. Espinosa, Jos Modesto. Cartas al seor Juan Len Mera, Memorias de la Academia
Ecuatoriana, 13 (jul. 1932), 105-145.
Correspondence from 3 Jan. 1873 through 21 Dec. 1894.
2070 Espinoza, Leonardo. La influencia de 1830 en el desarrollo republicano del Ecuador,
Cultura, 2:6 (ene./abr. 1980), 229-258.
See also the discussion of Espinosas ponencia by Juan Cordero and others in ibid., p. 259-275.
2071. Estrada Carmona, Emilio. La campaa de los chapulos de 1884. Guayaquil: Universidad
de Guayaquil, 1984. 44 p.
2072. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Los bancos del siglo XIX, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del
Guayas, 1976. xvii, 323 p.
A detailed study of banks and other financial institutions founded in the 1800s. Does not stop
with the turn of the century but continues coverage through the demise of the Banco Comercial y
Agrcola in 1926.
2073. Fernndez L., Jorge; and David Loyola. Gnesis y constitucin de la burguesa
agroexportadora en el Ecuador y su lucha por el poder en el siglo XIX, Revista del IDIS, 6
(1979), 257-304.
An essay on the emergence of the landed bourgeoisie and its struggle to dominate national
politics during the nineteenth century. Somewhat tendentious.
2074. Flor Vsconez, Jos L. La primera constitucin del Ecuador, 1830, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia (Quito), 63:135/136 (ene./dic. 1980), 171-194.
2075. Flores, Antonio. La conversin de la deuda anglo-ecuatoriana, estudio introductorio de
Eduardo Santos Alvite. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1979.
378 p. (Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 3)
Reprints the 2 ed corr. y aum.: Quito: Impr del Gobierno, 1890. 81, 140 p. A solid study of the
external debt in the 1800s. See also the following item.
2076. Flores, Antonio. Crdito y derecho pblico. Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1890. 46, 48 p.
On the external debt of the state, how to finance the Ferrocarril del Sur, and Chinese immigration
(which Flores opposed).
2077. Flores, Antonio. Documentos justificados de su manifiesto sobre su ninguna ingerencia
en el asunto Esmeraldas con un apndice. Paris: Impr. Garnier, 1895. 11 p.
2078. Flores, Antonio. Don Eloy Alfaro refutado por documentos autnticos. New York, 1886.
38 p.
2079. Flores, Antonio. Para la historia del Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Catlica, 1891. xv, 250,
278, 14, xvi, [55] p.
Refutes Marieta de Veintemillas Pginas del Ecuador (item 2205) and Eloy Alfaros verbal
attacks on the government. Extensively documented.
2080. Flores, Reinaldo. La campaa de la costa: dirigida por Reinaldo Flores, Comandante en
Jefe de Operaciones de las fuerzas del litoral, para debelar la revolucin injustificable
encabezada por el seor Eloy Alfaro, en noviembre de 1884. Guayaquil: Impr. de Calvo y C.,
1885. 206 p.
2081. Flores, Reinaldo. Parte general de la campaa y combate de Esmeraldas y documentos
anexos a dicha parte. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1886. 35 p.
2082. Garca G., Eugenio. Numismtica ecuatoriana: las monedas de un cuarto de 1842 y de
1843, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 2:4/5 (ago. 1952), 65-78.
2083. Garca Moreno, Gabriel. Cartas de Garca Moreno, [recopiladas por] Wilfrido Loor.
Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1953-1955. 4 v.
The printer varies. The publisher was Loor himself. An exceptionally important source of data
on political and other events of 1848-1875. Also published in a 2 ed.: Quito: Prensa Catlica,
1956-1966.
2084. Garca Moreno, Gabriel. Cartas de Garca Moreno al Dr. Antonio Borrero, Revista del
Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 6 (mayo 1922), 146-166; 31 (abr.
1938), 210-231.
Correspondence from 22 Dec. 1858 through 23 Apr. 1864, and from 29 Dec. 1858 through 30
Apr. 1870. Published by Alberto Muoz Vernaza.
2085. Garca Moreno, Gabriel. Cartas de Garca Moreno al Dr. Manuel Vega, Revista del
Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 2 (abr. 1921), 126-146; 3 (jun. 1921),
257-264; 4 (sept. 1921), 334-342; 5 (nov. 1921), 31-37.
Correspondence from 16 Mar. 1861 through 13 Sept. 1864.
2086. Garca Moreno, Gabriel. Cartas polticas de Garca Moreno a don Carlos Ordez Lazo:
1860-1873, [edicin de] Alfonso Ordez Mata. Cuenca: Tip. Alianza, 1923. vi, 262 p.
2087. Garca Moreno, Gabriel. Escritos y discursos de Gabriel Garca Moreno, recopilados y
publicados por la Sociedad de la Juventud Catlica; prlogo de Juan Len Mera; 2 ed. aum. y
anotada por Manuel Mara Plit Laso. Quito: Tip. y Encuad. Nacionales, 1923. 2 v.
Originally published: Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1887-1888. 2 v. Plit Laso also annotated the first
edition.
2088. Garca Moreno, Gabriel. Garca Moreno y el General Salazar, introduccin y notas por
Francisco Salazar Alvarado, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 58:125 (ene./jun.
1975), 187-234.
Consists of sixty-five previously unpublished letters from Garca Moreno to Francisco Javier
Salazar from 1864-1873.
2122. Mera, Juan Len. La dictatura y la restauracin en la Repblica del Ecuador: ensayo
histrico, 2 ed., segn la 1 ed. pstuma de 1932; estudio introductorio, Rafael Quintero. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1982. 278 p.
Published posthumously. Although Mera originally intended to continue Cevalloss Historia, he
only managed to cover the Borrero and Veintimilla years. Invaluable, nonetheless, as a relatively
objective, eyewitness account. The original ed. (Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1932) included a
biography of Mera by Julio Tobar Donoso, p. v-xlv. See also Meras Garca Moreno (item
3407).
2123. Mera, Juan Len. Observaciones sobre la situacin actual del Ecuador. Ambato, 1887.
43 p.
2124. Mills, Nick D., Jr. Liberal Opposition in Ecuadorean Politics, 1830-1845. 1972. vii, 224
leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico, 1972.
2125. Mills, Nick D., Jr. Liberalismo, ideologa y tradicin en la nacionalidad ecuatoriana: un
ensayo interpretativo, Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 7:13 (jun. 1978), 31-57.
2126. Moncada, Jos. De la independencia al auge exportador, Ecuador pasado y presente
(item 572), p. 111-135.
A new approach essay on the nineteenth century by a young Turk (at the time). Written,
however, before that much professional or social scientific research had been conducted on the
years 1830-1895.
2127. Moncayo, Pedro. El Ecuador de 1825 a 1875: sus hombres, sus instituciones y sus leyes.
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1979. 2 v.
Reprints the 2d ed., posthumously corrected and augmented by Carlos E. Moncayo and Luis F.
Veloz: Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1906. xxiii, 456 p. Originally published: Santiago de Chile, 1885.
336 p. Extensively documented. Moncayo, an early liberal, opposed caudillismo regardless of
who was in power. One of the founders of El Quiteo libre, a short-lived anti-Flores newspaper,
Moncayo spent almost his entire adult life in exile in Peru and Chile.
2128. Moncayo, Pedro. La partida de nacimiento del Estado ecuatoriano, Boletn del Archivo
Nacional de Historia, 21 (1982), 90-128.
2129. Montalvo, Juan. Cartas publicadas por el I. Concejo Municipal de Cuenca. Cuenca: Tip.
Municipal, 1927. 58 p.
Publishes Montalvos letters of 1885-1888 to Federico Malo from Paris.
2130. Montalvo, Juan. Las catilinarias. Ambato: Edicin Sesquicentenario II Convencin
Nacional, 1987. 2 v.
2131. Montalvo, Juan. Las catilinarias; El cosmopolita; El regenerador, seleccin y prlogo,
Benjamn Carrin; cronologa y notas, Gustavo Alfredo Jcome. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho,
1977. xxxviii, 491 p.
2132. Montalvo, Juan. Juan Montalvo, estudio y selecciones de Gonzalo Zaldumbide. Puebla:
Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1959. 578 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima; [14])
Selections from: El cosmopolita, Los siete tratados, Pginas desconocidas, and Captulos que se
olvidaron a Cervantes.
2133. Montalvo, Juan. Selections from Juan Montalvo, translated from the Spanish by Frank
MacDonald Spindler and Nancy Cook Brooks. Tempe: Center for Latin American Studies,
Arizona State University, 1984. v, 123 p.
2134. Mrner, Magnus. The Swedish Frigate Eugenie and the Flores Expedition Against
Guayaquil, Pacific Historical Review, 34:1 (Feb. 1965), 51-64.
Also published in Spanish as: La fragata sueca Eugenia y la expedicin de Flores contra
Guayaquil en 1852, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 24:41 (1974), 155-171.
2135. Moscoso C., Martha. Comunidad, autoridad indgena y poder republicano en el siglo
XIX, Revista andina, 7:14 (dic.1989), 481-499.
2136. Muratorio, Blanca. Nacin, identidad y etnicidad: imgenes de los indios ecuatorianos y
sus imagineros a fines del siglo XIX, Imgines e imagineros (item 1940), p. 109-196.
Focuses on el Ser blanco-mestizo como el principal interlocutor en el dilogo entre la nacinestado y la indianidad dominada. Como grupo dominante a fines del siglo XIX, la burguesa de
la Costa us a los Indios como peones semiticos ... para sus propios intereses iconogrficos y
para legitimar sus propios xitos econmicos. Especially fascinating is Muratorios discussion
of the depiction of Indians in the several international expositions of the second half of the
nineteenth century, especially those of Paris in 1889 and of Chicago in 1892. Also published in
part in English as: Nationalism and Ethnicity: Images of Ecuadorian Indians and Imagemakers
at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century, Ethnicity and the State, edited by Judith D. Toland (New
Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1993; Political and Legal Anthropology; 9), 21-54.
2137. Muratorio, Ricardo. La transicin del obraje a la industria textil y el papel de la
produccin textil en la economa de la sierra en el siglo XIX, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr.1986),
531-543.
A study of the conversion of the obrajes of the Jijn family from sweat shops into factories. Also
examines the role of textile production in the economy of the highlands in the 1800s.
2138. Murillo Mir, Juan. Historia del Ecuador de 1876 a 1888: precedida de un resumen
histrico de 1830 a 1875. Quito: Empresa Editora El Comercio, 1946. 297 p.
Reprint; originally published: Santiago: Impr. Santiago Hurfanos, 1890. iii, 396 p. Also
available in a new edition with an introductory study by Elas Muoz Vicua. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1993. 344 p. An eyewitness account of the tumultuous years
between the assassination of Garca Moreno and Flores Jijns election.
2139. Nieto, Jos. La verdad sobre las calumnias de la seora Marieta Veintimilla. Quito:
Impr. del Clero, 1891. 96 p.
Reprinted in Museo Histrico, 29 (dic. 1957), 121-175; 30 (mar. 1958), 208-235; 31 (ago. 1958),
119-141. Anti-Veintimilla.
2140. Niza Troya, Kleber. La formacin econmica y social del Ecuador desde 1830 hasta la
revolucin liberal. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas,
1982. 45 p.
A superficial examination of economic and social developments between 1830 and 1895.
2141. Nmina de algunos abogados ecuatorianos recibidos en el siglo XIX, Boletn del
Archivo Nacional de Historia, 6:11 (dic. 1961), 108-117.
2142. Ortz Crespo, Gonzalo. La incorporacin del Ecuador al mercado mundial: la coyuntura
socio-econmica, 1875-1895. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1981. 343 p. (Biblioteca de
ciencias sociales; 17)
A fundamental work for the understanding of a critical yet previously poorly studied period in
Ecuadorian history, especially insofar as economic and social developments are concerned, the
initial years of the second cacao boom and its economic and social repercussions. Also
published in a: 2 ed. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1988. 294 p.
2143. Ortz Crespo, Gonzalo. Panorama histrico del perodo 1875-1895, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 7, p. 237-275.
A revisionist study of economic as well as political developments of the closing decades of the
nineteenth century. Takes up where item 2009 leaves off.
2144. Pattee, Richard. La epoca crtica de la historia ecuatoriana, 1857-1861, Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 7-28.
2145. Pattee, Richard. Gabriel Garca Moreno y el Ecuador de su tiempo, 3 ed. Mxico: Edit.
Jus, 1962. 397 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1941. 437 p. Favorable without being
adulatory, one of the most scholarly studies ever undertaken of Garca Moreno and of his years in
power. Includes three introductory chapters on the first thirty years of the national period.
2146. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Historia de la Casa de
Moneda de Quito, 1534-1863, Boletn del Archivo Nacional de Historia, 21 (1982), 7-97.
Notwithstanding the chronological delimiters in the title, a history of the Casa de Moneda,
established in 1831 and suppressed in 1863.
2147. Pereira Gamba, Prspero. El porvenir del Ecuador. Lima: Tip. de Aurelio Alfaro, 1860.
28 p.
2148. Prez, Felipe. Anlisis poltico, social y econmico de la Repblica del Ecuador:
precedida de un resumen jeogrfico e histrico. Bogot: Impr. del Neo-Granadino, 1858. 125 p.
The author was a nineteenth-century Colombian geographer.
2149. Prez Concha, Jorge. Veintemilla, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas,
8:18/20 (1950), 74-96.
An in-depth examination of Veintemillas rise to power through the coup detat of Sept. 8, 1876.
2150. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Los esclavos de hace un siglo, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 1:1 (ene. 1951), 60-65.
Like far too many of Pimentel Carbos essays, this one consists of the usual miscellany or tidbits
of data, redeemed only by their novelty.
2151. Polanco, Jos Antonio. Recuerdos de un veterano en la campaa de 1859 y 1860,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 51:111 (ene./jun. 1968), 119-126.
2152. Polanco, Jos Antonio. Recuerdos de un veterano en la campaa de Cuaspud de 1863,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 50:110 (jul./dic. 1967), 253-257.
2153. Polanco, Jos Antonio. Recuerdos de un veterano en la campaa de Tulcn: 31 de julio
de 1862, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 50:109 (ene./jun. 1967), 117-124.
Items 2151-2153 are relatively objective accounts of the internecine strife and armed conflicts
with Colombia and Peru of the late 1850s and early 1860s by a participant. Apparently the
author was a professional military officer.
2154. Plit Ortiz, Francisco. La fundacin de la Repblica del Ecuador: mayo-septiembre de
1830. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1981. 93 p.
2155. Ponce, Camilo. El contrato DOksza ante el Consejo de Estado. Quito: Impr. Catlica,
1891. 134 p.
Argues that the contract with Count DOksza for the construction of the railroad between
Chimbo and Riobamba should have been nullified for failure on the part of the Count to comply
with some of the terms of the contract.
2156. Pozo Monsalve, Tefilo. Entre el amor y el deber: escenas de la campaa de 1882-1883
en el Ecuador. Cuenca: Municipalidad de Cuenca, 1986. 106 p.
2157. Price, Joedd. Ecuadorian Opinions of the United States in the Nineteenth Century: an
Attitudinal Study. 1968. v, 226 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill.
2158. Price, Joedd. Images and Influences: The Legacy of the Founding Fathers and the
Federal System in Ecuador, Latin American Research Review, 10:3 (Fall 1975), 121-136.
2159. Proao y Vega, Eloy. Coleccin de algunos escritos relativos a la memoria del
excelentsimo seor doctor D. Gabriel Garca Moreno, presidente del Ecuador, asesinado el 6
de agosto de 1875: precedida de algunos artculos que revelan el verdadero espritu de su
administracin catlica. Quito: Impr. de J. Campuzano y M. Rivadeneira, 1876. 1 v. in various
paginations.
2160. Proao y Vega, Eloy. Historia de la campaa del Ecuador en defensa de sus instituciones
republicanas contra la dictatura del General Ignacio de Veintemilla en 1882. Quito: Impr. de la
heredera de Pablo S. Paredes, por J. Mora, 1884. vi, 260 p.
Supposed to have been a tomo primero, but in fact the only vol. published.
2161. La Proyectada expedicin de Flores al Ecuador: polmica periodstica y parlamentaria
(1845-1847), prlogo del Dr. Angel Francisco Brice; advertencia y notas del Dr. Pedro Grases.
Maracaibo: Impr. del Estado, 1964. 349 p.
Pro-Flores. Includes newspaper articles by Rafael Mara Baralt, whose name appears at head of
title.
2162. Quintero, Rafael. El carcter de la estructura institucional de representacin poltica en
el Estado ecuatoriano del siglo XIX, Revista ciencias sociales, 2:7/8 (1978), 70-109.
Demonstrates through analysis of voting requirements and election returns that the political
process was not just dominated, but virtually monopolized by the upper class and its middle
class retainers and clients during the first seventy years of the national period. And that the
more things changed, the more they remained the same. Not even the advents of the Liberals in
1895 made any real difference. Whereas 5.7 percent of the estimated total population of
1,004,791 (not an improbable figure) participated in the presidential election of 1892 under the
Progressives, only 1.7 percent of the estimated total population voted in the vice residential
election of 1899. Also published in: Segundo encuentro de historia y realidad econmica y
social del Ecuador (item 574), vol. 1, 219-266.
2163. Quintero, Rafael. La cultura tradicional y la Iglesia en la sociedad ecuatoriana del siglo
XIX, Cultura, 2:4 (mayo/ago. 1979), 115-149.
An essay on the role of the Catholic Church in the ideology, politics, economics, and society of
the country in the 1800s. N.B. Items 2162 and 2163 are chapters from the authors 1978
doctoral thesis, Los partidos polticos en el Ecuador y la clase terrateniente en las
transformaciones del Estado--per se not published as a separate but incorporated in essence in
item 1968.
2164. Quintero, Rafael. El Estado terrateniente del Ecuador (1809-1895), Estados y naciones
en los Andes, hacia una historia comparativa: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador y Per, J.P. Deler y
Y. Saint-Geours, compiladores (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos; Instituto Francs de
Estudios Andinos, 1986), vol. 2, p. 397-417.
A preview of Quintero and Silvas Ecuador, una nacin en ciernes (item 1968).
See also the Debate sobre las ponencias de: Hermes Tovar, Problemas de la transicin del
Estado Colonial al Estado Nacional (1810-1850), and Rafael Quintero ... in ibid., p. 419-434,
with commentaries by Thierry Saignes, Hermes Tovar, Germn Colmenares, Jean-Paul Deler,
Marie-Danielle Demlas, Jean Piel, Manuel Chiriboga, Henri Favre, Nelson Manrique, and Yves
Saint-Geours, and replies by Tovar and Quintero.
2165. La Regeneracin de setiembre y la reaccin del terrorismo. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1877.
iv, 81 p.
2166. La Restauracin de 1883, Coleccin Amigos de la Genealoga, 27 (abr. 1987), 267-270.
Chiefly ill.
Consists of period photographs from the private collection of Dr. Miguel Daz Cueva.
2167. Los Revolucionarios del 14 de diciembre. Quito, 1870. 63 p.
2168. Reyes, Oscar Efrn. Primeros hechos de transformacin social en el Ecuador
independiente, Amrica (Quito), 27:102/103 (jul./dic. 1951-ene./dic. 1952), 5-36.
2169. Robertson, William Spence. Garca Morenos Dream of a European Protectorate,
Contribuciones para el estudio de la historia de Amrica: homenaje al Dr. Emilio Ravignani
Gobierno, 1886. 69 p.
2178. Sarasti, Jos Mara. Nmero 2 de la Vindicacin y protesta contra los escritos de los SS.
Leopoldo y Reinaldo Pino: consignados en los nmeros 5 y 7 de El Independiente de
Latacunga. Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1889. 87 p.
2179. Sarasti, Jos Mara. Los pentaviros y Alfaro . Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1884. 67 p.
2180. Silva, Elas E. Pinceladas acerca de la Administracin Caamao y de la Administracin
Flores. Guayaquil: Impr. de La Palabra, 1892. vii, 168 p.
Although Silva identified himself as un liberal, he was pro-Caamao and pro-Flores.
2181. Silva, Erika. Estado, Iglesia e ideologa en el siglo XIX, Nueva historia del Ecuador
(item 615), vol. 8, p. 9-44.
A provocative reexamination of the nature of the state, of the churchs role in politics, and of the
ideological underpinnings of the state and the of the church as a political force, and therefore of
what may be called the political culture of the nineteenth century.
2182. Sociedades democrticas de Ilustracin, de Miguel de Santiago y Filarmnica: discursos
pronunciados en la sesin pblica efectuada el 6 de marzo de 1852, 2 ed. Quito: Banco Central
del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1984. 38 p. (Fuentes y documentos para la
historia de la msica en el Ecuador; 2)
Originally published: Quito: Impr. F. Bermeo, 1852.
2183. Solano, Vicente. Discurso pronunciado en la Iglesia Catedral de Cuenca en el Te Deum
por el triunfo de Miarca. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1965. [41] p.
2184. Solemne pronunciamiento de la capital de Quito y dems pueblos del Sur de Colombia,
por el cual se constituye el Ecuador en estado soberano, libre e independiente, publcalo,
ilustrado con numerosos documentos explicativos Jacinto Jijn y Caamao. Quito: Impr. de la
Universidad Central, 1922. xi, 53, iv, dxiii p.
2185. Sosa, Ximena; and Cecilia Durn. Familia, ciudad y vida cotidiana en el siglo XIX,
Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 8, p. 157-191.
A pioneering study of family, daily, and urban life, including public health and festivities, in the
nineteenth century. See also items 1352 and 2612.
2186. Spindler, Frank MacDonald. Nineteenth century Ecuador: An Historical Introduction.
Fairfax: Geroge Mason University Press, 1987. xiv, 285 p.
More or less factually sound but a strictly political account. Also far more descriptive and
narrative than analytical and interpretative. But beware the hidden, sometimes ill founded
assumptions Spindler makes as to chronology, historiography, and cause and effect.
2187. Tern, Emilio Mara. Informe al jefe supremo general Eloy Alfaro sobre la deuda angloecuatoriana. Quito: [s.n.], 1896. 868, 12 p.
Covers the years 1822-1890.
2188. Tern Guerrero, Jos Mara. La dictadura neroniana en el Ecuador. Ipiales: Tip. de N.
Medicis, 1870. 17 p.
Anti-Garca Moreno.
2189. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La abolicin de la esclavitud en el Ecuador, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 39:93 (ene./jun. 1959), 5-30.
A useful overview of the abolition of black slavery, especially of the legislation involved. Does
not address the specifics of implementation of the laws nor the social issues involved, however.
2190. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La administracin del Coronel Ascsubi en 1849 y 1850, Boletn
de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos Americanos, 3:7/8 (jul./oct. 1919), 53-83.
Reprinted in authors Monografas histricas (item 2197), p. 45-98.
2191. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La administracin de don Diego Noboa, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 1:1 (jul./oct. 1920), 59-72; 1:2 (nov./dic. 1920), 155-194.
Reprinted in authors Monografas histricas (item 2197), p. 99-210.
2192. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La constituyente de 1.845, desde el punto de vista religioso,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 54:117 (ene./jun. 1971), 24-53.
A detailed analysis of the issues faced by the Constitutional Assembly of 1845, especially but not
exclusively those relating to state and church.
2193. Tobar Donoso, Julio. El Ecuador de 1822 a 1895, Boletn de la Biblioteca Nacional,
n.s., 1:6 (sept./oct. 1926), 358-374; 1:7 (nov./dic. 1926), 391-412.
2194. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Entre Roca y Urvina, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 60:129/130 (ene./dic. 1977), 5-24.
2195. Tobar Donoso, Julio. El fin de una fbula, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 31:77 (ene./jun. 1951), 20-77.
Regarding Garca Morenos responsibility for the 1862 conflict with Colombia. Also available
as a separate: Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1951. 60 p.
2196. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Legislaturas del perodo de Roca, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 56:121 (ene./jun. 1973), 33-54.
2197. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Monografas histricas. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1938. 539 p.
Convenient anthology of eleven of Tobar Donosos essays on politics and politicians, the church
and churchmen, education and educators in the nineteenth century.
2198. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Las segundas elecciones de 1875, Boletn de la Sociedad
Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos mericanos, 1:2 (ago./sept. 1918), 118-135.
Reprinted in authors Monografas histricas (item 2197), p. 311-346.
2199. Van Aken, Mark J. King of the Night : Juan Jos Flores and Ecuador, 1824-1864.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. ix, 382 p.
As of the late 1990s, the most objective and apparently also the most well researched, account of
Floress political career, not just of the Flores years. Also published in Spanish in a revised and
enlarged edition as: El rey de la noche: Juan Jos Flores y el Ecuador, 1824-1864. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1995. 439 p. (Coleccin histrica; 21)
2200. Van Aken, Mark J. The Lingering Death of Indian Tribute in Ecuador, Hispanic
American Historical Review, 61:3 (Aug. 1981), 429-459.
Rescues from rhetoric the fiscal and socioeconomic implications of the gradual suppression of
Indian tributes. Also published in Spanish as: La lenta expiracin del tributo indgena en el
Ecuador, Cultura, 6:16 (mayo/ago. 1983), 49-80.
2201 Vargas Torres, Luis. El gobierno del litoral y los pentaviros Alfaro y Sarasti. Guayaquil:
Impr. de Murillo, 1884. 70 p.
2202. Vargas Torres, Luis. La revolucin del 15 de noviembre de 1884. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1984. 65 p.
2203. Vega Ugalde, Silvia. Ecuador, crisis polticas y Estado en los inicios de la repblica, 1
ed. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1991. 163 p.
2204. Veintimilla, Ignacio de. La regeneracin de septiembre y la reaccin del terrorismo.
Quito: Zans, 1877. 81 p.
2205. Veintimilla, Marieta de. Pginas del Ecuador. Lima: Impr. Liberal de F. Masias, 1890.
411 p.
A spirited defense of Ignacio de Veintimilla by his niece. Unfortunately it is far more of an
attack on the dictators enemies than an account of the captain generals regime. Reprinted:
Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1982.
2206. Velsquez, Csar Vicente. La verdad histrica sobre la fundacin del estado
ecuatoriano, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 63:135/136 (ene./dic. 1980), 97-104.
2207. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. El general Flores y su proyectado protectorado francs para
el Ecuador, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 8:22/24 (dic. 1958), 35-71.
2208. Villalba F., Jorge. Eleccin de Vicente Rocafuerte a la presidencia de la repblica,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 66:141/142 (ene./dic. 1983), 65-86.
2209. Villamar, Rafael. El general Eloy Alfaro y la restauracin. Quito: Impr. Paredes, 1884.
60 p.
2210. Vintimilla, Maria Augusta. Luchas campesinas en el siglo XIX y la revolucin liberal de
1895, Revista del IDIS, 8 (abr. 1980), 83-94.
A working paper.
2211. Wray Espinosa, Alberto. El derecho y la fundacin del Estado: notas para una
interpretacin histrica de la Constitucin de 1830, Cultura, 2:6 (ene./abr. 1980), 27-53.
See also the Crticas y comentarios thereof, in ibid., 55-68.
2212. Zaldumbide Gangotena, Julio. Cartas al seor don Juan Len Mera, Memorias de la
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
SIGLO XX (1895-)
Here are entered works on the twentieth century in general and studies that have to do with both
periods into which the years since the Liberals came to power have been divided, 1895-1960, and
1960-, in accordance with the periodization adopted by the editors of the Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615). I have annotated fewer of the items that follow than I did for the colonial,
independence, and early national periods, partly because I am still in the process of mastering the
literature on the twentieth century and partly because to have done so would have made this
bibliography appreciably longer than it already is. In turn this is because there are so many more
published materials on the twentieth century than there are on the preceding centuries.
A set of essays on the economic crises of the late 1920s/early 1930s and of the 1980s.
Contents: Rosemary Thorp, Estudio comparativo introductorio (p. 11-17); Jos Samaniego,
Conceptualizacin de la crisis (p. 19-30); Carlos Marchn Romero, La crisis de los aos
treinta: diferenciacin social de sus efectos econmicos (1920-1932) (p. 31-60); Agustn Cueva,
La crisis de 1929-32: un anlisis (p. 61-77); Juan Maiguashca, Los sectores subalternos en los
aos 30 y el aparecimiento del velasquismo (p. 79-93); Guillermo Bustos Lozano, La
politizacin del problema obrero: los trabajadores quiteos entre la identidad pueblo y la
identidad clase (1931-34) (p. 95-131); Jos A. Moncada Snchez, Problemas y perspectivas
de transformacin econmica y social (p. 133-166); Len Rolds Aguilera, Endeudamiento
externo y crisis (p. 167-190); Ana Luca Armijos and Marco A. Flores, Las polticas
econmicas aplicadas en la dcada de los ochenta: respuesta a la crisis (p. 191-223); Alberto
Dahik, Los programas de ajuste en la ultima dcada (p. 225-234); Simn Pachano, La
sociedad imperceptible (p. 235-258); Germnico Salgado, Integracin latinoamericana:
problemas de hoy y nuevos rumbos, (p. 259-288); and Felipe Portocarrero M. , La economa
peruana en los aos 80 (p. 289-305).
2242. Cruz L., J. Arturo. Paso obligado, 1941-1981. Quito: Grf. Rubn Daro, 1981. 76 p.
2243. Cueva, Agustn. Ecuador, 1925-1975, Amrica Latina, historia de medio siglo,
coordinacin, Pablo Gonzlez Casanova, vol. 1 (Mxico, D.F.: Siglo XXI, 1977), p. 291-326.
See comments on items 2383 and 2698.
2244. Cueva, Agustn. Interpretacin sociolgica del Velasquismo, Revista mexicana de
sociologa, 32:3 (mayo/jun. 1970), 709-735.
2245. Cueva, Agustn. Ms all de las palabras: (introduccin a la mitologa velasquista,
Indoamrica (Quito), 3:7/8 (ene./mayo 1967), 36-69.
2246. Cueva, Agustn. El proceso de dominacin poltica en Ecuador. Quito: Ediciones
Crtica, 1972. 108 p.
A Marxist interpretation. Especially concerned with populism and velasquismo. Latest known
Spanish edition as of July 1997: (7a): Quito: Edit. Planeta, 1988. 188 p. Also published in
English as: The Process of Political Domination in Ecuador, translated by Danielle Salti. New
Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1982. 106 p.
2247. Chaves Granja, Jaime. El Comercio y el drama de la poltica nacional en el siglo XX,
El Ecuador en el siglo XX (item 2255), p. 29-117.
More a review of the political history of the first seventy years of the twentieth century than of El
Comercio.
2248. Del Campo, Esteban. Ecuador, 1948-1978: los desequilibrios de la economa y el
desarrollo desigual, Cultura, 3:7 (mayo/ago. 1980), 152-169.
2249. Daz, Oswaldo. Ecuador, estudios retrospectivos, 1 ed. Bogot: Ediciones Tercer
Mundo, 1980. 120 p.
Contents: El latifundio en el Ecuador; El Plan Andino en el Ecuador; La poltica agraria de
Arosemena; Notas sobre la clase media del Ecuador; Cambios sociales de las clases
dominantes del Ecuador; Los partidos polticos del Ecuador; Ecuador, entre la revolucin y
el miedo; La crisis econmica de las universidades ecuatorianas; Anexos: Gran
descubrimiento arqueolgico en Ecuador; Ecuadors Loss; Respuesta al Gramma.
2250. Ecuador. Congreso. Cmara de Diputados. Diario de debates de la Cmara de
Diputados. 1896/1897-1970. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1900-1970?
2251. Ecuador. Congreso. Cmara del Senado. Diario de debates de la Cmara del Senado.
1896/1897-1970. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1900-1970?
Items 2250 and 2251 were not published for every session. Also they appeared under variant
names (see, for example, items 2407 and 2408). For a more complete chronology than can be
given here, see Cecilia Durn C., El Archivo-Biblioteca de la Funcin Legislativa, Memoria,
MARKA, 1:1 (nov. 1990), p. 248-250.
2252. Ecuador. Fuerza Area Ecuatoriana. Cincuentenario. Quito: FAE, 1970. 98 p.
2253. Ecuador, a country study, edited by Dennis M. Hanratty, 3rd ed. Washington, D.C.: GPO.,
1991. xxv, 306 p.
Emphasizes political, social, and economic developments of the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Suffers from the same defects as its predecessors (Area Handbook for Ecuador, 1st and 2nd ed.
[Washington, D.C.: GPO., 1966 and 1973]). Although the authors are members of the Federal
Research Division of the Library of Congress, they display more ignorance than knowledge of
Ecuador and employ altogether too simplistic an approach.
2254. El Ecuador de la postguerra: estudios en homenaje a Guillermo Prez Chiriboga, [Ren
Bez et al.], 1 ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1992. 2 v. (842 p.)
Essays on various aspects of the national reality in the 1950s and 1960s.
2255. El Ecuador en el siglo XX. Quito: Edit. Publitcnica, 1981. 400 p.
A set of essays on national politics, boundary dispute developments, literature, political parties,
the legislature, and education, for the particulars of which see items 2247, 5601, 4702, 2238,
5461, and 4270.
2256. Efimov, Aleksei Vladimirovich; Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich; and Valerian M.
Goncharova. Ekvador: istoriko-etnografischeskie ocherki. Moscow: Izd-vo Akademii nauk
SSSR, 1963. 221 p.
Analyzes political, economic, and social trends and conditions from the point of view of
orthodox Marxism-Leninism.
2257. Enfoque Ecuador: estudios de la realidad nacional, [Manuel Chiriboga et al.].
Guayaquil: Fundacin Eugenio Espejo, 1983. 140 p.
Contents: Manuel Chiriboga, Modernizacin capitalista y diferenciacin social; Luis F.
Verdesoto C., El anlisis de algunas caractersticas sobresalientes de la evolucin en los ltimos
treinta aos del sistema poltico ecuatoriano; Francisco X. Swett, Presente y pespectiva de la
economa ecuatoriana; Jos Luis Ortiz, Formas de organizacin rural en el Ecuador: marco
histrico; Xavier Ponce Cevallos, Apuntes generales sobre la cultura ecuatoriana; Jos Nuez
Cristiasen, Breves rasgos sobre los aspectos urbanos del Ecuador; Edmundo Vera Manzo,
Fuerza laboral, bienestar social y educacin en el Ecuador.
2258. Espinoza, Leonardo. Ensayo preliminar sobre imperialismo, oligarquismo y sindicalismo
para la elaboracin de la historia del movimiento obrero ecuatoriano, Revista IDIS, 16 (1986),
11-80.
2259. Espinoza, Leonardo. La formacin histrica del Ecuador en los orgenes del movimiento
obrero sindicalizado (1880-1938): teora, proceso y crisis, Revista IDIS, 21 (abr. 1989), 9-68.
Primarily concerned with the social and economic aspects of the origins of the working class and
the labor movement.
2260. Fitch, John Samuel. Class Structure, Populism, and the Armed Forces in Contemporary
Ecuador, Latin American Research Review, 19:1 (1984), 270-274.
Reviews Varas and Bustamantes Fuerzas armadas (item 2947), Quinteros El Mito del
populismo (item 2570), Hurtados Political Power (item 1939), and Cuevas The Process of
Domination (item 2246).
2261. Fitch, John Samuel. The Military Cup DEtat as a Political Process: Ecuador, 19481966. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1977. xv, 243 p.
A superb analysis of the role of the Armed Forces in national politics, especially in the overthrow
of Velasco Ibarra in 1961, of his successor and former Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena
Monroy in 1963, and of the downfall of the Junta Militar de Gobierno in 1966. Based largely on
interviews with military officers and civilian politicians. Identities have been concealed in some
cases at the request of the informants.
2262. Historia, cultura y poltica en el Ecuador, Ivn Carvajal [et al.], 1 ed. Quito: IDIS; Edit.
El Conejo, 1988. 163 p.
2263. Historia del Seguro Social Ecuatoriano: la evolucin institucional. Quito: Instituto
Ecuatoriano de Seguridad Social, 1984. 496 p.
2264. Hurtado, Osvaldo. El proceso poltico, Ecuador hoy (item 2734), p. 166-197.
2265. Larrea Maldonado, Carlos. Transnational Companies and Banana Exports from Ecuador,
1949-1972, NS / Northsouth, 7:14 (1982), 3-42.
2266. Larrea Stacey, Eduardo. Evolucin de la poltica del Banco Central del Ecuador 19271987. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1990. 157 p.
(Biblioteca de historia econmica; no. 3)
2267. Las Luchas campesinas, 1950-1983: movilizacin campesina e historia de la FENOC, 1
ed. Quito: Centro de Educacin Popular, 1984. 48 p.
Apparently Dalton Burgos was responsible for the text of this popular, heavily illustrated history
of the Federacin Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas.
2268. Menndez Carrin, Amparo. La conquista del voto en el Ecuador de Velasco a Rolds: el
suburbio guayaquileo en las elecciones presidenciales del Ecuador, 1952-1978, anlisis del
comportamiento electoral a nivel local en un contexto de control social. Quito: Corporacin
2280. Pinoargote Cevallos, Alfredo. La repblica de papel, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Artes Grficas
Senefedler, 1982. 403 p.
2281. La Planificacin en el Ecuador, estudio introductorio y seleccin de Leonardo Vicua
Izquierdo. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1987. 665 p.
(Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 27)
An anthology of excerpts from official studies of planning in Ecuador, selections from
development plans spanning the years 1934 through 1984, and essays on development planning
in Ecuador. See also the Junta Nacional de Planificacins 25 aos de planificacin (Quito:
Junta Nacional de Planificacin, 1979).
2282. El Populismo en el Ecuador: antologa de textos, recopilacin de Felipe Burbano y Carlos
de la Torre Espinosa. Quito: ILDIS, 1989. 476 p.
An anthology of materials originally published between 1930 and 1988, on Velasquismo.
2283. Prensa alternativa: hojas volantes, 1934-1964. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil,
Facultad de Comunicacin Social, 1984. 99 p.
2284. Ramrez Dueas, Violeta. Sntesis de la historia del servicio social en el Ecuador. Quito:
Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1948. 79 p.
2285. Robalino Bolle, Isabel. El sindicalismo en el Ecuador, 2 ed. Quito: INEDES: CONUEP:
PUCE, Ediciones de la Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador 1992. 273 p.
A basic reference on the history of labor organizations in the country.
2286. Rump, Kay. Problem der Monokultur: dargestellt am Beispiel der Bananenwirtschaft
Ecuadors. Gottingen: O. Schwartz, 1969. 174 p.
2287. Saad, Pedro. La CTE y su papel histrico, 3 ed. Guayaquil: Edit. Claridad, 1979. 62 p.
History of the Confederacin de Trabajadores del Ecuador.
2288. Salgado, Germanico. La economa del Ecuador en los ltimos setenta aos, 1906-1976.
Guayaquil: Departamento de Publicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1978. p. 103-145.
Published together with Crnica comercial e industrial de Guayaquil. (item 6751).
2289. Salgado, Germanico. Lo que fuimos y lo que somos, Ecuador hoy (item 2734), p. 1958.
2290. Salvador, Galo. La Junta Nacional de Planificacin y el desarrollo socio-econmico del
Ecuador: 20 aos. Quito: Asociacin de Empleados de la Junta Nacional de Planificacin y
Coordinacin Econmica, [1974?]. 48 leaves.
2291. Samaniego Ponce, Jos. Crisis econmica del Ecuador: anlisis comparativo de dos
perodos histricos (1929-1933)- (1980-1984). Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988. 243 p.
(Biblioteca de historia econmica; 2)
2292. Temas obreros, Elias Muoz Vicua [editor]. Guayaquil: Departamento de Publicaciones,
Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil, 1986. 276 p.
2293. Velasco Ibarra, Jos Mara. Obras completas, edited by Juan F. Velasco Espinosa, 2 ed.
Quito: Impr. y Eds. Lexigrama, 1973-1975. 15 v.
Includes selected speeches and other materials from each of his terms of office, 1934-35, 194447, 1952-56, 1960-61, 1968-72.
2294. Velasco Ibarra, Jos Mara. Pensamiento poltico, estudio introductorio y seleccin,
Enrique Ayala Mora. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1997.
527 p. (Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 38)
2295. Vera Arrata, Alfredo. Historia de un triste banano. Guayaquil: Impr. Abad, 1972. 79 p.
2296. Verdesoto C., Luis. Certezas e incertidumbres en la poltica ecuatoriana. Quito:
CIUDAD, 1990. 497 p.
2297. Ycaza, Patricio. Historia del movimiento obrero ecuatoriano, 2 ed. rev. Quito: Centro
de Documentacin e Informacin de los Movimientos Sociales del Ecuador, 1984-1991. 2 v.
Vol. 2 published conjointly by Centro de Investigaciones de los Movimientos Sociales del
Ecuador (CEDIME) and by Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD. Just to confuse matters, vol. 2
is a 1 ed. The first ed. of vol. 1 was published by the Edit. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in
1983. A solid, well documented history of the working class movement, notwithstanding the
authors Marxist approach.
Contents: vol. 1, De su gnesis al Frente Popular; vol. 2, De la influencia de la tctica del
Frente Popular a las luchas del FUT.
2298. Zuvekas, Clarence, Jr. Economic Planning in Ecuador: An Evaluation, Inter-American
Economic Affairs, 25:4 (Spring 1972), 39-69.
Evaluates economic planning at the national level since the 1930s.
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
1895-1960
2299. El 4 de mayo de 1897 y los RR.PP. jesuitas residentes en Riobamba. Riobamba: [s.n.],
1898. ix, 58 p.
2300. El 15 de noviembre de 1922 y la fundacin del socialismo, relatados por sus protagonistas
Manuel Donoso Armas [et al.]; estudio y edicin de Vicente Plit. Quito: Corporacin Editora
Nacional; INFOC, 1982. 2 v.
A set of primary sources for the study of the 15 de noviembre and the early history of Socialism
in Ecuador. Consists of systematic testimonies drawn from oral interviews.
2301. El 28 de mayo, balance de una revolucin popular: documentos para la historia. Quito:
Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1946. xxxvi, 622 p.
An important compendium of official sources. Issued by the Oficina de Informacin y
Propaganda.
2302. El 28 de mayo de 1944: testimonio. Guayaquil: Litogr. e Impr. de la Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1984. 271 p.
Publishes nineteen eyewitness accounts of the overthrow of Arroyo del Ro and the return to
power of Velasco Ibarra.
2303. El 28 de mayo de 1944 y fundacin de la CTE, Osvaldo Albornoz Peralta [et al.]. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional; INFOC, 1984. 224 p.
2304. A la nacin: documentos. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1912. 50 p.
2305. La Administracin del Sr. Dr. Dn. Jos Luis Tamayo juzgada desde el origen de su
candidatura. Quito: Impr. Edit. Quito, 1924. 54 p.
2306. Aguirre, Manuel Agustn. El marxismo, la revolucin y los partidos socialista y
comunista en el Ecuador, Carlos Marx homenaje (Cuenca: Tall. del IDIS, 1983), p. 1-66.
2307. Aguirre, Manuel Agustn. El Partido Socialista en la revolucin del 28 de mayo. Quito:
Partido Socialista, Departamento de Publicaciones, 1945. 44 p.
2308. Alarcn Falcon, Ruperto. Para la historia: el Congreso de 1949 y mi destitucin del
cargo de Controlador General de la Nacin. Quito: Edit. Fr. Jodoco Ricke, 1949. 116 p.
2309. Albornoz Peralta, Oswaldo. Del crimen de El Ejido a la revolucin del 9 de julio de
1925. Guayaquil: Edit. Claridad, 1971. 163 p.
The author, a Marxist Leninist, holds the United States responsible for everything that went
wrong in Ecuador between 1912 and 1925, beginning with the assassination of Alfaro in 1911.
Reprinted several times.
2310. Albornoz Peralta, Oswaldo. Ecuador, luces y sombras del liberalismo, 1 ed. Quito:
Ediciones El Duende, 1989. 196 p.
Items 2309 and 2310 are egregious examples of some of what is wrong with late twentiethcentury historiography of Ecuador, crude analysis of political events and developments based on
blind acceptance of the Marxist and/or Marxist-Leninist paradigm. These two works are
important, however, because of Albornoz Peraltas seminal influence on many national scholars
of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
2311. Alfaro, Eloy. Historia del ferrocarril de Guayaquil a Quito: pginas de verdad. Quito:
Edit. Nariz del Diablo, 1931. 96 p.
2312. Alfaro, Eloy. Narraciones histricas, estudio introductorio, Malcolm Deas. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1983. 442 p.
Includes correspondence from 1901-1904, and a section on the presidential elections of 1901.
Originally published posthumously by Alfaros nephew Olmedo: New York, 1913. 2 v.
2313. Alfaro, Eloy. Obras escogidas. Guayaquil: Ediciones Viento del Pueblo, 1959. 2 v.
A collection of Alfaros correspondence and official writings covering the years 1882-1912.
Vol. 1 (p. 223-782) includes Nicols Augusto Gonzlez, El asesinato del gran Mariscal de
Ayacucho: ndice de un libro, 2 ed. (Quito, 1906), both editions of which Alfaro financed.
2314. Alfaro, Olmedo. El asesinato de Alfaro ante la historia y la civilizacin, 2 ed.
Guayaquil: Edit. Jouvin, 1938. iv, 252 p.
Originally published: Panam: Tip. Diario de Panam, 1912. vii, 292 p. The author blames
the partisans of Emilio Estrada in general and Carlos Freile Zaldumbide in particular for his
uncles lynching.
2315. Almeida, Rebeca. Kemmerer en el Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: FLACSO Sede Ecuador, 1994.
211 p.
2316. Almeida Vinueza, Jos. Luchas campesinas del siglo XX (primera parte), Nueva
historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 10, p. 163-186.
A working paper on peasant uprisings, movements, and organization from 1900 through 1961.
See also item 2636.
2317. Alvarado Garaicoa, Teodoro. Exposicin necesaria. Guayaquil: Tip. de la Sociedad
Filantrpica, 1938. 27 p.
A defense of his conduct como Secretario de la Jefatura Suprema de la Repblica.
2318. Alvares, Juan C. Breves apuntes de las campaas y acciones de guerra a que ha ocurrido
el Sr. Coronel Juan C. Alvares. Quito: Impr. Popular, 1906. 27 p.
2319. Anlisis sobre la cuestin eleccionaria de 1900-1901. Guayaquil: Impr. de El Tiempo,
1900. 32 p.
2320. Andrade, Carlos. Notas histricas. Quito: Impr. de El Tiempo, 1900. 32 p.
2321. Andrade, Manuel de Jess. Pginas de sangre, o, Los asesinatos de Quito: el 28 de enero
de 1912. Panam: Tip. Diario de Panam, 1912. ii, 120 p.
2322. Andrade, Roberto. Campaa de 20 das: (estudios histricos). Quito: Tip. de la Escuela
de Artes y Oficios, 1908. vi, 277 p.
A first hand account of Alfaros overthrow of Lizardo Garca and of Alfaros return to power in
1905.
2323. Andrade, Roberto. Sangre! quin la derram?: (historia de los ltimos crmenes
cometidos en la nacin del Ecuador). Quito: Impr. Antigua de El Quiteo Libre, 1912. 219 p.
Blames Plaza, Freile Zaldumbide, Daz, Navarro, Intriago, and Sierra, among others, for the
assassinations of Alfaro in Quito and of Julio Andrade in Guayaquil.
2324. Andrade Coello, Alejandro. La ley del progreso: El Ecuador en los ltimos quince aos.
Quito: Casa Edit. de J.I. Glvez, 1910. 64 p.
2325. Andrade Coello, Alejandro. Plaza. Quito: Impr. Jaramillo, 1905. 31 p.
2326. Antinazismo en Ecuador, aos 1941-1944: autobiografa del movimiento antinazi de
Ecuador (MPAE-MAE), Raymond Meriguet Coussegal, 1 ed. Quito: R. Mergituet Coussegal,
1988. 415 p.
Consists chiefly of photofacsimiles of the war years periodical Antinazi.
2327. Arcos, Carlos G. El espritu del progreso: los hacendados del Ecuador del 900, Cultura:
7:19 (mayo/ago. 1984), 107-134.
A preliminary study of the first years of the Sociedad Nacional de Agricultura. Reprinted in item
2239.
2328. Arcos, Gualberto. Aos de oprobio. Quito: Impr. Fernndez, 1940. 303 p.
A chronicle of the 1930s.
2329. Arvalo, Emilio. Artculos varios. Guayaquil: Edit. Claridad, [1972?]. 132 p.
2330. Arvalo, Emilio. La cooperativa y el alza del cacao en 1912, Cultura, 2:4 (mayo/ago.
1979), 261-290.
Also reprinted in item 2351. Arvalo (1859-1915) was a cuencano, a lawyer, and a member of
the Liberal Party. In this article, he examines the true causes of the depressed prices for cacao
between 1907 and 1911.
2331. Aristizbal, Miguel. Somatn: artculos escogidos de El Pichincha: primer diario
radical publicado en Quito en 1895-1896. Quito: Impr. de El Pichincha, 1896. lvii, 951, 6 p.
An eyewitness account of coeval events.
2332. Arzaga, Rafael Mara. Escritos polticos y literarios, prlogo de Manuel Elicio Flor.
that has already begun to revolutionize the historiography of the period; see the Debate sobre la
Historia de la revolucin liberal ecuatoriana, Procesos, 7 (I sem. 1995), 105-130, with
contributions by Guillermo Bustos, Juan J. Paz y Mio Cepeda, Willington Paredes Ramrez, and
Pablo Ospina. A revised version of Ayalas doctoral dissertation: The Liberal Revolution in
Ecuador, 1895-1912. 1981. St. Anthonys College, Oxford University.
2343. Banco de Pichincha. Exposicin que hace el Banco de Pichincha a la Comisin del
profesor Kemmerer y al pueblo ecuatoriano. Quito: Tall. de El Da, [1926?]. 103 p.
2344. Baquero C., Jos Antonio. Causas de la depreciacin monetaria en el Ecuador, Anales
de la Universidad Central del Ecuador, 63:308 (ene./jun. 1940), 35-136; 63:309 (jul./sept.
1940), 387-390; 63:310 (oct./dic. 1940), 599-646; 65:311 (ene./jun. 1941), 107-138.
2345. Barrera, Jos Ricardo. Descalificacin presidencial: el Congreso de 1932. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Minerva, 1950. 314 p.
Pro-Neptal Bonifaz.
2346. Blanksten, George I. Ecuador, Constitutions and Caudillos. New York: Russell &
Russell, 1964. xii, 196 p.
Reprint; originally published: Berkeley: University of California Press, 1951. Based on authors
doctoral dissertation (item 1913).
2347. Borrero, Manuel Mara. El coronel Antonio Vega Muoz y su ltima campaa militar.
Cuenca: Edit. Austral, 1957. 329 p.
Pro-Alfaro.
2348. Bueno, Luis Eduardo. El mes trgico: compilacin de documentos para la historia
ecuatoriana. Quito: Impr. Valdez, 1916. 311 p.
Examines the rebellion of Pedro Montero and the lynching of Alfaro.
2349. Bustos, Guillermo. La identidad clase obrera a revisin: una lectura sobre las
representaciones del Congreso Obrero de Ambato de 1938, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de
historia, 2 (I sem. 1992), 73-104.
A relatively sophisticated study of the working class of the early 1900s. Perhaps the most
impressive aspect of this study is that Bustos endeavors to define the working class as it was
rather than how it has been perceived ideologically.
2350. Bustos, Javier H. Campaa contra el Liberalismo desde 1895: concurrencia del centro,
Dios y patria (Riobamba), 3:10 (abr. 1926), 205-215; 3:11 (jul. 1926), 299-317; 3:12 (oct. 1926),
359-364; 5:17 (ene. 1928), 27-45; 6:22 (abr. 1929), 113-117; 6:23 (jul. 1929), 183-137; 6:24
(oct. 1929), 188-194.
2351. El Cacao, Emilio Arvalo [et al.]. Guayaquil: Departamento de Publicaciones, Facultad
de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil, 1981. 222 p.
Reprints several coeval essays and reports on economic conditions in the early-twentieth century,
especially on the production and export of cacao. Includes: Emilio Arvalo, La cooperativa y el
alza del cacao (1913); and Vctor Emilio Estrada, Ensayo sobre la balanza econmica del
basic work. Notwithstanding the title, almost entirely given over to post-1895 developments.
2366. Crdenas, Jos Corsino. La economa y los problemas del desarrollo en el Ecuador,
Revista de derecho social ecuatoriano, 4/5 (ene./jun. 1953), 119-151.
2367. Crdenas de Bustamante, Hipatia. Encuesta: Que debe hacer el Ecuador para librarse
de las dictaduras? Quito: Litografa e Impr. Romero, 1939. 189 p.
2368. La Carretera Rumichaca-Babahoyo: historia. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1928. 128 p.
2369. Carrillo, Gonzalo. Ajedrez y poltica universitaria: el a.b.c. de la juventud rebelde.
Quito: Impr. 28 de Mayo, [1944?]. 160 p.
2370. Castro Medina, Manuel. Para la historia nacional de la codicia. Guayaquil: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1992. 168 p.
A social and economic as well as political and ideological study of the Liberal period. Not a
complete or integral history but one, nonetheless, replete with insights on the bourgeoisie of the
coast, large landowners throughout the country, the Catholic Church, and the state.
2371. Clark, A. Kim. Indians, the State and Law: Public Works and the Struggle to Control
Labor in Liberal Ecuador, Journal of Historical Sociology, 7:1 (Mar. 1994), 49-72.
2372. Coello, Federico. Para el pueblo. Guayaquil: Impr. Gutenberg de Emilio A. Uzctegui,
1934. 87 p.
2373. Colomba Silva, Enrique. Aspectos generales de la poltica petrolera ecuatoriana,
Boletn del Instituto Sudamericano de Petrleo, 2:1 (ago. 1945), 59-76.
2374. Concha Enrquez, Pedro. Realidad: crtica a la poltica contempornea del Ecuador.
Quito: Impr. Fernndez, 1940. 131 p.
2375. Concha Enrquez, Pedro. Sancin 1941-1942: trgica etapa gubernamental ecuatoriana.
Quito: Impr. Fernndez, 1945. 200 p.
Anti-Arroyo del Ro.
2376. Crdova, Andrs F. El problema vial del Ecuador. Cuenca: Edit. El Mercurio, 1944. 73
p.
2377. Crdova, Andrs F. La vida poltica ecuatoriana a travs de la Constitucin dcima
tercera, Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 8:32 (jul. 1938),
369-385.
Analyzes the Constitution of 1929, the Congress of 1930, and the fall of Ayora in 1931.
2378. Crawford de Roberts, Lois. El Ecuador en la poca cacaotera: respuestas locales al auge
y colapso en el ciclo monoexportador. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1980. 276 p.
Publishes the authors doctoral dissertation (presented under a different name, Lois Johnson
Weinman): Ecuador and Cacao: Domestic Response to the Boom-Collapse Monoexport Cycle.
1970. xi, 384 leaves. University of California, Los Angeles. A study of the politics and
economics of the country at large, not just of the central-south coast, between 1890 and 1925.
Based on interviews as well as some archival research and published materials.
2379. Crespo Ordez, Roberto. Historia del Ferrocarril del Sur. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1933.
xvi, 273, ii p.
2380. Crespo Toral, Jorge. El comunismo en el Ecuador. Quito: Librera Cultura, 1958. 62 p.
2381. Crisis y cambios de la economa ecuatoriana en los aos veinte: ensayos conmemorativos
por los sesenta aos de fundacin del Banco Central del Ecuador, Carlos Marchn Romero,
compilador. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1987. 553 p.
2382. El Cuerpo diplomtico y la guerra de los cuatro das, ARNAHIS, 11:17 (ago. 1968),
41-56.
Publishes the 1932 dispatches of William Dawson, the ambassador of the United States in Quito,
regarding the War of the Four Days. Includes an introductory note by Robert E. Norris.
2383. Cueva, Agustn. El Ecuador de 1925 a 1960, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615),
vol. 10, p. 87-121.
A regurgitation of the item 2243. Also incorporates sections from Cuevas El Ecuador en los
aos treinta, Amrica Latina en los aos treinta, Luis Antezana [et al.] (Mxico: Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, 1977), p. 214-238, and his
El proceso de dominacin poltica (item 2246). Important not as historical synthesis because
Cuevas work suffers from ideological blinders, but as an example of how Ecuadorian Marxists
interpret their recent past. Continued by item 2698.
2385. Cueva Silva, Jaime. Las finanzas pblicas del Ecuador. Quito: [s.n.], 1960. 246 p.
2386. Cunningham, Charles Henry. Economic and Financial Conditions in Ecuador.
Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1931. ii, 40 p. (Trade Information Bulletin, U.S. Bureau of Foreign
and Domestic Commerce; 773)
2387. Chves, Angel Polibio. Libro de recortes. Ambato: Impr. Escolar, 1929. vii, 472 p.
An anthology of newspaper articles on political events and literary developments by an Army
officer.
2388. Chiriboga, Manuel. Auge cacaotero y economa regional: la costa ecuatoriana a inicios
del siglo XX, Estados y naciones en los Andes, hacia una historia comparativa: Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador y Per, J.P. Deler y Y. Saint-Geours, compiladores (Lima: Instituto de
Estudios Peruanos; Instituto Francs de Estudios Andinos, 1986), vol. 1, p. 293-315.
Concerned with concomitant developments in the highlands as well.
See also the Debate sobre la ponencia de: Manuel Chiriboga ..., ibid., p. 317-322, with
comments by Manuel Burga, Jean Piel, Germn Colmenares, Rafael Quintero, Jean-Paul Deler,
and replies by Chiriboga.
2389. Chiriboga, Manuel. Auge y crisis de una economa agroexportadora: el perodo
cacaotero, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 9, p. 55-115.
A solid essay on the the cacao boom and bust of 1880-1919. (See also items 2388 and 5940.)
Chronologically and thematically continued by item 2507.
A defense of Carlos Freile Zaldumbide and of his father Emilio Estrada against Olmedo Alfaros
charges that they were responsible for the assassination of Eloy Alfaro (see item 2314).
2424. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. La crisis de los cambios en el Ecuador: contribucin al estudio
de sus causas. Guayaquil: Litografa e Impr. La Reforma, 1924. 34 p.
2425. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. El desastre monetario del Ecuador: causas y culpables.
Guayaquil: Litografa e Impr. La Reforma, 1940. 43 p.
2426. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. La evolucin de la teora monetaria y del crdito, en sus aspectos
relativos a la depreciacin del circulante. Guayaquil: Impr. La Reforma, 1925. 25 p.
2427. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. Informe al Sr. Ministro de Hacienda, para conocimiento del Sr.
Presidente de la Repblica y del pas en general. Guayaquil: Edit. Jouvin, 1923. 107 p.
2428. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. El momento econmico en el Ecuador; Procurando hacer pas;
La Tragedia monetaria pasada y la futura: sus casusas, sus narcticos y sus remedios.
Guayaquil: Litografa e Impr. La Reforma, 1950. 86 p.
2429. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. Moneda y bancos en el Ecuador, estudio introductorio, Ren
Benalczar; nota preliminar y revisin del original, Julio Estrada Ycaza. Quito: Banco Central
del Ecuador; Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1982. 412 p. (Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento
ecuatoriano; 17)
Reprint; originally published: Quito, 1925. A major study of the fiscal crisis that began in 1914.
Also an important source for understanding the political economy of the times inasmuch as
Victor Emilio was a maker as well as a writer of history.
2430. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. Para la historia: mayo 28-septiembre 3 de 1944. Guayaquil:
Artes Grf. Senefelder, 1945. 72 p.
Justifies the authors participation in the overthrow of Arroyo del Ro and the return to power of
Velasco Ibarra.
2431. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. La poltica econmica desde la revolucin juliana. Guayaquil:
Edit. Cervantes, 1928. 70 p.
2432. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. El problema econmico del Ecuador en 1934: algunos
fundamentos para su solucin. Guayaquil: Litografa e Impr. La Reforma, 1934. 2 v.
Also available in reprint: Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, Facultad de Ciencias
Econmicas, 1982. 2 v.
2433. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. El problema vital del Ecuador: fuertes o esclavos, 2 ed.
Guayaquil: Departamento de Publicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1982. 89 p.
2434. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. Una propuesta de poltica econmica ante la posibilidad de
ocupara la cartera de hacienda en el gabinete de Neptal Bonifaz A. (1932), Revista ecuatoriana
de historia econmica, 3:5 (1989), 231-252.
2435. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. La tragedia monetaria del Ecuador: la construccin y
destruccin del Banco Central en 1938. Guayaquil: Artes. Grf. Senefelder, 1940. 311 p.
2436. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. La campaa de Esmeraldas, 1913-1916, Revista del Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 9:17 (jun. 1980), 5-125.
2437. La Evolucin poltica del 11 de agosto de 1911: relato de sus autores [Leonardo Narvez
et. al.]. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1911. 25 p.
2438. Falcon, Luis Alberto. Lucas Noespinto vuelve a la carga. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1997. 620 p.
Consists of newspaper articles of the 1920 and 1930s, by the riobambeo journalist Luis Alberto
Falcon (1895-1941), who published under the pseudonym Lucas Noespinto. This anthology,
taken from the pages of El Comercio and El Da in Quito and El Universo in Guayaquil,
comments upon and illuminates many aspects and personages of the early twentieth century.
2439. El Ferrocarril de Guayaquil a Quito: contratos y otros documentos importantes, 18971911. Quito: Tall. de El Comercio, 1912. 451 p.
2440. El Ferrocarril de Riobamba y la revolucin del 1 de enero de 1906. Riobamba: Impr.
Municipal, 1906. 61 p.
Signed: Un riobambeo.
2441. Fischer, Sabine. Crisis mundial, poltica econmica y el sector manufacturero: algunas
consideraciones en torno al desarrollo industrial en el Ecuador durante los aos 30, Revista
ciencias sociales (Quito), 5:15/16 (1984), 139-157.
2442. Fischer, Sabine. Estado, clase e industria: la emergencia del capitalismo ecuatoriano y
los intereses azucareros. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1983. 265 p.
A study of the sugar industry and interests in the first half of the twentieth century.
2443. Franco, Ernesto. Conferencia poltica sobre la crisis econmica y fiscal. Quito: Impr.
Nacional, 1931. 29 p.
2444. Franco, Ernesto. La crisis econmica actual y sus causas. Quito: Impr. de El Comercio,
1910. 35 p.
2445. Franco, Ernesto. Inundacin de papeles inconvertibles. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1923. 19
p.
Published under pseudonym: Focke.
2446. Franco, Ernesto. Nuestra crisis econmica: sus causas y remedios. Quito: Impr.
Fernndez, 1931. 64 p.
2447. Franco, Gustavo; and Palemn Custode. Historia del rgimen cambiario en el Ecuador,
Economa ecuatoriana (Mxico, D.F.: Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1960), p.
95-107.
2448. Fulvio. Ferrocarril de Alfaro. Cuenca: Impr. de F. Vintimilla, 1897. 35 p.
Attacks the contract signed with Archer Harman.
2449. Garcs, Enrique. Bajo una lluvia de balas: los cuadros trgicos en el Hospital Civil.
and offers methodologically more sophisticated and probably more accurate time series of money
in circulation than heretofore available. See also Pablo Lucio Paredess Comentario (p. 8795) and the exchange between Holligan and Lucio Paredes (p. 95-101).
2463. Ibarra, Hernn. La formacin del movimiento popular, 1925-1936. Quito: Centro de
Estudios y Difusin Social, 1984. 113 p.
2464. Insa Rodrguez, Ramn. Estudios de economa ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Universidad
de Guayaquil, 1942. 282 p.
2465. Intriago, J.F. Notas histricas sobre responsabilidades de los crmenes del 28 de enero de
1912. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1912. 39 p.
By one of the accused.
2466. Jcome, Augusto R. El Explico de Federico Pez. Quito: Impr. Americana, 1939. 23
p.
A commentary on Pezs Explico (item 2544).
2467. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. La Asamblea Liberal y sus aspectos polticos. Quito: Impr.
Editorial Quito, 1924. xlviii, 369 p.
Memoirs and analysis of the 1923/1924 assembly of the Partido Liberal Radical by one of its
members as well as one of the countrys leading intellectuals.
2468. Jijn y Caamao, Jacinto. Poltica conservadora. Riobamba: Tip. y Encuadernacin La
Buena Prensa del Chimborazo, 1929-1934. 2 v.
2469. Jijn y Caamao, Jacinto. Poltica conservadora, estudio introductorio y seleccin,
Ricardo Muoz Chvez . Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Corporacin Editora Nacional,
[1980] 303 p. (Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 7)
A representative statement of the political and social thought of the ideologues of the Partido
Conservador during the early 1900s. Includes selections from item 2467.
2470. Jirn, Sergio Enrique. La revolucin de mayo. Quito: Edit. Atahualpa, 1945. 426 p.
Jirn was one of the military leaders of the 28 de mayo.
2471. Jordn M., Aniceto. Revoluciones criollas. Quito: Ediciones Antorcha, 1938. 146 p.
2472. Juan, Jorge. Que significa la dictadura que pesa actualmente sobre el Ecuador?. Quito:
Impr. Gmez, 1936. 72 p.
An insightful account of the fall of Velasco Ibarra in 1935 and the establishment of the Federico
Pez dictatorship by an eyewitness, the true identity of whom I have been unable to ascertain.
2473. Junta Liberal de Pichincha. Junta Liberal de Pichincha, 1918-1919. Quito: Impr. de El
Diario Social, 1919. 93 p.
2474. Kemmerer, Edwin Walter. Diario personal de su permanencia en el Ecuador, Cultura,
7:19 (mayo/ago. 1984), 481-538.
See also Rafael Cordero Aguilar, Introduccin al diario del Profesor Kemmerer, in ibid., 463-
479.
2475. La Moto, Marco Antonio. Lo que vi en El Oro: (el reportaje periodstico ecuatoriano
ms trascendental de 1942). Guayaquil: Impr. El Telgrafo, 1942. 90 p.
2476. Lamus G., Ramn. Pginas de verdad: la ltima guerra ecuatoriana, 1911-1912. Quito:
Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1912. 329 p.
Lamus was the private secretary of General Flavio E. Alfaro.
2477. Larrea Alba, Luis. La campaa de 1906: antecedentes de la revolucin alfarista, su
desarrollo, sus consecuencias, el conflcito de 1910. Quito: Industrias Grf. Cyma, 1962. 173
p.
2478. Larrea Alba, Luis. La campaa de 1941: la agresin peruana al Ecuador, sus
antecedentes histricos, polticos y militares. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1964. 2 v.
Items 2477 and 2478 are military histories by a carrer officer.
2479. Larrea Chiriboga, Alberto. Algunas opiniones del profesor Kemmerer y mis puntos de
vista. Quito: Impr. de El Comercio, 1931. 32 p.
2480. Larrea Jijn, Modesto. Apuntes para la historia: sucesos que culminaron con la
revolucin de Tulcn, el 31 de enero de 1932. Quito: Tall. Grf. Minerva, 1957. 96 p.
2481. Larrea Stacy, Eduardo. Ensayo sobre la moneda: con un apndice sobre la situacin
monetaria del Ecuador de 1925-1932. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1933. 340 p.
2482. Laso, Luis Eduardo. Estudios econmicos: dos conferencias dictadas en la Universidad
Central de Quito. Quito: [s.n.], 1942. 63 p.
Contents: Breves consideraciones sobre la economa nacional; Posibles proyecciones
econmicas de la guerra sobre Amrica Latina y sobre el Ecuador.
2483. Lemus, Gil. Horcos: narra lo ocurrido en Quito y Guayaquil de 11 de agosto de 1911 a
28 de enero de 1912: con acopio de notas minuciosas relata la ultimacin de Montero, de Alfaro
y de Andrade. Quito: Impr. de El Comercio, 1912. 42 p.
2484. El Liberalismo ecuatoriano dividido por la Junta Suprema del Partido. Quito: Tall. Grf.
Nacionales, [1953?]. 39 p.
2485. El Liberalismo en el Ecuador: de la gesta al porvenir, edicin de Blasco Peaherrera
Padilla. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional; Fundacin Eloy Alfaro; Fundacin Friedrich
Naumann, 1991. 258 p.
A collection of papers and commentaries presented at a 1990 seminar on the significance of
liberalism in Ecuador. The authors include politicians and journalists as well as academicians.
2486. Linke, Lilo. Andean Adventure: a Social and Political Study of Colombia, Ecuador and
Bolivia. London: Hutchinson, 1945. 288 p.
2487. Linke, Lilo. The Political Scene in Ecuador: President Velasco Takes Over, The World
Today, 9:3 (Mar. 1953), 130-138.
2499. Maldonado Estrada, Luis. Socialismo ecuatoriano: ensayo sobre la revolucin nacional.
Guayaquil: Edit. Pginas Selectas, 1935. 58 p.
2500. Maldonado Tamayo, Luis. Traicin a la democracia en el Ecuador. Quito: [s.n.], 1947.
58 p.
2501. Manrique Izquieta, Carlos. Estudio estadstico de algunos aspectos de la situacin
general del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Tip. de la Sociedad. Filantrpica, 1936. 126 p.
A pioneering quantitative study of the demography, education, and economy of Ecuador in the
first third of the twentieth century. Includes some times series from the late 1800s onward.
2502. Marchn Romero, Carlos. La crisis deflacionaria de la economa ecuatoriana de los aos
treinta, Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 3:6 (1989), 103-156.
The second article in the 1988 Encuentro de Historia Econmica. Marchn Romero divides the
crisis years into two periods, 1927-1929 and 1930-1930. He finds that the expansionist monetary
policy of the first period enable the country to weather the economic crisis provoked by the
collapse of cacao, but that the the abandonment of the gold standard and the fall of the July
government intensified the crisis during the second period. See also Germnico Salgados
Comentario thereupon (p. 157-163).
2503. Martnez Mera, Juan de Dios. Manifiesto poltico. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1933. 54 p.
2504. Medina Castro, Manuel. Para la historia nacional de la codicia y otros apuntes sobre la
reforma liberal, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, Ncleo
del Guayas, 1992. 163 p.
2505. El Mes trgico: compilacin de documentos para la historia ecuatoriana. Quito: Impreso
por V. Valdez, 1916. 307 p.
28 de enero de 1912--Cover.
2506. Milk, Richard Lee. Growth and Development of Ecuadors Worker Organizations, 18951944. 1977. v, 194 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University.
2507. Mio Grijalva, Wilson. La economa ecuatoriana de la gran recesin a la crisis
bananera, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 10, p. 37-69.
A solid survey of economic developments from the Kemmerer reforms through the 1960s. See
also item 2620.
2508. Un Momento de transicin poltica, 1934-1935. Quito: Tall. Tip. Nacionales, 1935. 311
p.
Official messages, decrees, etc. of Velasco Ibarra and media articles on his administration.
2509. Moeller, August. Der Exporthandel nach Ecuador. Bckeburg: H. Prinz, 1936. xix, 202
p.
A doctoral dissertation on the export trade of Ecuador during the first third of the twentieth
century.
2510. Moncayo Andrade, Abelardo. Pensamiento econmico de Abelardo Moncayo Andrade.
Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, Archivo Histrico del Guayas: Universidad de
Guayaquil, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, 1981. xix, 208 p.
2511. Moncayo Andrade, Abelardo. Pensamiento poltico. Guayaquil: Facultad de Ciencias
Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil, 1983. 152 p.
Items 2510 and 2511 reprint representative examples of the economic and political thought of a
leading Liberal economist. Moncayo was instrumental in the reformation of the national
financial system in the late 1920s. Item 2511 includes: Apuntes biogrficos sobre Abelardo
Moncayo Andrade por Elas Muoz Vernaza (p. 11-68).
2512. Moncayo Gallegos, Paco. Las fuerzas armadas: de la revolucin alfarista al movimiento
juliano, Boletin histrico (Quito), 11 (31/32), 22-48.
2513 Monsalve, Pedro. Las campaas por la libertad: ao 1896, Dios y patria (Riobamba),
2:6 (abr. 1925), 138-149; 2:7/8 (jul./oct. 1925), 354-369.
2514. Monteza Tafur, Miguel. El conflicto militar del Per con el Ecuador, 1941. Lima: Edit.
Arica, 1976. 299 p.
The author was a a member of the military command in charge of the invasion of Ecuador.
2515. Mora Bowen, Alfonso. El Liberalismo Radical y su trayectoria histrica: apuntes para
una socio-poltica. Quito: Impr. Romero, 1940. 283 p.
2516. Mora Bowen, Alfonso. Mensaje laico a la juventud y docencia libres de mi patria!:
exgesis de la poltica, a travs de los regmenes pseudo Liberales-Radicales. Quito: Impr.
Fernndez, 1946. 165 p.
2517. Mora Lpez, Jos. El Ecuador en la Constituyente de 1896. Portoviejo: Colegio
Olmedo, 1896. 42 p.
2518. Mora Lpez, Jos. Historia del ferrocarril trasandino. Quito: [s.n.], 1908. 111 p.
2519. Mora Lpez, Jos. Pacificacin de la Repblica, o, Nueva poltica ecuatoriana.
[Portoviejo]: El Eco, 1899. 48 p.
2520. Mora Lpez, Jos. El suicidio del coronel Antonio Vega Muoz. Guayaquil: Impr. de El
Tiempo, 1907. 54 p.
2521. Moreano, Alejandro. Capitalismo y lucha de clases en la primera mitad del siglo XX,
Ecuador pasado y presente (item 572), p. 137-224.
A Marxist interpretation of the years 1895-1960. Opens with the usual misstatements, citing the
usual less than credible source: Tras las montaneras alfaristas vinieron los plantadores,
comerciantes y banqueros. El machete del Viejo Luchador haba desbrozado los caminos para el
desarrollo del capitalismo ecuatoriano. Con este objetivo, precisamente, lo haban llamado a
Panam el 5 de junio de 1895. Moreanos source is none other than Albornoz Peraltas Del
crimen de El Ejido (item 2309).
2522. Moreno, Julio E. La revolucin del 9 de julio y el gobierno de la dictadura. Quito:
Talleres Tipogrficos Nacionales, 1928. 81 p.
The author blames Nazi Germany as well as the Arroyo del Ro government for the territorial
losses of 1941. He also accuses Velasco Ibarra of having collaborated with Fidel Castro against
Ecuadorian interests during Velasco Ibarras fourth presidency (1960-1961).
2549. Paredes, Ricardo A. El imperialismo en el Ecuador: oro y sangre en Portovelo. Quito:
Edit. Artes Grficas, 1938. 228 p.
A well documented, scholarly account, notwithstanding authors ideological biases, of Ecuadors
dealing with the South American Development Company in the 1930s, especially during the
strikes of 1938.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Edit. Claridad, 1970. 240 p.
2550. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. La lucha por la democracia en el Ecuador. Quito: Edit.
Rumiahui, 1956. 144 p.
2551. Partido Conservador (Ecuador). El Partido Conservador sindica a los asesinos de Alfaro
y compaeros. Quito: El Partido, 1913. 72 p.
2552. Partido Liberal Radical (Ecuador). Asamblea Liberal de 1923: programa y estatutos del
Partido Liberal Ecuatoriano: votos de la asamblea. Quito: Tall. Tip. de El Da, 1924. 31 p.
2553. Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano. Labores de la Asamblea Nacional Socialista y manifiesto
del Consejo Central del Partido: 16-23 de mayo. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil,
Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, 1978. 98 p.
Photofacsimile reprint; originally published: 1926.
2554. Partidos polticos organizados del Ecuador, El Ecuador en cien aos de independencia
(item 1927), vol. 1, p. 169-178.
2555. Paz, Clotario E. Crnicas fugaces: (pginas de la historia ecuatoriana entre los das de
1925 a 1930). Guayaquil: Edit. Jouvin, 1930. 592, [4] p.
Published under the pseudonym Kurt von Friede.
2556. Pepper, Charles M. Report on Trade Conditions in Ecuador. Washington, D.C.: G.P.O.,
1909. 39 p.
At head of title: Department of Commerce and Labor. Bureau of Manufactures . . . Issued in
1908 as: Senate doc. 282, 60th Congress, 1st session; and also in a Bureau edition.
2557. Peralta, Jos. Eloy Alfaro y sus victimarios: apuntes para la historia ecuatoriana, 2 ed.
Cuenca: [s.n.], 1977. 495 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito, 1918. Also reprinted: Buenos Aires: Edit. Olimpo, 1951.
Peralta, a doctrinaire anticlerical as well a resolute Liberal, blames Gonzlez Surez and other
conservatives for Alfaros assassination.
2558. Peralta, Jos. Para la historia. Cuenca: Impr. Municipal, 1920. 104 p.
Attacks the Congress of 1920.
2559. Peralta, Jos. El rgimen liberal y el rgimen conservador juzgados por sus obras.
Estado ecuatoriano moderno (1895-1934), 2 ed. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1983.
386 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: FLACSO, 1980. In order to place the emergence of
velasquismo in context, Quintero examines in depth the economic and social as well as political
history of the late- nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. One of the most
important studies of the years in question.
2571. Quintero, Rafael; and Erika Silva. La crisis nacional general de 1895, Cultura, 4:11
(sept./dic. 1981), 93-107.
2572. Reyes, Oscar Efrn. Los ltimos siete aos. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1933. 201 p.
A solid study of the July Revolution and the first period of Ayoras administration.
2573. Ribadeneira, Enrique. Los acontecimientos del 28 de noviembre de 1936. Quito: Impr.
Industria, 1937. 23 p.
2574. Riofro Villagmez, Eduardo. La circulacin, los precios y el cambio en el Ecuador de
1913 a 1927, Anales de la Universidad Central, 39:261 (jul./sept. 1927), 94-124.
2575. Riofro Villagmez, Eduardo. Consideraciones financieras y econmicas, Revista, Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1:2 (abr./dic. 1945), 37-74.
2576. Riofro Villagmez, Eduardo. Gobierno y finanzas municipales. Quito: Impr. Municipal,
1945. 672 p.
2577. Riofro Villagmez, Eduardo. La participacin de las provincias en las finanzas pblicas
del Estado. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1955. 116 p.
A comparative study of the participation of the provinces in the financial structure of the state,
both as collectors of taxes and therefore as sources of revenue, and as beneficiaries of the
largess of the central government. Based on analysis of fiscal and budget data for 1953-1955.
Maintains that the fiscal burden on Guayaquil was not onerous and that Quito was not receiving a
disproportionate share of revenues.
2578. Riofro Villagmez, Eduardo. El problema monetario y el problema fiscal en el
Ecuador, Anales de la Universidad Central, 38:255 (ene./mar. 1926), 21-102; 38:256 (abr./jun.
1926), 258-329; 38:257 (jul./sept. 1926), 138-158; 38:258 (oct./dic. 1926), 270-293.
2579. Robalino Dvila, Luis. El 9 de julio de 1925. Quito: Edit. La Unin, 1973. 236 p.
2580. Robalino Dvila, Luis. El ao trgico de 1941 y otros ensayos. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana,
1971. 303 p.
2581. Robalino Dvila, Luis. Vida poltica: bonifacismo, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 57:112 (jul./dic. 1973), 13-25.
2582. Rodrguez Landvar, Fernando. Debate sobre la inconvertibilidad del sucre en el
Directorio del Banco Central en 1932, Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 1:1 (primer
semestre 1987), 99-166.
Publishes with an introductory study the Actas del Directorio del Banco Central in which the
abandonment of the gold standard and the floating of a 15,000,000 sucre loan to the government
were debated.
2583. Rodrguez S., Luis A. La agresin peruana: la campaa del Zarumilla, documentada.
Quito: Edit. Fr. Jodoco Ricke, 1948. 460 p.
2584. Rodrguez S., Luis A. La agresin peruana documentada, 2 ed. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1955. 516 p.
A new edition of the preceding item. Both items 2583 and 2584 should have been listed under
Lmites.
2585. Romero Tern, Domingo. Los traidores al Ecuador: apuntes para la historia. Quito:
Tall. Grf. Servicio de Suministros, 1952. 208 p.
Anti-Arroyo del Ro.
2586. Rosero Garcs, Fernando. Comunidad, hacienda y Estado: un conflicto de tierras en el
perodo de las transformaciones liberales, Ecuador debate, 12 (dic. 1986), 163-187.
2587. Rosero Revelo, Luis Alberto. Memorias de un veterano de la guerra del 41. Quito: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1978. 117 p.
2588. Rueda, Juan Manuel. Aspiraciones nacionales. Quito: Impr. Amrica, 1939. xiv, 228
p.
2589. Rueda Echevarra, Luis Alberto. Herosmo y constitucin: episodios histricos de la
Batalla de los 4 das. Quito: Impr. L.I. Fernndez, 1939. 181 p.
An eyewitness account by a participant.
2590. Rumazo Gonzlez, Alfonso. El Congreso de 1933. Quito: Edit. Bolvar, 1934. 213 p.
Analyzes the Congress that under the leadership of Velasco Ibarra overthrew Martnez Mera.
2591. Saad, Pedro A. El Ecuador y la guerra. Guayaquil: Impr. Emporio Grf., 1943. 40 p.
Outlines the impact of World War II on Ecuador, especially on social and economic conditions.
2592. Saavedra, Efren Homero. Cartas poltico-econmicas: ideas sobre un plan de accin
econmica nacional. Quito: Escuela Tipogrfica Salesiana, 1934. 96 p.
2593. Salgado, Luis A. Los acontecimientos del 28 de enero de 1912 ante la ciencia y el
derecho. Quito: Tip. y Encuadernacin Salesianas, 1917. 63 p.
2594. Snchez, Gustavo M. Decadencia poltica en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Impr. El Ideal,
1924. 18 p.
2595. Snchez Andrade, Jaime. Un ao de tirana. Quito: Impr. Ecuador, 1934. 143 p.
2596. Snchez Nez, Csar. Fuego y sangre: revoluciones del 11 de agosto de 1911 a 6 de
marzo de 1912: asesinatos de enero: Julio Andrade: documentos adicionales. Bogot: Impr.
Elctrica, 1913. 226 p.
Blames Gonzlez Surez for the death of Alfaro.
2609. Trujillo Len, Jorge. La hacienda serrana, 1900-1930. Quito: Instituto de Estudios
Ecuatorianos; Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1986. 244 p.
2610. Urrutia Surez, Francisco. Apuntes para la historia: la agresin peruana. Quito: Edit.
Ecuatoriana, 1968. 218 p.
An eye witness account. Coronel Urrutia participated in the 1941 conflict.
2611. Valdiviezo Ramrez, Emilio. Nueve de julio: la revolucin ante la historia. Quito: [s.n.],
1926. 34 p.
The author, a major in the Army, was one of the participants in the July Revolution.
2612. Vsquez, Mara Antonieta. Familia, costumbres y vida cotidiana a principios del siglo
XX, Nueva historia del Ecuador, (item 615), vol. 9, p. 205-233.
The final portrait in the triptych on family and daily life. See also items 1352 and 2185.
2613. Vega Toral, Enrique. El asesinato del General Antonio Vega Muoz, 10 de diciembre de
1906. Cuenca: Don Bosco, 1956. 195 p.
2614. Vega Ugalde, Silvia. La Gloriosa: de la revolucin del 28 de mayo de 1944 a la
contrarevolucin velasquista, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1987. 194 p.
2615. Velasco Ibarra, Jos Mara. El 28 de mayo: balance de una revolucin popular. Quito:
Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1946. xxxvi, 622 p.
A compilation of Velasco Ibarras speeches from the tumultuous days that culminated in his
promulgation as president for the second time (May 31, 1944) and from the first weeks of his
second presidency.
2616. Velasco Ibarra, Jos Mara. Conciencia o barbarie: exgesis de la poltica americana, 2
ed. Quito: Edit. Moderna, 1937. 284 p.
Also: Buenos Aires: Edit. Claridad, 1938. 201 p.
2617. Venta del territorio: artculos de la prensa del Ecuador. Quito: s.n., 1906. 40 p.
Reprints articles from El Tiempo and La Prensa libre from July 12-23, 1906, asserting and
denying that the administration of Eloy Alfaro had proposed selling the Galpagos and the
Oriente to foreign powers.
2618. Vera, Alfredo. Anhelo y pasin de la democracia ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Impr. de la
Universidad [para la] Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1948. 354 p.
2619. Villalobos, Fabio. Acerca del aperturismo y el proceso de industrializacin: notas sobre
el caso ecuatoriano, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 5:15/16 (1984), 173-195.
2620. Villalobos, Fabio. El proceso de industrializacin hasta los aos cincuenta, Nueva
historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 10, p. 71-86.
Outlines the history of industrialization from its beginnings in the late nineteenth century through
the 1950s. Companion piece to item 2507.
2621. Villamar M., Claudio. El Ecuador a comienzos del siglo. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1995. 80 p.
2622. V.M.A. El veinticinco de abril. Quito: Tip. de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1907. iv, 26
p.
2623. Weiser, B. Ecuador, Eight Years on Ararat: the Story of a South American Haven,
Commentary, 3:6 (June 1947), 531-536.
Consists of personal reflections on eight years of living and working (1938-1946) in Ecuador,
especially in Quito, by a Jewish immigrant.
2624. Wylie, Kathryn H. Ecuadors Agriculture and the War, Foreign Agriculture, 10:2 (Feb.
1946), 18-32.
2625. Wylie, Kathryn H. Ecuadors Forests and the War, Foreign Agriculture, 10:5 (May
1946), 75-80.
2626. Ziga, Neptal. Fenmenos de la realidad ecuatoriana. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin,
1940. 275 p.
The authors Tesis para optar el ttulo de profesor de enseanza secundaria y normal, en la
especializacin de historia, geografa y cuestiones econmico-sociales, en el Instituto Superior de
Pedagoga y Letras de Quito.
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
M ICHAEL T. HAM ERLY
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Quito: Edit. El Conejo; Fundacin Friedrich-Naumann, 1984. 249 p.
Contents: Luis Verdesoto, La primera vuelta presidencial: el conflicto principal de la actual
coyuntura; Alberto Acosta, Crisis econmica y proceso electoral; Manuel Chiriboga, Clases
sociales y lucha poltica en el Ecuador; Fernando Bustamante, La ideologa de los partidos
polticos ecuatorianos; Luis Verdesoto, Los programas de los partidos del centro poltico,
especial referencia al tema agrario; Vicente Martnez, La escena electoral; Paul Velasco, Los
gremios, los partidos y el gobierno durante 1983; Carlos Larrea y Silvia Sommaruga,
Participacin electoral, abstencin y consistencia de los resultados de la eleccin presidencial.
2628. A mi tambin me torturaron, [introduccin Edmundo Durn Daz], 1 ed. Quito: CEDHU;
El Conejo, 1991. 124 p.
2629. Achig S., Lucas. La reconstruccin social y el movimiento obrero ecuatoriano: ensayo
de coyuntura para la elaboracin de la historia del movimiento obrero ecuatoriano, Revista IDIS,
16 (nov. 1986), 81-123.
A study of the national strikes of 1984 and 1985, their antecedents, and consequences.
2630. Agee, Philip. Inside the Company: CIA Diary. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1975.
639 p.
Agee was stationed in Quito in the early 1960s. The section that treats Ecuador has been
published in Spanish as: Objetivo Ecuador: diario de la CIA (Quito: Movimiento Segunda
Independencia, 1977).
2631. Aguirre, Jos Manuel Agustn. Panorama poltico del Ecuador actual, Desarrollo
indoamericano, 15:59 (jun. 1980), 9-14.
2632. Aguirre, Jos Manuel Agustn. El proceso poltico del Ecuador, Economa (Quito), 75
(mayo 1980), 13-24.
2633. Albornoz, Miguel. La campaa de los cien das: una visin de los problemas del
Ecuador de hoy, 1 ed. Quito: Planeta, 1988. 204 p.
2634. Almanaque ecuatoriano 1990. Guayaquil: Edit. Pacfico, [1990?] 424 p.
Includes chronologies, an index of legislation for 1963-1989, political documents, and statistics.
2635. Anlisis de los procesos electorales, [edicin de] Agustn Grijalva y Jorge Ortega. Quito:
2655. Bocco, Arnaldo M. Ecuador: Economic Policy and Development Promotion during the
Petroleum Boom, 1972-1978, NS / Northsouth, 7:14 (1982), 43-65.
Also published in Spanish as: Ecuador, poltica econmica y estilos de desarrollo en la fase de
auge petrolero, 1972-1978, Desarrollo econmico (Buenos Aires), 22:88 (ene./mar. 1983), 485510.
2656. Bocco, Arnaldo M. Ecuador: Estado, finanzas pblicas y excedente petrolero (19721978), Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 4:14 (1982), 45-77.
2657. Bocco, Arnaldo M. Ecuador: the State, Public Policy and Capital Accumulation, 197083, The State and Capital Accumulation in Latin America, edited by Christian Anglade and
Carlos Fortn, vol. 2 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990), p. 88-105.
2658. Bonilla, Adrin. En busca del pueblo perdido: diferenciacin y discurso de la izquierda
marxista en los sesenta. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador;
Ediciones Abya-Yala, , 1991. 135 p.
2659. Borja Cevallos, Rodrigo. La tica del poder. Quito: Jorge Nuez Editor, 1992. 354 p.
2660. Borja Cevallos, Rodrigo. Socialismo democrtico, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Edit. Democrtica,
[1983?]. 124 p.
2661. Brownrigg, Leslie Ann. Interest Groups in Regime Changes in Ecuador, InterAmerican Economic Affairs, 28:1 (Summer 1974), 3-17.
2662. Buenao Cabrera, Ernesto. Crimen planificado. Quito: Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano,
[1985?]. 234 p.
Argues that the plane crash in which President Rolds died was not the result of an accident, but
deliberately engineered .
2663. Burgos, Dalton. Octubre 82: el ascenso del movimiento de masas y la encrucijada de la
direccin poltica. Quito: CEDIS, Centro de Estudios y Difusin Social, [1983?]. 66 p.
2664. Bustamante, Fernando. The Armed Forces of Colombia and Ecuador in Comparative
Perspective, Democracy under Siege: New Military Power in Latin America, edited by Augusto
Varas (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1989), p. 17-34.
Item 2664 appears to be the English version of item 2665.
2665. Bustamante, Fernando. El desarrollo institucional de las fuerzas armadas de Colombia y
Ecuador, La Autonoma militar en Amrica Latina, coordinacin de Augusto Varas (Caracas:
Edit. Nueva Sociedad, 1988), p. 83-108.
2666. Bustamante, Fernando. Fuerzas armadas en Ecuador: puede institucionalizarse la
subordinacin al poder civil?, Democracia y fuerzas armadas (Quito: Corporacin de Estudios
para el Desarrollo, 1988), p. 129-160.
Also published in: Sntesis: revista documental de ciencias sociales iberoamericanas (ene./abr.
1992), 179-202.
2667. Bustamante, Fernando. Los militares y la creacin de un nuevo orden democrtico en
Neoliberalism in the Central Andes. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. xii, 303 p.
A comparative study of political and economic developments in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru
during the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s. Although a laudable work in many respects,
Conaghan and Malloys Unsettling Statecraft suffers from a problem unfortunately altogether too
common in Social Scientific literature, questionable and debatable use of terminology, especially
when it comes to class. They employ the terms elite(s), oligarchy(ies), and bourgeoisie , for
example, as though they were one and the same. Furthermore, although Conaghan and Malloy
appear to recognize differences in class composition and interests from place to place and time to
time, they fail to delineate and explicate those differences. In fact, there is an absolute lack of
definition (qualitative as well as quantitative) of the various economic classes.
See also Conaghans Loose Parties, Floating Politicians, and Institutional Stress:
Presidentialism in Ecuador, 1979-1988, in The Failure of Presidential Democracy, edited by
Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1994), vol. 2,
The Case of Latin America, p. 328-359, and Party Politics and Democratization in Ecuador, in
Authoritarians and Democrats: Regime Transition in Latin America, edited by James M. Malloy
and Mitchell A. Seligson (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987), p. 146-163.
2680. Conaghan, Catherine M.; and Rosario Espinal. Unlikely Transitions to Uncertain
Regimes?: Democracy Without Compromise in the Dominican Republic and Ecuador, Journal
of Latin American Studies, 22:3 (Oct. 1990), 553-574.
Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this refreshingly more or less well written but not
ideologically free article is the recognition that the democratic regimes of the 1970s and 1980s in
countries such as the Dominican Republic and Ecuador defy customary definition and
conventional wisdom.
2681. Conaghan, Catherine M.; James M. Malloy; and Luis A. Abugattas. Business and the
Boys: the Politics of Neoliberalism in the Central Andes, Latin American Research Review,
25:2 (Spring 1990), 3-30.
A comparative study of the neoliberal regimes of Presidents Hurtado (1981-1984) and Febres
Cordero (1984-1988) of Ecuador, Paz Estenssoro (1985-1988) of Bolivia, and Belande-Terry
(1985-1988) of Per.
2682. El Congreso Nacional del Ecuador, 1986/88: su funcionamiento y atribuciones, los
nuevos diputados, la constitucin actualizada, el constitucionalismo ecuatoriano, [redaccin]
Hernn Salgado. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1986. 175 p.
2683. Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo (Ecuador). Plan nacional de desarrollo del gobierno
democrtico, ao 1980-1984. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo, 1980. 6 v.
There is also a versin popular: Otavalo: Edit. Gallocapitn, 1981.
2684. Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo (Ecuador). Secretara General de Planificacin.
Lineamientos generales para el Plan de desarrollo, 1984-1988, versin corr. Quito: Consejo
Nacional de Desarrollo, Secretara General de Planificacin, 1985. ii, 42 p.
2685. Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo (Ecuador). Secretara General de Planificacin. Plan
nacional de desarrollo 1985-1988. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo, Secretara General
de Planificacin, 1985. 4 v.
2686. Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo (Ecuador). Secretara General de Planificacin. Plan
nacional de desarrollo econmico y social, 1989-1992. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo,
Secretara General de Planificacin, 1989. 4 v.
2687. Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo (Ecuador). Secretara General de Planificacin. Plan
operativo 1985. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo, Secretara General de Planificacin,
1985. 6 v.
2688. Contreras Navas, Gilberto. El tringulo del poder. Quito: Impr. del Colegio Tcnico Don
Bosco, 1985. 229 p.
2689. Corkill, David. Democratic Politics in Ecuador, 1979-1984, Bulletin of Latin American
Research, 4:2 (1985), 63-74.
Examines political and economic developments during the Rolds and Hurtados regimes.
2690. Corkill, David. The Ecuadorian Labour Movement under Dictatorship and Democracy,
1975-1985, Journal of Area Studies, 13 (1986), 30-33.
Maintains that the traditionally weak labor movement was further weakened by the military
government of 1972-1979, and the civilian regimes of the 1980s through neglect on the one hand
and cooption on the other.
2691. Corkill, David. The Politics of Military Government in Ecuador: The Rodrguez Lara
Regime, 1972-1976, Bulletin of the Society for Latin American Studies, 26 (1977), 44-63.
2692. Corkill, David; and David Cubitt. Ecuador, Fragile Democracy. London: Latin
American Bureau (Research and Action), 1988. xxiv, 115 p.
One of the better surveys of late-twentieth-century developments in English. Focuses primarily
on economic, political, and social events of the 1960s, 1970s, and the first half of the 1980s.
2693. Cosse, Gustavo. Estado y agro en el Ecuador, 1960-1980. Quito: Corporacin Editora
Nacional, 1984. 112 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 1)
2694. Cosse, Gustavo. Reflexiones acerca del Estado, el proceso poltico y la poltica agraria
en el caso ecuatoriano, 1964-1977, Estudios rurales latinoamericanos, 3:1 (ene./abr. 1980), 5183.
2695. Cronologa: hechos polticos, sociales y econmicos en el gobierno de Osvaldo Hurtado,
1 ed. Quito: Centro de Estudios y Difusin Social, 1984. iv, 330 p.
2696. Cueva, Agustn. La crisis de los aos 60, Ecuador pasado y presente (item 572), p.
225-248.
2697. Cueva, Agustn. Crisis del capitalismo y perspectivas del nacionalismo en Amrica
Latina: anlisis del caso ecuatoriano. Mxico, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autnoma de
Mxico, Facultad de Ciencias Polticas y Sociales, Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos, 1976.
28 p.
Reprint; originally published as an article in: Revista mexicana de sociologa, 38:4 (oct./dic.
1976), 825--841.
2698. Cueva, Agustn. El Ecuador de 1960 a 1979, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615),
vol. 11, p. 149-179.
Continues regurgitation of item 2243. Also includes selections from Cuevas El proceso de
dominacin poltica (item 2246). As ideologically myopic as Cuevas other work.
2699. Cueva, Agustn. Ecuador, la qumera del petroleo y la encrucijada del nacionalismo
pequeoburgus. Mxico, D.F.: CELA, 1975. 19, 12 p.
2700. Chiriboga, Manuel. El Estado y las polticas hacia el sector rural (1979-1982), Ecuador
agrario: ensayos de interpretacin, 1 ed. (Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1984), p. 91-141.
2701. Chiriboga, Manuel. Movimiento campesino e indgena y participacin poltica en
Ecuador: la construccin de identidades en una sociedad heterognea, Sntesis: revista
documental de ciencias sociales iberoamericanas (ene./abr. 1992), 227-253.
2702. Damerval, Jaime Francisco. Semillas polticas. Guayaquil: [s.n.], 1988. 623 p.
Apparently this work, which I have not yet seen, is a treatise on the politics and political
economy of the 1970s and 1980s.
2703. Darlic Mardesic, Vjekoslav; and Santiago Escobar. Los gobiernos seccionales del
Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1986. 225 p.
2704. Dvila Alds, Francisco R. Las luchas por la hegemona y la consolidacin de la
burguesa en el Ecuador, 1972-1978. Mxico, D.F.: Universidad Nacional Autnoma de
Mxico, Facultad de Ciencias Polticas y Sociales, 1984. 247 p.
2705. Dvila Alds, Francisco R. Los partidos polticos tradicionales y el descenso de la
oligarqua en el Ecuador, Revista mexicana de sociologa, 43:3 (jul./sept. 1981), 1141-1168.
2706. Dvila Andrade, Oswaldo. Reflexiones entre dos siglos. Quito: Editora Delta, 1987. 175
p.
Reflections of an economist who played a leading role in development planning in Ecuador for
many years.
2707. Dvila Loor, Luis. Equateur, 1984: dception, espoir et retour en arrire, Amrique
latine, 19 (jui./sep. 1984), 12-16.
2708. De Janry, Alain; Elisabet Sadoulet; and Andr Fargeix. Politically Feasible and
Equitable Adjustment: Some Alternatives for Ecuador, World Development, 19:11 (Nov. 1991),
1577-1594.
Analyzes the political as well as the economic consequences of the efforts of the Febres Cordero
government to stabilize the public sector through spending reductions. In the process the authors
develop a computable general equilibrium model, more fully spelled out in item 7575.
2709. Una Dcada de opinin en el Ecuador: la pgina editorial de Hoy de 1982 a 1992,
estudio introductorio y seleccin, Samuel Guerra Bravo, Susana Hidalgo Saa. Quito: Hoy, 1992.
318 p.
A compilation of editorials and cartoons from Hoy, satirizing political and social conditions.
2710. Defina, Abel. Un gobierno ...: sus problemas y una respuesta, 1 ed. Quito: Editora
General del Ecuador, 1989. 161 p.
2711. Del indigenismo a las organizaciones indgenas. Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala, 1985. 179
p.
2712. Deler, Jean Paul. Estructuras espaciales del Ecuador contemporneo (1960-1980),
Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 12, p. 73-134.
Reprints appropriate sections of Ecuador del espacio al estado nacional (item 564).
2713. Delgado Jara, Diego. ID + DP: que mismo le toca al pueblo?, 1 ed. Quito: CEDEP,
1989. 75 p.
2714. Democracia Popular. Democracia Popular: el Comit de Base. Quito: Departamento de
Capacitacin de la Democracia Popular, 1981. 110 p.
2715. Los Derechos humanos en Ecuador, investigacin y recopilacin de datos de Remigio
Rivera y Juan Ortz. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales, 1987. 358 p.
Delineates human rights violations by the government of Ecuador between 1984 and 1986.
2716. Dilogo, pueblo, gobierno. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1984. 149 p.
El presente trabajo se basa en el anlisis de las cinco presentaciones televisadas del Presidente
de la Repblica, Dr. Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea--p. 9.
2717. Directorio nacional de autoridades. Ecuador: Producciones Editorales, 1986. 182 p.
Includes provincial office holders and heads of private sector enterprises. See also item 2774.
2718. Documentos indios: declaraciones y pronunciamientos, Jos E. Juncosa, compilador.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991-. <2> v.
2719. Drekonja, Gerhard. Ecuador, How to Handle the Banana Republic Turned Oil State,
Boletn de estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 28 (jun. 1980), 77-94.
2720. Durn Balln, Csar. Frente al futuro: temas tratados en los escritos, conferencias y
entrevistas en los ltimos seis aos. Guayaquil: Edit. Amauta, 1979. vii, 233 p.
2721. Echeverra Gavilanes, Enrique. Secuestro, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1988. 186 p.
Regarding the authors kidnaping in 1986 for alleged political crimes and offenses.
2722. La Economa poltica del Ecuador: campo, regin, nacin, editor, Louis Lefeber. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1985. 460 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 6)
2723. Ecuador. Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica. Evaluacin de
polticas, objetivos y metas: plan integral de transformacin y desarrollo 73-77. Quito: Junta
Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1978. v, 171 p.
2724. Ecuador. Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica. Lineamientos
fundamentales del plan integral de transformacin y desarrollo, 1973-1977. Quito: Junta
agregados de las votaciones realizadas entre 1978 y 1980; Composicin por tendencias en la
eleccin de representantes nacionales; Composicin de la votacin cantonal en las elecciones
de concejales cantonales y consejeros provinciales de 1980.
2748. Elecciones, ideologas y programas polticos, Ernesto Albn [et al.]. Quito: Corporacin
Editora Nacional, 1994. 247 p.
Latest edition as of Dec. 1995, of Vote sabiendo (items 2904 and 2961). Revised and updated.
Includes two new essays by Enrique Ayala Mora on Los sistemas electorales contemporneos
and Ernesto Albn Gmez on Evolucin del sistema electoral ecuatoriano.
2749. Emanuel Morn, Carlos Julio. Estrategia econmica frente a la crisis. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1985. 47 p.
2750. Emanuel Morn, Carlos Julio. La poltica econmica del gobierno nacional. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1985. 48 p.
2751. Emanuel Morn, Carlos Julio. Respuesta a la crisis: polticas aplicadas por el Banco
Central del Ecuador a partir del 10 de agosto de 1984. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1985.
57 p.
2752. Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y Social del Ecuador y Amrica Latina (6:
1989: Cuenca, Ecuador). VI Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y Social del Ecuador
y Amrica Latina (13-18 noviembre 1989): seminario internacional: democracia y alternativas
de poder en Ecuador y Amrica Latina, Mara Cristina Crdenas Reyes, coordinadora. Cuenca:
Universidad de Cuenca, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 1991. 284 p.
N.B. Apparently it was with this meeting that the Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y
Social del Ecuador became the Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y Social del
Ecuador y Amrica Latina.
2753. Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y Social del Ecuador y Amrica Latina (6:
1989: Cuenca, Ecuador). VI Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y Social del Ecuador
y Amrica Latina (13-18 noviembre 1989): seminario internacional: pensamiento y prctica del
movimiento obrero latinoamericano y ecuatoriano en los aos ochenta y sus perspectivas en la
prxima dcada, Lucas Achig Suba, coordinador. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales, 1991. 3 v.
See also: Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y Social del Ecuador y Amrica Latina
(6: 1989: Cuenca, Ecuador). Los campesinos en el proceso latinoamericano de los aos
ochenta y sus perspectivas, coordinacin de Ivn Gonzlez Aguirre. Cuenca: Universidad de
Cuenca, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 1991. 2 v. (510 p.) About half of the
contributions to which set focus on various aspects of the peasantry and modernization (vol. 1)
and peasant conflicts and movements (vol. 2) in Ecuador.
2754. Espinosa Ramn, Petronio. Crisis econmica, clases sociales y poltica en el Ecuador:
elementos para su anlisis, Politcnica (Quito), 12:3 (1987), 43-63.
2755. El Estado y la economa: polticas econmicas y clases sociales en el Ecuador y Amrica
Latina, introduccin y compilacin de Lucas Pacheco; artculos de Cristin Seplveda [et al.], 1
ed. Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas, Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador,
1983. 443 p.
2756. Estado, poltica y democracia en el Ecuador, Adrin Carrasco [et al.], 1 ed. Quito: Edit.
El Conejo; Cuenca: IDIS, 1988. 255 p.
2757. Estupin de Burbano, Patricia. Recuento del perodo 1979-1990, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 11, p. 319-354.
A solid review of political and economic developments of the twelve years in question.
2758. Etnia, poder y diferencia en los Andes septentrionales, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1990. 215 p.
2759. Febres Cordero, Len. Autopsia de una traicin. Quito: Editora General del Ecuador,
1989. 210, xvi p.
Responds to Peaherrera Padillas El viernes negro (item 2878).
2760. Febres Cordero, Len. El pensamiento de Len Febres Cordero, [seleccin por] Ramiro
Rivera, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Culturales-UNP, 1986. 272 p.
2761. Fellner, Jaime; Wendy Gimbel; and Diego Garca Sayn. Human rights in Ecuador. New
York: Americas Watch Committee; Lima: Andean Commission of Jurists, 1988. 86 p.
2762. Fernndez Espinosa, Ivn; and Gonzalo Ortiz Crespo. La agona del populismo?:
informe urgente sobre las elecciones presidenciales de 1988, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. Plaza Grande,
1988. 168 p.
Explores the defeat of Abdal Bucaram in the 1988 elections. Focuses primarily on dynamics of
the campaign and the major players.
2763. Field, Les W. Ecuadors Pan-Indian Uprising, NACLA Report on the Americas, 25:3
(Dec. 1991), 39-44.
2764. Franco, Galo. Traicin en Taura. Quito: [s.n.], 1987. 2 v.
2765. Galarza Arizaga, Rafael. Esquema poltico del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Edit. Alborada,
1963. 198 p.
2766. Galarza Izquierdo, Luis. Ensayo poltico sobre clases sociales y partidos polticos en el
Ecuador. Quito: Ctedras Ciencia Poltica y Derecho Constitucional, U.C., 1984. iv, 239 p.
2767. Galarza Izquierdo, Luis. Partidocracia y descomposicin de la clase poltica
ecuatoriana: separata de la investigacin CONUEP: clases sociales y partidos polticos del
Ecuador 1992, 1 ed. Quito: CONUEP, 1992. 374 p.
2768. Galarza Izquierdo, Luis. La trampa burguesa del progresismo poltico en el Ecuador: la
Doctrina Rolds y el progreso de desestabilizacin del regimen poltico: motivos de su
muerte, 1 ed. Quito: Editorial Universitaria, 1986 [i.e., 1988]. 268 p.
Cover title: La trampa burguesa del centro poltico en el Ecuador, 1979-1986.
2769. Galarza Zavala, Jaime. Ecuador, el oro y la pobreza, Ecuador hoy (item 2734), p. 9-18.
2770. Galarza Zavala, Jaime. El festn del petroleo. Quito: Ediciones Solitierra, 1972. 311 p.
Most recent known ed.: 6a ed. Quito: Edit. Alberto Crespo Encalada, 1981. 462 p.
2771. Galarza Zavala, Jaime. Quienes mataron a Rolds?, 2 ed. Quito: Ediciones Solitierra,
1982. iv, 232 p.
2772. Garaycoa, Xavier; and Luis Emilio Veintimilla. Defending Democracy and Fighting for
the Working Peoples Rights, World Marxist Review, 29:5 (May 1986), 93-99.
The authors are members of the Partido Comunista del Ecuador.
2773. Gobierno y poltica en el Ecuador contemporneo, edicin de Luis Verdesoto. Quito:
Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1991. 558 p.
A basic reader on standard political themes by several leading social scientists, including Agustn
Cueva, Osvaldo Hurtado, and Amparo Mendndez-Carrin.
2774. Los Gobiernos seccionales del Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano de
Investigaciones Sociales; Vicepresidencia de la Repblica; Programa Nacional de
Desburocratizacin, 1986. 225 p.
A directory of national, provincial, cantonal, and municipal divisions and autonomous agencies
of the state and of their officeholders as of 1986.
2775. Granda Aguilar, Vctor. En defensa de la dignidad nacional: interpelacin del diputado
Vctor Granda A. al Ministro de Defensa General Medardo Salazar N. Quito: Ediciones La
Tierra, 1989. 70 p.
2776. Granda Aguilar, Vctor. Informe al XLII Congreso del PSE. Quito: Ediciones La Tierra,
1989. 60 p.
2777. Granda Arciniega, Daniel. La modernizacin del Estado y las fuerzas armadas del
Ecuador. Quito: Concejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologa: Centro de Investigaciones para el
Desarrollo, 1992. 158 p.
2778. Grayson, George W. Populism, Petroleum and Politics in Ecuador, Current History,
68:401 (Jan. 1975), 15-19, 39-40.
2779. Guerrero, Andrs. Haciendas, capital y lucha de clases andinas: disolucin de la
hacienda serrana y lucha poltica en los aos 1960-1964, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1983.
146 p.
2780. Guerrero, Fernando. Algo ms sobre Taura, las amnistas y el Congreso, 86-88.
Riobamba: Edit. Pedaggica Freire, [1989?]. 51 p.
2781. La Gua del ciudadano. Quito: ILDIS, 1983. 193 p.
2782. Handelman, Howard. The Dilemma of Ecuadorian Democracy. Hanover, New
Hampshire: Universities Field Staff International, 1984. 3 v. (UFSI reports; 1984/no. 34-36).
Contents: pt. 1, Jaime Rolds and the Politics of Deadlock; pt. 2, Hurtado and the Debt Trap; pt.
3, The 1983-84 Presidential Elections.
2783. Handelman, Howard. Ecuador: A New Political Direction. Hanover, New Hampshire:
American Universities Field Staff, 1979. 24 p. (Reports; 1979/no. 47)
2784. Handelman, Howard. Ecuadorian Agrarian Reform: The Politics of Limited Change.
Hanover, New Hampshire: American Universities Field Staff, 1980. 19 p. (Reports; 1980/no.
49)
2785. Hanson, David Parker. Political Decision Making in Ecuador: The Influence of Business
Groups. 1971. xi, 378 leaves. Ph.D. thesis--University of Michigan.
2786. Hidalgo Ruales, Diego; and Fabin Navarro Dvila. La burocracia pblica en el
Ecuador. Quito: Fundacin Friedrich Naumann: Asociacin Latinoamericana Pblica, Seccin
Nacional Ecuatoriana, 1988.
2787. Hidalgo V., Francisco; Eduardo Gordillo R.; and Eduardo Valencia V. Innovaciones de
polticas econmicas y comportamiento de los actores sociales en el contexto de la crisis, 19801987: el caso ecuatoriano, Haca un nuevo orden estatal en Amrica Latina?: los actores
socioeconmicos del adjuste estructural, coordinacin de Mario R. dos Santos y Fernando
Caldern (Buenos Aires: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 1988), vol. 3, p. 289343.
A solid survey of the political economy and socioeconomic conditions during the 1980s.
2788. Hoffmann, Karl-Dieter. Militrherrschaft und Entwicklund in der Dritten Welt: der Fall
Ecuador unter besonderer Bercksichtigung des Militrregimes 1972-1979. Saarbrcken:
Breitenbach, 1985. 670 p.
A doctoral dissertation on military intervention and participation in Ecuadorian politics.
2789. Hurtado, Osvaldo. Democracia y crisis. Quito: Secretara Nacional de Informacin
Pblica: Corporacin de Estudios para el Desarrollo, 1984-1985. 12 v.
A set of basic sources on the Rolds-Hurtado and Hurtado administrations.
2790. Hurtado, Osvaldo. La dictatura civil, 1 ed. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana de Estudios
Sociales, 1988. 525 p.
Not surprisingly Hurtado extolls the accomplishments of his administration and condemns the
regime of his successor Febres Cordero.
2791. Hurtado, Osvaldo. Dos dilogos sobre el futuro. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana de
Estudios Sociales, 1992. 83 p.
2792. Hurtado, Osvaldo. Gobernabilidad y reforma constitucional. Quito: Corporacin Editora
Nacional, 1993. 92 p.
2793. Hurtado, Osvaldo. Poltica democrtica. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana de Estudios
Sociales; Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1990. 2 v.
Contents: vol. 1. Los ltimos veinticinco aos (264 p.); vol. 2. Testimonios, 1964-1989 (506 p.).
2794. Hurtado, Osvaldo. La victoria del no: crnica de un plebiscito. Quito: FESO, 1986. 245
p.
A detailed analysis of the 1986 elections by a professional social scientist as well as a former
president of the country.
2795. Ibarra Illnez, Alicia. Los indgenas y el Estado en el Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Edciones
Abya-Yala, 1987. 261 p.
See also her Los indios del Ecuador y su demanda frente al Estado, Boletn de antropologa
americana, 26 (dic. 1992), 69-85.
2796. Indios: una reflexin sobre el levantamiento indgena de 1990, Ileana Almeida [et al.].
Quito; ILDIS; El Duende: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 527 p.
Examines conditions underlying the June 1990 Indian uprising.
2797. Isaacs, Anita. Military Rule and Transition in Ecuador, 1972-92. Pittsburgh: University
of Pittsburgh Press, 1993. xii, 178 p.
Primarily an analysis of authoritarianism and civil-military relations during the Rodrguez Lara
years (1972-1976) and secondarily of the subsequent return to and consolidation of democratic
government.
2798. Isaacs, Anita. Problems of Democratic Consolidation in Ecuador, Bulletin of Latin
American Research, 10:2 (1991), 221-238.
A preliminary version of final chapter of item 2797.
2799. Jcome, Nicanor. Evolucin de la poltica social ecuatoriana, 1963-1979, Revista
interamericana de planificacin, 17:68 (dic. 1983), 183-193.
2800. Jcome, Nicanor; and Patricio Moncayo. Partidos polticos y programas del gobierno del
Ecuador. Quito: Centro de Estudios Sociales Latinoamericanos CESLA, 1979. 104 p.
2801. Jaramillo, Marco. Ecuador, impacto de las polticas econmicas sobre el medio rural
1964-1985, Economa (Quito), 84 (mar. 1987), 71-123.
2802. Jarrn Jarrn, Ricardo Arturo. Alfaro Vive, Carajo!: el cementerio de los vivos:
testimonio, 2 ed. Mxico, D.F.: Ediciones Patria Nueva, 1988. 76 p.
2803. Larrea Maldonado, Carlos; and M. Silvia Sommaruga. Las elecciones presidenciales del
Ecuador: participacin y consistencia de los resultados de la primera vuelta presidencial, 1 ed.
Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Quito, 1984. 40 p.
2804. Lawson, Victoria A. Government Policy Biases and Ecuadorian Agricultural Change,
Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 78:3 (Sept. 1988), 433-452.
Examines interplay between national policy, agricultural production, and economic change by
regions.
2805. Lawson, Victoria A. National Economic Policies, Local Variations in Structure of
Production, and Uneven Regional Development: the Case of Ecuador. 1986. x, 128 leaves.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University.
2806. Len Gonzlez, Carlos. La ideologa ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Edit. Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1991. 228 p.
social institutions and learned behaviors that [in Ecuador] needs to be build practically from
scratch . . .
2818. Maldonado, John. Taura: lo que no se ha dicho, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1988. 144
p.
2819. Maldonado Lince, Guillermo. La reforma agraria en el Ecuador, Cahiers du monde
hispanique et luso-brsilien (Caravelle), 34 (1980), 33-56.
Analyzes the Ley de reforma agraria of 1973 and its implementation through 1979. The author
is a former Minister of Agriculture.
2820. Manual de gobierno de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Instituto de Estudios
Administrativos, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas y Administrativas, Universidad Central del
Ecuador, 1962. 348 p.
2821. Martnez Estrada, Alejandro. Ecuador, estado de emergencia. [Quito?: s.n., 1986].
184 p.
2822. Martz, John D. Ecuador, Conflicting Political Culture and the Quest for Progress.
Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1972. viii, 216 p.
A solid essay on political developments of the 1950s and 1960s. Martz is careful to take into
account the demographic, economic, and social aspects of political culture. Better written than
his Politics and petroleum (item 2828).
2823. Martz, John D. Ecuador, the Right Takes Command, Current History, 84:499 (Feb.
1985), 69-72, 84-85.
On the first six months of the Febres Cordero regime and the problems facing his administration.
See also item 2823.
2824. Martz, John D. Electoral Campaigning and Latin American Democratization: the
Grancolombian Experience, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 32:1 (Spring
1990), 17-43.
A comparative study of national politics and presidential elections in Venezuela, Colombia, and
Ecuador during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
2825. Martz, John D. Instability in Ecuador, Current History, 87:525 (Jan. 1988), 17-20, 3738.
On the Febres Cordero regime. Continues item 2823.
2826. Martz, John D. Marxism in Ecuador, Inter-American Economic Affairs, 33:1 (Summer
1979), 3-28.
2827. Martz, John D. The Military in Ecuador: Policies and Politics of Authoritarian Rule.
Albuquerque: Latin American Institute, University of New Mexico, 1988. 66 p. (Occasional
Paper Series; no. 3)
Primarily concerned with the years 1972-1979.
2828. Martz, John D. Politics and Petroleum in Ecuador. New Brunswick: Transaction Books,
2842. Moncada, Jos. Dos decenios se van, una crisis se queda. Quito: Corporacin Editora
Nacional: CIPAD, Publicaciones Tercer Mundo, 1988. 131 p.
2843. Moncada, Jos. La economa ecuatoriana de los sesenta a los ochenta, Nueva historia
del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 11, p. 55-95.
A solid review of the political economy of the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s by an exceptionally
literate and prolific economist.
2844. Moncada, Jos. Ecuador, integracin mundial o desintegracin nacional? Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1992. 126 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 39)
2845. Moncada, Jos. Ecuador, los lmites del (sub)desarrollo. Quito: CEDEP, 1989. 136 p.
Items 2843 and 2844 are critiques of the Rodrigo Borja (1988-1992) government by a prominent
economist and spokesperson of the Left.
2846. Moncagatta, Juan Pablo. Democracia Popular: invitacin a una busqueda. Quito:
Empresa Editora Porvenir, 1986. 84 p.
2847. Moncayo, Patricio. Ecuador, grietas en la dominacin. Quito: [s.n.], 1977. 256 p.
2848. Moncayo, Patricio. Evolucin de la estructura de poder en el Ecuador actual, Cultura,
2:4 (mayo./ago. 1979), 197-219.
2849. Moncayo, Patricio. Reforma o democracia: alternativas del sistema poltico ecuatoriano.
Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1982. 201 p.
2850. Montero, Nely. Cronologa: hechos polticos, sociales y econmicos en el gobierno de
Osvaldo Hurtado. Quito: Centro de Estudios y Difusin Social, 1984. 330 p.
2851. Moreano, Alejandro. El proceso de formacin del nuevo regimen poltico. Quito: Centro
de Estudios y Difusin Social, [1981?]. ii, 72 p.
2852. Moreano, Alejandro. El sistema poltico en el Ecuador contemporneo, Nueva historia
del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 11, p. 181-219.
2853. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E.; and Jos Figueroa. El levantamiento indgena del Inti Raymi
de 1990. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales, 1992. 160 p.
2854. Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria (Ecuador). La crisis del proyecto
socialdemcrata. Quito: Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria, 1980. 177 p.
2855. Movimiento obrero del Ecuador, 1970-1979: documentos, recopilacin de Elas Muoz
Vicua y Leonardo Vicua Izquierdo. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1985. 300 p.
2856. Las Nacionalidades indgenas en el Ecuador: nuestro proceso organizativo, 2. ed., rev. y
aum. Quito: Editorial TINCUI/CONAIE: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1989. 317 p.
Outlines the history, structure, ideologies, and demands of the organizations that make up the
Confederacin de Nacionalidades Indgenas del Ecuador (CONAIE).
2857. Narvez Quionez, Ivn. Flexibilizacin laboral y crisis. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana
de Estudios Sociales, 1992. 236 p.
introduccin de Lucas Pacheco (Quito: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Instituto de
Investigaciones Econmicas, 1983), p. 115-144.
2872. Pez, Alexei. La nueva derecha ecuatoriana, Sntesis: revista documental de ciencias
sociales iberoamericanas (ene./abr. 1992), 169-178.
2873. Paredes Avila, Eduardo. La oligarqua y la crisis. Quito: Centro de Estudio y Difusin
Social, 1985. 116 p. (Serie la economa ecuatoriana de los ltimos aos; no. 2)
2874. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. Democracia o demagogia en el Ecuador, Combate (San
Jos, Costa Rica), 3:15 (mar./abr. 1961), 18-27.
2875. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. Teora y prctica del conductor conducido, Combate (San
Jos, Costa Rica), 4:20 (ene./feb. 1962), 9-23.
2876. Los Partidos polticos: documentos bsicos. Quito: Tribunal Supremo Electoral;
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1989. 350 p. (Elecciones y democracia en el Ecuador; 2)
A basic reference work on history and ideology of the currently important political parties. See
also items 2896 and 5469.
2877. Peaherrera Padilla, Blasco. Controversia. Quito: Artes Grficas Senefelder, 1987. 450
p.
2878. Peaherrera Padilla, Blasco. El viernes negro, 3 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo 1988. 191 p.
An anti-Febres Cordero diatribe, to which the former president responded in Autopsia de una
traicin (item 2759). Also a best seller in that it went through three editions in the same year
that it appeared.
2879. El Pensamiento de ARNE. Quito: Industrias Grficas CYMA, 1969. 267 p.
2880. Prez Romo-Leroux, Santiago. Crisis externa y planificacin en Ecuador, 1980-1984, 1
ed. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1985. 104 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 8)
2881. Prez Sinz, Juan Pablo. Clase obrera y democracia en el Ecuador. Quito: Edit. El
Conejo, 1985. 208 p.
Includes a survey of the history of the urban working class since World War II.
2882. Los Placeres del poder, Mara Arboleda [et al.]. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1986. 247 p.
A critical review of the first half of the Febres Cordero administration.
2883. La Poltica econmica del gobierno de Febres Cordero. Quito: Centro de Estudios y
Difusin Social, 1986. 84 p.
Also available in a 2 ed. Quito: Centro de Estudios y Difusin Social, 1988. 84 p.
2884. Poltica econmica, Estado y lucha de clases en el Ecuador, perodo 1972-1975, Revista
ciencias sociales (Quito), 1:3/4 (1977), 13-76.
2885. Poltica estatal y poblacin indgena, Ministerio de Bienestar Social, Oficina Nacional de
Asuntos Indgenas. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1984. 517 p.
Papers presented at the 1984 Seminario sobre Poltica Estatal y Poblacin Indgena, sponsored by
the Ministerio de Bienestar Social and the Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo.
2886. The Political Feasibility of Adjustment in Ecuador and Venezuela, by Alain de Janry [et
al.]. Paris: Development Centre of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and
Development, 1994. 155 p.
2887. Politically Feasible and Equitable Adjustment: Some Alternatives for Ecuador, Alain de
Janry [et al.], World Development, 19:11 (Nov. 1991), 1577-1594.
2888. Polticas sociales, desarrollo y compensacin social, Alberto Acosta [et al.]. Quito:
Grupo de Trabajo sobre Dueda Externa y Desarrollo-FONDAD, 1993. 243 p.
2889. Los Polticos y los indgenas: diez entrevistas a candidatos presidenciales y mximos
representantes de partidos polticos del Ecuador sobre la cuestin indgena, Erwin H. Frank,
Ninfa Patio y Marta Rodrguez. Quito: ILDIS, 1992. viii, 160 p.
Interviews with Enrique Ayala Mora (Partido Socialista Ecuatoriano), Abdal Bucaram Ortiz
(Partido Roldosista Ecuatoriano), Cecilia Caldern (Partido Frente Radical Alfarista), Alberto
Dahik (Partido Conservador), Jaime Hurtado (Partido Movimiento Popular Democrtico), Ren
Mauge (Partido Frente Amplio de Izquierda), Jamil Mahuad (Partido Democracia Popular),
Jaime Nebot (Partido Social Cristiano), Flavio Torres (Partido Liberal Ecuatoriano), and Andrs
Vallejo (Partido Izquierda Democrtica).
2890. Ponce Enrquez, Camilo. Discursos y alocuciones pronunciados durante la campaa
electoral y los primeros meses de gobierno. Quito: Editora Nacional, 1986. 377 p.
2891. Populismo, Blasco Peaherrera Padilla [et al.]. Quito: ILDIS; El Duende; Ediciones
Abya-Yala 1992. 213 p.
2892. Un Presidente, un pueblo, una obra. Quito: Secretara Nacional de Informacin Pblica,
1985. 66 p.
On the presidency of Len Febres Cordero.
2893. Principios ideolgicos y planes de gobierno de los partidos polticos de la Repblica del
Ecuador. Quito: Tribunal Supremo Electoral, 1981. 289 p.
Official philosophies and platforms of the sixteen political parties as of 1981.
2894. Proao, Franklin. Desequilibrios de la balanza de pagos y polticas cambiarias en el
Ecuador, 1972-1985. Quito: Corporacin de Estudios para el Desarrollo, 1987. 46 p.
2895. Proao Maya, Marco. Yo, CFP: ensayo poltico. Quito: [s.n.], 1980. 277 p.
2896. El Proceso electoral ecuatoriano. Quito: Tribunal Supremo Electoral: Corporacin
Editora Nacional, 1989. 183 p. (Elecciones y democracia en el Ecuador; 1)
Includes retrospective data. See also items 2876 and 5469.
2897. Pueblos indios, Estado y derecho, Enrique Ayala Mora [et al.]. Quito: Corporacin
Editora Nacional, 1992. 226 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 36)
2898. Pyne, Peter. Legislature and Development: The Case of Ecuador, 1960-1961,
2923. Sandoval Peralta, Carlos. Poltica cambiara en el Ecuador, 1970-1986. Quito: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1987. 123 p.
2924. Santana, Roberto. Actores y escenarios tnicos en Ecuador: el levantamiento de 1990,
Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brsilien (Caravelle), 59 (1992), 161-188.
Santana argues that the June 1990 uprising represents a turning point in the struggle for the
preservation and revitalization of native rights as espoused by the Confederacin Nacional de
Indgenas del Ecuador (CONAIE). Maintains that the uprising revealed the limits of CONAIEs
ability to bargain with the state and to utilize mass mobilization as an agency.
2925. Santos, Guillermo Manuel. La conspiracin, 1 ed. Quito: Letra Nueva, [1982?]. 117 p.
2926. Santos Alvite, Eduardo. Ecuador, hacia el diseo de una teora del desarrollo humano,
1 ed. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, Facultad de Jurisprudencia, Ciencias Polticas y
Sociales, Escuela de Ciencias Internacionales, 1983. 156 p.
2927. Santos Alvite, Eduardo. Ecuador, la dcada de los noventa: principales desafos. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional: Colegio de Economistas de Quito, 1993. 86 p.
2928. Santos Alvite, Eduardo; and Mariana Mora Duque. Ecuador, la dcada de los ochenta:
crisis econmica y ensayo neoliberal. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1987. 122 p.
(Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 19)
Criticizes the economic policies of the Febres Cordero administration (1984-1988).
2929. Sarmiento Palacio, Eduardo. Hacia un modelo de crecimiento equitativo: ensayos
recientes, 1 ed. Bogot: Facultad de Economa, Universidad de los Andes, 1987. 228 p.
2930. Schmidt, Wolgang. Discurso poltico y coyuntura econmica en Ecuador, Estudios
andinos (Lima), 19 (1983), 3-26.
2931. Schodt, David W. Austerity Policies in Ecuador: Christian Democratic and Social
Christian Versions of the Gospel, Paying the Costs of Austerity in Latin America, edited by
Howard Handelman and Werner Baer (Boulder: Westview Press, 1989), p. 171-194.
2932. Schodt, David W. Ecuador, an Andean Enigma. Boulder: Westview Press, 1987. xvi,
188 p.
A thoughtful, well informed analysis and interpretation of late-twentieth-century economic and
political developments by a North American economist.
2933. Schodt, David W. State Structure and Reformist Politics: Ecuador during the Petroleum
Period, 1972-1983, SECOLAS Annals, 17 (Mar. 1986), 73-94.
Examines the impact of the oil boom on social and political developments, especially state
projects for the poor and the increase in the financing of public services. Also published as a
separate under the title: The Ecuadorian Petroleum Sector during the Petroleum Period, 19721983. Austin: Office for Public Sector Studies, The Institute of Latin American Studies, The
University of Texas at Austin, 1986. 21 p.
2934. El Secuestro del poder, Fernando Artieda [et al.],1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1987. 118
p.
Examines the frustrated attempt by Air Force General Frank Vargas Pazzos to seize the
presidency by seizing the president.
2935. Seminario Internacional: Metas de la Ayuda al Desarrollo: Acciones para un Cambio
Socio-econmico del Ecuador. Quito: INEDES, [1973?]. xi, 126 p.
Contents: Fernando Velasco, Crecimiento econmico-social del Ecuador; Oswaldo Hurtado,
Diagnstico socio-poltico del Ecuador; INEDES, Anlisis cuantitativo de la educacin; Luis
Lpez, Situacin fiscal del Ecuador; Jos Vicente Eguiguren, Iglesia y promocin en el
Ecuador; INEDES, Orientaciones para el cambio socio-econmico; Heinz-Bernd Knuvener,
El Tercer Mundo desde la perspectiva del mundo desarrollado.
2936. Sevilla Salgado, Juan. Diario de un cambio poltico: enero 1979-mayo 1981. Quito:
Impr. del Colegio Tcnico Don Bosco, 1984. 171 p.
2937. Sierra Castro, Enrique. El estilo de la planificacin en el Ecuador: antecedentes,
problemas y perspectivas. Quito: CORDES (Corporacin de Estudios para el Desarrollo), 1988.
44 p.
2938. Silva Luvecce, Jorge. El militarismo en la accin poltica nacional, Economa (Quito),
74 (dic. 1979), 50-102.
2939. Silva Luvecce, Jorge. Nacionalismo y petrleo en el Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Universitaria,
1976. 236 p.
Also published under the title: Ecuador 1976: fracas el nacionalismo?
2940. Tafur, Marco. La relacin estado-empresa privada a travs de las transferencias
financieras: los signos de la acumulacin. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, Facultad de
Ciencias Econmicas, Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas, 1991. 163 p.
2941. Tern, Juan Fernando. AVC: revelaciones y reflexiones sobre una guerrilla inconclusa?
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, 1994. 250 p.
2942. Thoumi, Francisco E. The Hidden Logic of Irrational Economic Policies in Ecuador,
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 32:1 (Summer 1990), 43-68.
Argues the nation needs more rather than less state intervention in the economy to promote
development, that is to say, to create the conditions necessary for sustained growth, especially if
the country is to become regionally competitive and socially equitable. Critical of recent
administrations yet sanguine as to possibilities.
2943. Ulloa Vernimmen, Jos. Taura, patologa de un complot: la verdad documentad.
Guayaquil: Edit. Tercer Milenio, 1989. vii, 218 p.
2944. Urriola, Rafael. Crisis, FMI y neo-liberalismo. Quito: Centro de Planificacin y Estudios
Sociales, 1984. 80 p.
2945. Vallejo, Carlos. Polticas estatales de comercializacin agropecuaria, 1980-1986.
Quito: Corporacin de Estudios para el Desarrollo, [1987?]. 34, [62] p.
2946. Van Dongen, Toine. The Restrepo Case: Murky Waters, Human Rights Quarterly, 14:3
(Aug. 1992), 289-302.
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
ESTUDIOS HISTORIOGRAFICOS
Y RELACIONADOS
This section is given over to published materials having to do with the study and
teaching of the Humanities and the Social Sciences in Ecuador as well as
historiographical studies per se. Only a few books and articles on the study and
teaching of the Humanities appear because there do not seem to have been more than
a handful published before 1996. Apparently this is because the Humanities, with the
notable exception of Literature, did not attract nearly as much attention in Ecuador as
History and the Social Sciences, at least not during the last third of the twentieth
century.
Interestingly enough national historiography did not generate all that much in the way of
publications either. There were many studies, however, of Ecuadorian historians,
mostly biographical in nature. Until the 1970s, history in Ecuador was dominated by
self-taught men of letters who were usually also men of action. Scholars of the latetwentieth century, mostly professionally trained, were often actively involved in politics
too. Therefore almost all Ecuadorian writers of history have also been makers of
history. Hence it is not surprising that not only have traditional Ecuadorian historians
largely concerned themselves with persons and politics, but that the majority of writermakers of history, including the professionally trained, should in turn be the subject of
numerous biographies. Post-1974 lives of the writer-makers of history are cited below
under Biographies as are older works of continuing importance. For a more complete
listing of pre-1975 studies of Ecuadorian historians see Norriss Gua bibliogrfica (item
150), p. 14-26.
The best survey of the traditional historiography of Ecuador was Adam Szszdis 1964
article, now available in Spanish as well as in the original English (item 288). The best
introduction to the new history, on the other hand, was Jorge Nez Snchezs 1994
La historiografa ecuatoriana (item 265). Nez Snchezs study is primarily concerned
with the nature of history and the difficulty of being a historian in Ecuador in the latetwentieth century. His discussion of la institucionalidad existente is especially
informative and enlightening.
The only comprehensive review of recent work on the colonial period was Rosemarie
Terns contribution to the 1993 Congreso Ecuatoriano de Historia (item 291), but see
also Christiana Borchart de Moreno and Segundo E. Moreno Ynezs outstanding
analysis of the new historiography on the eighteenth century (item 208). On the
national period see Juan J. Paz y Mio Cepedas contribution to the 1993 Congreso
(item 270). On historiographic developments of the first half of the twentieth century,
see item 2421.
Another study of some importance is Jeffrey Klaibers Estudios recientes sobre la
Iglesia en Per, Bolivia y Ecuador: un balance historiogrfico, Histrica (Lima), 19:2,
dic. 1995, p. 251-280. N.B. Klaiber includes studies of the history of Protestantism in
the central Andean republics. Two other articles of interest are: Heraclio Bonillas
Progresos y dilemas de la historiografa en el Ecuador: primera parte, Nariz del diablo,
16 (1990)--not yet seen by me--and Vctor Peralta Ruizs La historia en el Ecuador
(1980-1990) (item 272). Professionally trained scholars, Bonilla and Peralta Ruiz are
Peruvians and therefore bring a somewhat different perspective to bear. Peralta Ruiz,
for example, examines recent historiographical developments from the vantage of lo
andino--a more appropriate paradigm than the in vogue at the time dependency
model--and from that of a country where History at a discipline is more strongly rooted.
Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia (1991-) (item 491) has begun and hopefully
will continue to revolutionize the study of history as a discipline in Ecuador. Six of the
first ten issues of Procesos (i.e., nos. 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, and 10) include a critical review
essay, beginning with no. 1, or an historiographic essay, beginning with no. 2 (see item
228). In additions to the studies listed below, see Jorge Caizares, Aportes
historiogrficos de la obra de Eduardo Estrella, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de
historia, 10 (I sem. 1997), 123-129.
201. Alvarez , Silvia G. Una dcada de arqueologa en la ESPOL, Cuadernos del ro,
4/5 (sept. 1993), 22-39.
Delineates and evaluates the activities of the Escuela Tcnica de Arqueologa of the
Escuela Superior Politcnica del Litoral in Guayaquil (founded in 1980) during its first
ten years, especially under the leadership of Jorge G. Marcos. See also items 280 and
324.
Reprinted in item 810.
202. Astudillo Espinosa, Celn. El den Juan Flix Proao, cientfico, historiador y
guerrillero, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 62:133/134 (ene./dic. 1979),
105-154.
A more or less useful source of information on the career and publications of Juan Flix
Proao (1850-1938), a riobambeo, a priest, a Conservative, a combatant in the 18951899 campaigns, the founder and editor of Dios y patria (1923), a self-taught
paleontologist and antiquarian, and a staunch defender of Juan de Velasco. Apparently
most, of not all, of Proaos studies appeared as newspaper articles.
See also Carlos Freile Granizos Juan de Velasco: apuntes sobre una incomprensin,
Revista del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y Antropolgicas, 12:11
(jul. 1993), 19-36, a reevaluation of the Historia del reino de Quito, especially of
Velascos reliance on oral tradition and his thesis that there existed a Kingdom of Quito
prior to the Inca and Spanish conquests. Includes a presentation and discussion of a
heretofore unknown portion of the early-twentieth-century polemic between Jijn y
Caamao, the most important of Ecuadors first field archaeologists, an avid critic of
Velasco, and Proao, nominally one of the countrys first scientific historians, an equally
avid defender of Velasco.
203. Ayala Mora, Enrique. Historia, compromiso y poltica: ensayos sobre
historiografa ecuatoriana, 1 ed. Quito: Planeta, 1989. 114 p.
An anthology of essays, all of which had been previously published, on major works of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ecuadorian historians.
204. Barnadas, Josep Mara. El P. Mario Cical (1718-?) y su obra, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 49:107 (ene./jun. 1966), 93-105.
Cical was the author of a major, late colonial period Descrizione istorio-fisica della
provincia del Quito (1771), for the particulars of the long delayed publication of which
see item 7248.
205. Barrera, Isaac J. Federico Gonzlez Surez; Pedro Fermn Cevallos. Mxico:
Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1968. 71 p.
Adds nothing to the following item (206).
206. Barrera, Isaac J. Historiografa del Ecuador. Mxico: Instituto Panamericano de
Geografa e Historia, 1956. 124 p.
An adulatory survey of the traditional historians Juan de Velasco, Pedro Fermn
Cevallos, Federico Gonzlez Surez, and Jacinto Jijn y Caamao.
207. Bedoya Maruri, Angel Nicanor. El desarrollo del estudio de la arqueologa en el
Ecuador a partir de Gonzlez Surez, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia,
58:126 (jul./dic. 1975), 191-200.
A detailed, highly factual review.
208. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana; and Segundo E. Moreno Ynez. La historia
socio-econmica ecuatoriana del siglo XVIII, Revista de Indias, 49:186 (mayo/ago.
1989), 379-409.
A solid review of the then mostly new literature, almost all of which dated from the
1970s and 1980s, on the demographic, economic, and social history of the eighteenth
century.
Also published as: Balance y tendencias de la historia socio-econmica ecuatoriana,
siglo XVIII. Quito: FLACSO, 1990. 50 p. See also items 270 and 291.
209. Bravo, Julin G. Contribucin del humanista P. Aurelio Espinosa Plit a la
historiografa ecuatoriana, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 66:141/142
(ene./dic. 1983), 132-160.
A somewhat informative but hardly unbiased and far from complete review of Espinosa
Plits major contributions to Ecuadorian letters.
210. Bravo, Julin G. La Iglesia ecuatoriana y las relaciones con el Estado durante el
gobierno de Garca Moreno, 1859-1863, por William M. King, S.I., Revista, Instituto de
Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 2 (1976), 71-78.
A critical review of Kings doctoral dissertation (item 5262).
211. Brubaker, George A. Federico Gonzlez Surez, Historian of Ecuador, Journal
of Inter-American Affairs, 5:2 (Apr. 1963), 235-248.
An objective evaluation of the archbishop-historians historical studies.
Also published in Spanish as: Federico Gonzlez Surez, historiador del Ecuador,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 51:112 (jul./dic. 1968), 258-267.
212. Caillavet, Chantal. Investigaciones en etnohistoria de Ecuador, Revista andina,
2:3 (jul. 1984), 163-167.
Makes several enduring points. 1) Although archival research in the country has
become easier to do than it used to be, it still takes for more time and patience than it
should. 2) Primary sources may not be as complete or extensive as for the more
important colonies of New Spain and the Perus. [Nonetheless, more and more sources
turn up as more and more research is undertaken.] 3) Too many scholars have relied
on Juan de Velascos Historia del Reino de Quito (items 540 and 1532), accepting it as
an accurate, detailed chronicle instead of recognizing it as an expression of protonationalism and therefore insofar as the prehispanic period is concerned, a fable. 4)
Almost all of the ethnohistorical research done, not just as of 1984 but also as of 1997,
has been of the highlands.
213. Carpio Vintimilla, Julio. Por qu no investiga la universidad ecuatoriana?,
Revista del IDIS, 10 (feb. 1982), 107-131.
Examines and explicates the limited research that was being done in national
universities in the 1970s and early 1980s. Attributes lack of research to the emphasis
on preparation of practitioners, the lack of communication between universities and
society, the lack of definition of mission, and the lack of support for research. See also
item 237.
214. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Algunos hechos y dos nombres en la historiografa
azuaya, Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 48
(1983), 81-115.
An appreciation of the oeuvre of Vctor Manuel Albornoz and Jos Mara Vargas.
215. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Panorama del pensamiento histrico en el Ecuador,
del siglo XVI al siglo XIX: (fragmento), Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 19:3/4
(jul./dic. 1963), 431-460.
A precis of item 216.
Reprinted in the authors Temas histricos ecuatorianos (item 217).
216. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Reflexiones sobre la historia del Ecuador. Cuenca:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1957-1960. 2 v.
Reprinted (but not updated) as: Breves apuntes sobre la situacin de la historia
econmica en el Ecuador, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 1:2 (1977), 93-105.
255. Mrquez, Ezequiel. Historia del Ecuador, Gaceta municipal (Quito), 19:79
(oct./dic. 1934), 207-225.
Reports on authors work as a member of the commission formed by an act of
Congress in 1921 to prepare an official, revised, and up-to-date edition--not that one
ever was--of Pedro Fermn Cevalloss Resumen de la historia del Ecuador (item 553).
256. Martnez Borrero, Juan. La investigacin de la cultura popular en el Ecuador,
Artesanas de Amrica, 20/21 (abr. 1986), 21-40.
257. Mayor Lpez, Carlos. La obra lexicogrfica de Antonio de Alcedo (1735-1812).
1991. 295 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York, Albany.
258. Means, Philip Ainsworth. Biblioteca Andina: Essays on the Lives and Works of
the Chroniclers, or, The Writers of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Who
Treated of the Prehispanic History and Culture of the Andean Countries, Transactions
of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 29 (May 1928), 271-525.
Has long since become a classic. Although dated insofar as more recent versions of
the chroniclers are concerned, still very much worth consulting inasmuch as Means was
a perspicacious commentator.
Reprinted as a book under the same title with the same pagination: Detroit: Blaine
Ethridge, 1973.
259. Merino, Luis. The Relation between the Noticias secretas and the Viaje a la
Amrica meridional, The Americas: a Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural
History, 13:2 (Oct. 1956), 111-125.
A critical analysis of Juan and Ulloas Relacin histrica del viaje a la Amrica
Meridional (item 7382) and their Noticias secretas de Amrica (item 7330), the
authorship of both of which Merino attributes entirely to Ulloa and of the extent to which
either work may be said to have been based on personal observation. N.B. Merino
maintains that the 1826 edition of the Noticias secretas is faithful to the manuscript
version used by Barry. See also item 5110.
260. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Cristbal de Gangotena y Jijn y los estudios genealgicos
en el pas, Revista del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y
Antropolgicas, 4/5:6 (dic. 1985), 1-4.
An appreciation of the genealogical work of Gangotena y Jijn (1884-1954).
261. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E. Antropologa ecuatoriana: pasado y presente. Quito:
Edit. Ediguas, 1992. 136 p.
A solid account of the emergence of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnohistory as
disciplines, their historical antecedents, and the state of anthropological,
archaeological, and ethnohistorical research in Ecuador as of the early 1990s.
A preliminary version appeared as: Pasado y presente de la antropologa ecuatoriana:
century.
267. Ospina, Pablo. Imaginarios nacionalistas: historia y significados nacionales en
Ecuador, siglos XIX y XX, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 9 (II sem. 1996),
111-124.
A critical review of the role of history, especially of officially sponsored histories, in the
formation of nationalism in Ecuador. Emphasizes the boundary dispute issue and
views of indigenous groups.
268. Pachano, Simn. Ciencias sociales y polticas en el Ecuador, Ciencias sociales
y polticas en Amrica Latina (Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones
Sociales, 1987), p. 48-64.
An exceptionally insightful, highly suggestive outline of political, socioeconomic, and
Social Scientific trends and developments and relationships between politics and
intellectuals, the state and the Social Sciences in Ecuador from the advent of the
Liberals through the late-twentieth century.
269. Pacheco Prado, Lucas. El desarrollo de la investigacin social en el Ecuador:
apuntes para su estudio, Revista del IDIS, 10 (feb. 1982), 51-74.
A superficial review of the emergence of social scientific research in the twentieth
century, beginning with the publication of Espinosa Tamayos Psicologa y sociologa
del pueblo ecuatoriano in 1916 (item 8324).
270. Paz y Mio Cepeda, Juan J. La historiografa econmica del Ecuador sobre el s.
XIX y XX en los ltimos 25 aos, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 5 (II sem.
1993/I sem. 1994), 75-115.
An insightful analysis of late-twentieth century studies of the economic history of the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
271. Pealoza Bretel, Marco Antonio. La investigacin historiogrfica sobre la
hacienda serrana ecuatoriana del s. XIX, Procesos, 7 (I sem. 1995), 35-58.
A solid review of the relatively limited work that had been done as of the mid 1990s on
the history of rural estates in the highlands in the 1800s. Thematically and
chronologically specific. Includes a bibliography.
272. Peralta Ruiz, Vctor. La historia en el Ecuador (1980-1990), Revista andina, 9:1
(jul. 1991), 261-274.
A favorable yet nonetheless critical analysis of the advances of the 1980s in terms of
the ideological debates prevalent in Ecuadorian (but not necessarily Ecuadorianist)
historiography during the decade in question. The author is a Peruvian and an
Andeanist.
273. Perspectivas de la investigacin histrica ecuatoriana: siglos XIX y XX, Cultura,
2:6 (ene./abr. 1980), 277-285.
The conclusions of the 1980 Simposio sobre el Ecuador en 1830.
274. Ponce Ribadeneira, Alfredo. Algunas reflexiones sobre la obra Noticias
281. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Cuenca y los historiadores, Revista del Centro de
Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 48 (1983), 119-134.
282. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Tres artculos del P. Juan de Velasco, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 54:117 (ene./jun. 1971), 164-170.
An unabashedly favorable appreciation of Father Velasco. An example of the
traditional, still all too prevalent great man approach to the past.
284. Schmit, Marilee. Ethnicity, Cultural Continuity, and Socioeconomic Processes:
Recent Works in Ecuadorian Ethnology and Ethnography, Latin American Research
Review, 23:3 (1988), 238-247.
Reviews Luzuriaga and Zuvekass Income Distribution and Poverty (item 129), Political
Anthropology of Ecuador (item 7956), Whittens Sicuanga Runa (item 8178), and
Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity (item 7939).
285. Schroder, Barbara. Indians in the Halls of Academe: Rural Andean Peoples
Confront Social Science, Peasant Studies, 18:2 (Winter 1991), 97-116.
Reviews scholarship on the Levantamiento Nacional Indgena of 1990.
286. Smith, Peter H. The Image of a Dictator: Gabriel Garca Moreno, Hispanic
American Historical Review, 45:1 (Feb. 1965), 1-24.
A critical review of pro and con literature by Ecuadorian and other Latin American
scholars.
287. Szszdi, Adam. The Economic History of the Diocese of Quito, 1616-1787,
Latin American Research Review, 21:2 (1986), 266-275.
Reviews Claytons Los astilleros de Guayaquil colonial (item 6744), Cushners Farm
and Factory (item 1370), Freile Granizos transcription of the Actas del Cabildo colonial
de Guayaquil (item 6789), and the Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas (item 509),
and comments on other recent work on the economic history of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Marred by personalism unlike the authors earlier survey (item
288).
288. Szszdi, Adam. The Historiography of the Republic of Ecuador, Hispanic
American Historical Review, 44:4 (Nov. 1964), 503-550.
A comprehensive, more or less objective survey of traditional Ecuadorian
historiography.
Also published in Spanish as: La historiografa de la Repblica del Ecuador, Cultura,
8:22 (mayo/ago. 1985), 129-172.
289. Los Talleres de Investigacin Social: una experiencia referente a la historia
social, Felicia Astudillo [et al.], Revista del IDIS, 10 (feb. 1982), 135-170.
Outlines the research plan for Estructura social y lucha de clases en la regin centrosur del Ecuador (1820-1861) under the direction of Lucas A. Achig S.
290. Tern, Francisco. Los gegrafos de la patria, Estudios de historia y geografa
archaeology of Ecuador.
297. Zapater, Irving Ivn. La revolucin juliana a travs del ojo crtico de Oscar Efrn
Reyes: (apuntes preliminares para una crtica de Los ltimos siete aos, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 71:151/152 (ene./dic. 1988), 291-302.
A critical review of item 2572.
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
AYUDAS DE INVESTIGACION
This section consists primarily of guides to and studies of archives, libraries, museums,
and private collections in Ecuador and repositories located elsewhere in the world that
have materials on Ecuador.
By the 1980s, archival research in Ecuador had become somewhat more feasible and
practical than it was previously. As of the late twentieth century, historical archives
were usually open to the public, maintained more or less regular albeit limited hours,
and had helpful, sometimes even knowledgeable, directors and staff. Furthermore,
guides had been published to many of the repositories, and in some cases, also
inventories, at least of some of fondos.
Some of the more important ecclesiastical archives, most notably of Cuenca, had finally
opened their doors to qualified researchers, and guides to their holdings had began to
appear too (e.g., items 303 and 305). Full time personnel were and probably still are
not always assigned to church repositories, however.
When it comes to administrative archives, little had changed. Some like the Archivo y
Biblioteca de la Funcin Legislativa, were and presumably still are usually open and
easy enough to use. Some undoubtedly remain closed. A few like the Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores had established and organized historical archives. Access to the
majority of administrative archives probably remains a question of personal contacts
and contingent upon the good will of whoever is in charge of the repository.
Another important development of the late-twentieth century was the acquisition of
major private collections, such as those of Carlos Manuel Larrea and Jacinto Jijn y
Caamao, by the Banco Central del Ecuador, and the preparation of guides thereto
(see, for example, items 308 and 309). Insofar as the Archivos Histricos of the Banco
Central are concerned, however, their status had become problematic. Established
together with Centros de Investigacin y Cultura in every provincial branch of the bank
as well as in the capital in the 1970s and 1980s --consolidating many local repositories,
especially notarial archives--the majority of the Archivos Histricos and Centros de
Investigacin y Cultura were closed in the 1990s. It is not known if this will turn out to
be temporary, or whether their manuscript and library holdings will be transferred to the
Centros de Investigacin y Cultura of Quito, Guayaquil, and Cuenca.
Notwithstanding the badly needed and therefore more than welcome specialized guides
that appeared in the 1980s and 1990s, a detailed as well as comprehensive vade
298. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Algo sobre bibliografa azuaya, Revista, Casa de la
Cultura, Ncleo del Azuay, 3:4 (ago. 1951), 201-232.
Primarily a guide to manuscript sources of the colonial, independence, and early
national periods, including some materials in private hands.
299. Alcina Franch, Jos; and Remedios de la Pea. Textos para la etnohistoria de
Esmeraldas. Madrid: Departamento de Antropologa y Etnologa de Amrica,
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1974. 99 leaves.
300. Alvarez Mantilla, Mauro; and Irving Ivn Zapater. Peridicos ecuatorianos en la
Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia, Cultura, 7:19 (mayo/ago. 1984), 309-327.
301. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Cedulario del Monasterio de Conceptas de Ntra. Sra. de
las Nieves de la ciudad de Loja, Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica
Ecuatoriana, 10 (1990), 179-191.
Abstracts in chronological order the volume in the Archives of the Conceptas of Loja
that brings together albeit in disparate order the documents relating to the crown grant
of 800 ducats per year for the sustenance of the nuns in their poverty. The earliest
manuscript apparently dates from 1616, and the latest from 1794.
302. Aparicio, Mnica; and Alfonso Ortiz Crespo. Diagnstico de museos del Ecuador.
Quito: Asociacin Ecuatoriana de Museos, 1982. 163, 33, 37 p.
303. Archivo de la Curia Arquidiocesana de Cuenca. Catlogo del Archivo de la Curia
Arquidiocesana de Cuenca, volumen preparado por el Centro de Investigacin y
Cultura con la participacin de Martha Maldonado Samaniego y de Lucia Villavicencio
de Burbano. Cuenca: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura,
1989-<1990>. <2> vol.
The ACA/C is an exceptionally important repository. It also includes materials,
especially from the colonial, independence, and early national periods, for what are now
the Dioceses of Azogues and Loja and the Archdioceses of Guayaquil inasmuch as not
all appropriate documents were transferred from Cuenca to Guayaquil upon the
establishment of the Diocese of Guayaquil in 1838. The same holds true for the
Archivo del Cabildo Eclesistico de Cuenca (see item 305). Hopefully the catalog of
the ACA/C will some day be continued.
Contents: vol. 1, Diezmos y economa; vol. 2, Juicios, inventarios, testamentos.
304. Archivo de Pedro Robles Chambers, Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga, 1:1
(mar. 1983), 12-36.
Publishes Robles y Chamberss fichero. See items 403 and 344 (in that order) for
parts two and three.
305. Archivo del Cabildo Eclesistico de Cuenca. Catlogo del Archivo del Cabildo
Eclesistico de Cuenca, volumen preparado por el Centro de Investigacin y Cultura
del Banco Central del Ecuador, Sucursal en Cuenca, con la colaboracin del Dr. Juan
Chacn Z. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1986. xvii, 324 p.
306. Archivo Histrico del Banco Central del Ecuador. Estructura agraria de la sierra
centro-norte, 1830-1930, Carlos Marchn Romero, Bruno Andrade Andrade, Eduardo
Guevara Valencia. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1984-1986. 4 v.
Vols. 1-3 consist of indexes of records of rural properties in the Provinces of Carchi,
Imbabura, Pichincha, Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, and Chimborazo. Organized estate by
estate and chronologically. Vol. 4 is subtitled Conformacin orgnica de las familias
terratenientes and includes bibliographical references and indexes for the set. A fifth
vol., tentatively entitled Progreso y tradicin: un siglo de desarrollo agropecuario y
econmico de la sierra norcentral (1820-1933) in which Marchn is supposed to
interpret the sources and offer a detailed study of the agrarian history of the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, has apparently been ready since 1990, but as of the late
1990s, had not been published. Almost all of the original records, formerly scattered in
various notaries and administrative archives, are apparently now housed in one or more
branches of the Archivo Histrico del Banco Central.
307. Archivo Histrico del Banco Central del Ecuador. Fondo Banco Central, volumen
preparado por Mauro Alvarez Mantilla. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de
Investigacin y Cultura, 1985-1986. 2 v. (xxiii, 319, xi, 402 p.) (Catlogos del Archivo
Histrico; 9-10)
Vol. 2 prepared by Mauro Alvarez Mantilla and Germn Solano de la Sala Veintemilla.
Contents: vol. 1, Circulares postales del Departamento de Cambios, 1950-1965; vol. 2,
Circulares postales del Departamento de Cambios, 1966-1984.
308. Archivo Histrico del Banco Central del Ecuador. Fondo Jijn y Caamao,
preparado por Milton Luna Tamayo y Patricio Ordez Chiriboga, 1 ed. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1983-1987. 3 v. (ix, 308, x, 302, xi, 414 p.) (Catlogos del
Archivo Histrico; 2, 5, 7)
Vol. 3 prepared by Milton Luna Tamayo, Patricio Ordez Chiriboga, and Ftima Ponce
Estupin. The former collection of Jacinto Jijn y Caamao is incredibly rich. It
consists of at least twenty-one distinct series. These three volumes describe only the
first series, Documentos miscelneos, consisting of approximately 13,000
manuscripts, from 1543 through 1914. Well indexed. See also item 437.
309. Archivo Histrico del Banco Central del Ecuador. Fondo Neptal Bonifaz,
preparado por Luca Surez Pasquel, 1 ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 19831984. 2 v. (315, 323 p.) (Catlogos del Archivo Histrico; 1, 4)
Catalogs the private papers of one of the more important members of the traditional
elite and one of the founders of the Banco Central. Vol. 2 includes a guide to the
records--dating from as early as 1606--of Bonifazs estate, the Hacienda Guachal.
Indexed.
310. Archivo Histrico del Banco Central del Ecuador. Fondo Notaras de Ambato,
preparado por Mara Teresa Larrea, 1 ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 19841987. 2 v. (x, 310, 383 p.) (Catlogos del Archivo Histrico; 3, 6)
The Fondo Notaras de Ambato consists of registers (protocolos) from 1749-1900 and
litigation (juicios) from 1604-1939. Indexed.
310a. Archivo Histrico del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Catlogos del Archivo
Histrico del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1996. 3 v.
This important repository contains materials from the colonial and independence
periods (from 1692-1821) as well as from the 1822 onward.
311. Archivo Nacional de Historia (Quito, Ecuador). Gua del Archivo Nacional de
Historia. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1981. 219 p.
312. Archivo Nacional de Historia (Quito, Ecuador). Gua de los fondos documentales
del Archivo Nacional del Ecuador. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Archivos, 1994. 2 v.
(474, 506 p.)
As of July 1997, the most up-to-date as well as complete check list of the holdings of
the ANH/Q. Other useful guides are items 311, 323, 347.
313. Archivo Secreto Vaticano, investigacin, seleccin y notas, Francisco Miranada
Ribadeneira. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1989. 3 v. (Catlogos del Archivo
Histrico; 12-14)
Covers the years 1823-1903.
314. Arroyo del Ro, Carlos Alberto. El Instituto Cultural Ecuatoriano: su fundacin e
inauguracin. Quito: Tall. Grf. del Ministerio de Educacin, 1943. 42 p.
315. Ayala Mora, Enrique. Gua de la documentacin diplomtica britnica sobre
Ecuador: elaborada a base de las referencias existentes en los archivos del Foreign
Office, Public Record Office de Londres. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias
Sociales, Sede Quito, 1986. 85 p.
316. Barrera, Isaac J. El nmero 100 del Boletn de la Academia de Historia, Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 44:100 (jul./dic. 1962), 131-146.
An overview of the first 53 years of the Academy and its labors and of the contributions
of its members.
See also Jos Mara Vargass Fundacin de la Sociedad de Estudios Histricos
Americanos, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 67:143/144 (ene.-dic. 1984),
6-17.
317. Barrera, Isaac J.; and Carlos Manuel Larrea. El Archivo Luis Felipe Borja Prez,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 35:86 (jul./dic. 1955), 249-255; 37:89
(ene./jun. 1957), 106-108; 38:92 (jul./dic. 1958), 229-234.
Lists manuscripts, including but not limited to family papers, donated by Sofia Borja del
Alczar to the Academia Nacional de Historia. The documents span the years 16421896.
318. Barrera B., Jaime. Obras y documentos antiguos existentes en la Bibliotoeca de
la Universidad Central, Anales de la Universidad Central del Ecuador, 57:297 (jul./sept.
1936), 471-526.
319. Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Plit. Cincuentenario de la Biblioteca y
Museo Ecuatorianos Aurelio Espinosa Plit, 1929-1979. Quito: La Biblioteca, 1980.
140 p.
320. Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador. Exposicin del periodismo ecuatoriano:
contribucin de la Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador. Quito: Tall. Grf. del Ministerio de
Educacin, 1941. 119 p.
Sntesis de la Hemeroteca de la Biblioteca Nacional.
321. Las Bibliotecas en Cuenca, Antonio Lloret Bastidas [et al.], Tres de noviembre,
32:147 (ene./abr. 1987), 25-34, 44-125.
322. Bognoli, Jos Clemente. La Biblioteca Municipal: antecedentes histricos y su
legislacin municipal moderna. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1965. 60 p.
323. Bonnett Velez, Diana. La Seccin Indgenas del Archivo Histrico de Quito,
siglos XVI-XVIII: documentos, 1 ed. Quito: FLACSO: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992. 100
p.
A guide to materials in the Indgenas section of the Archivo Nacional de Historia.
323a. Botasso, Juan. Archivo Histrico de las Misiones Salesianas: catlogo. Quito:
Procura de las Misiones Salesianas, 1979. 27 p.
324. Buys, Josef E.; and Jorge G. Marcos. Centro de Estudios Arqueolgicos y
Antropolgicos del Litoral, Guayaquil, Ecuador. Guayaquil: Proyecto Regional de
Patrimonio Cultural y Desarrollo PNUD/UNESCO, 1985. 19 p.
325. Caillavet, Chantal. Les archives quatoriennes, Cahiers du monde hispanique
et luso-brsilien (Caravelle), 34 (1980), 171-175.
An introduction to public archives, especially historical, and private collections of Quito.
326. Caillavet, Chantal. Fuentes para la historia andina: los archivos privados
indgenas de la zona de Saraguro, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 5:5 (1985),
87-90.
Reports the results of a survey of private papers held by indigenous families of
Saraguro. The survey was conducted by members of the communities of Lagunas,
San Lucas, and Tenta. The two most important points that Caillavet makes are: 1)
archivos privados familiares exist in the lower as well as in the upper sectors; and 2)
that documentacin indgena has been virtually ignored in Ecuador.
327. Caillavet, Chantal. Fuentes y problemtica de la historia colonial de Loja y su
provincia, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr.1983), 355-370.
A cogent introduction to archival sources in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, and Spain for the
reconstruction of the history of Loja and its province.
328. Carrin, Fernando. Centros de investigacin y bibliotecas: directorio ecuatoriano,
1 ed. Quito: CIUDAD-CONUEP, 1988. 306 p.
A comprehensive directory of research centers and libraries throughout the country.
329. Cartas de cabildos hispanoamericanos: Audiencia de Quito (siglos XVI-XIX),
edicin e introduccin Javier Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Montserrat Fernndez
Martnez, Agueda Rivera Garrido. Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos,
1991. xx, 506 p.
A calendar of letters and accompanying documents from town councils of Spanish
towns and Indians pueblos in the Audiencia de Quito fondo of the Archivo General de
Indias (Seville). Well indexed.
330. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Indice general de los papeles de Pedro Franco Dvila:
(volmenes I y II), Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 9:21/22 (1952), 6276.
A calendar of transcriptions of papers of Franco Dvila deposited by Castillo in the
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas de Guayaquil, the archives and library of which
are now in the Archivo Histrico del Guayas. N.B. In some instances Castillos
transcriptions may be the only extant versions inasmuch as some of the corresponding
originals or coeval copies seen by him in Spain were destroyed during the Civil War.
Far more of the manuscripts in question survived, however, than used to be thought:
see Calatayuds biography of Franco Dvila (item 3086).
331. Clayton, Lawrence A. Documentos en el Archivo General de Indias para el
estudio de la historia martima y comercial de Guayaquil en el siglo XVII, Revista del
Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 3:6 (dic. 1974), 64-82.
331a. Corts Alonso, Vicenta. Catlogo de mapas de Colombia. Madrid: Ediciones
Cultura Hispnica, 1967. 337 p.
A guide to the cartographic holdings of the Archivo Histrico Nacional in Bogot. The
Archivo Histrico Nacional is also known as the Archivo General de la Nacin and the
Archivo Nacional, apropos of a not insignificant point. Repositories are sometimes
referred to by variant names.
332. Chacn Zhapn, Juan. El Archivo Histrico Municipal, Huellas (Cuenca), 5
353. Gua del Fondo Mestizos del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Quitumbe, 9 (jun.
1995), 123-137.
354. Gua para investigadores del Ecuador, Instituto Geogrfico Militar. Quito: Instituto
Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1982. 23, 117 p.
A guide to the activities, holdings, and publications of the Instituto Geogrfico Militar.
355. Guilln, Alejandro. El Centro de Poblacin: una experiencia en el Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales de la Universidad de Cuenca, Revista del IDIS, 19 (nov.
1988), 9-17.
Outlines the history and activities of the Centro de Poblacin established in 1983.
356. Hamerly, Michael T. Archives of Cuenca, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of
Inter-American Cultural History, 37:3 (Jan. 1981), 379-392.
N.B. Revises and updates authors chapter on repositories in Cuenca in item 412.
357. Hamerly, Michael T. Archives of Guayaquil: Colonial and Nineteenth-Century
Institutions and Administrative Archives, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of InterAmerican Cultural History, 38:3 (Jan. 1982), 379-391.
358. Hamerly, Michael T. Archives of Guayaquil: Ecclesiastical Entities and Archives,
The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, 38:4 (Apr. 1982),
515-523.
359. Hamerly, Michael T. Archives of Guayaquil: Historical Archives and Private
Collections, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, 39:1
(July 1982), 107-116.
Items 357-359 are comprehensive albeit inevitably dated surveys of archives of and
private collections in the port city.
360. Hamerly, Michael T. Informes ministeriales y registros oficiales del siglo XIX
como fuentes cuantitativas, Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 6:11 (jun. 1977),
27-61.
More comprehensive than the necessarily abridged English version (item 361).
361. Hamerly, Michael T. Quantifying the Nineteenth Century: The Ministry Reports
and Gazettes of Ecuador as Quantitative Sources, Latin American Research Review,
13:2 (1978), 138-156.
For a more comprehensive list of official newspapers see: Cecilia Ortiz, La prensa
oficial (1830-1940), Memoria, MARKA, ao 1, no. 1 (nov. 1990), 257-262.
362. Hamerly, Michael T. Registros parroquiales e inventarios de iglesias del litoral,
Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 6:12 (dic. 1977), 25-69.
Surveys parishes registers and coeval inventories of parishes churches in what are now
the Archdiocese of Guayaquil and the Dioceses of Manab, Los Ros, and El Oro.
363. Heredia Herrera, Antonia. Organizacin y descripcin de los fondos de la
Audiencia de Quito del Archivo General de Indias, Historiografa y bibliografa
385a. Larrea, Gregorio Csar de. Fichero histrico. Quito: S.A.G., 1991. 180 p.
(Coleccin Amigos de la Genealoga; 44)
Apparently a guide to sources from the colonial period that are to be found in private
collections.
386. Lista de legajos manuscritos del Museo de Historia de la Ciudad de Quito,
Museo Histrico, 1:1 (mayo 1949), 31-36.
387. Lista parcial de documentos que sobre el Ecuador se hallan en el Archivo
Nacional de Bogot, Museo Histrico, 2:5 (mayo 1950), 193-208; 3:9 (mayo 1951),
130-157.
Lists primary sources on the 10 de agosto.
388. Lovato, Mara Fernanda. Gua de centros de investigacin, Quitumbe, 7 (1990),
151-157.
A useful directory of research centers, archives, and libraries in Quito. Lists their
addresses, telephone numbers, and hours.
389. Lloret Bastidas, Antonio. Museos y archivos de Cuenca, Tres de Noviembre,
31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 9-13.
390. Matamoros Jara, Carlos. Peridicos publicados en Guayaquil, existentes en la
Biblioteca Municipal: primera parte, 1822-1900, Revista municipal (Guayaquil), 8:15/17
(mar./mayo 1933), 23-24; 8:18 (jun. 1933), 2, 96.
391. Montalvo, Antonio. Registro bibliogrfico de la revista Amrica: nmeros 1-100,
1925-1950, Amrica (Quito), 26:101 (ene./jun. 1951), 7-82.
392. Montoto, Santiago. El proceso contra Jorge Juan y Antonio de Ulloa en Quito,
1737-1739, Anuario de estudios americanos, 5 (1948), 747-780.
Regarding the research potential of said legajo in the Archivo General de Indias.
393. Mora Castro, Diego. Archivo Nacional de Historia: Seccin del Azuay, Tres de
Noviembre, 31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 98-104.
394. Mora Castro, Diego. Fondos documentales del Archivo Nacional de Historia,
Seccin del Azuay. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1984.
20 p.
395. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E. La Coleccin documental Bernardo Mendel y su
importancia en la historiografa ecuatoriana, Suplemento de Anuario de estudios
americanos, 46:1 (1989), 35-50.
Describes the Mendel Collection in the Lilly Library (University of Indiana). This
collection includes 23 legajos that used to be in the Archdiocesan Archives of Quito.
Also published in: Memoria, MARKA, ao 2, no. 2 (nov. 1993), 151-168.
396. Norris, Robert E. La coleccin de peridicos guayaquileos en la Biblioteca
Nacional de Quito, Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1:2 (dic. 1972), 17-24.
397. Oleas Montalvo, Julio; and Bruno Andrade Andrade. Indices de debates
econmicos del parlamento ecuatoriano, 1830-1950. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1985. xii, 479 p. (Fuentes para la historia
econmica del Ecuador. Serie indices de documentacin; 1)
398. Ortiz Bilbao, Luis Alfonso. Indice general a la Coleccin Vacas Galindo,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 48:106 (jul./dic. 1965), 241-258; 49:107
(ene./jun. 1966), 49-92; 50:109 (ene./jun. 1967), 81-116; 50:110 (jul./dic. 1967), 220252; 51:111 (ene./jun. 1968), 64-85; 51:112 (jul./dic. 1968), 209-239; 52:113 (ene./jun.
1969), 114-128; 52:114 (jul./dic. 1969), 256-277; 53:115 (ene./jun. 1970), 87-112;
53:116 (jul./dic. 1970), 367-395; 54:117 (ene./jun. 1971), 174-196; 55:119 (ene./jun.
1972), 135-143; 55:120 (jul./dic. 1972), 294-304; 56:121 (ene./jun. 1973), 177-192;
57:123 (ene./jun. 1974), 201-212; 58:126 (jul./dic. 1975), 150-165.
The Vacas Galindo Collection, housed in the Dominican Convent in Quito, consists of
early twentieth century transcriptions--mostly typewritten, but not always reliable--of
Archivo General de Indias materials. See also item 433.
399. Pez Tern, Juan Fernando. Documentos relativos a la historia del Ecuador que
se encuentran en la Biblioteca del Congreso de la Argentina, Museo Histrico, 30
(mar. 1958), 249-256.
400. Pattee, Richard. Libraries and Archives for Historical Research in Ecuador,
Hispanic American Historical Review, 17:2 (May 1937), 231-237.
Although much out-of-date as to the location and status of libraries and archives, still
useful as a source of information as to their whereabouts, organization, staffing, and
relative usefulness as of the mid 1930s. Interestingly enough, the best library for
historical research at that time was the Biblioteca de Autores Nacionales Carlos A.
Rolando, according to Pattee. Also published in Spanish as: Bibliotecas y archivos de
investigacin en el Ecuador, Libros i bibliotecas, 1 (1939), 29-32.
401. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. Gua para la historia de la cartografa ecuatoriana.
Quito: Ministerio del Tesoro, 1948. 56 p.
402. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. Mapas coloniales del Ecuador, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 23:62 (jul./dic. 1943), 165-187.
403. Pedro Robles Chambers fichero: segunda parte, Coleccin Amigos de la
Genealoga, 21 (jun. 1986), 9-24.
See items 304 and 344 for parts one and two.
403a. Peru. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Gua del Archivo Histrico de
Lmites. Lima: Direccin de Proyectos, Sub-Proyecto de Archivo de Lmites y General,
1994. 47 p.
Perus Archivo Histrico de Lmites should be consulted by anyone endeavoring to add
new data or fresh perspective to the boundary dispute between Ecuador and Peru.
404. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Los escribanos en la colonia, Revista de la Universidad
de Guayaquil, 53/54 (jul./dic. 1983), 175-182.
Although somewhat out-of-date, still useful. N.B. Estrada Ycazas and Hamerlys
chapters on repositories in Guayaquil and Cuenca were superseded by items 356-359.
Partial contents: Jaime E. Rodrguez O., Introduction (p. 136-137); Adam Szszdi,
Comments on the Historiography of Ecuadors Pre-Independence Period (p. 138-145);
Jaime E. Rodrguez O., Research in the National Period (p. 146-150); Linda A.
Rodrguez, The Libraries and Archives of Quito (p. 151-163); Juan Freile Granizo,
The Archivo Nacional de Historia (p. 164-169); Joedd Price, The Archivo Nacional de
Relaciones Exteriores del Ecuador and the Biblioteca General del Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores (p. 170-171); Luis A. Rodrguez S., The Military Archives of
Ecuador (p. 172-174); Michael T. Hamerly, The Archives and Libraries of Cuenca (p.
175-181); Julio Estrada Ycaza, The Archives and Libraries of Guayaquil (p. 182-196);
Rosemary D.F. Bromley, The Provincial Archives and Libraries of Ecuador (p. 197204).
For a partial update on the status of repositories in the capital see Federica Morellis
Doing Archival Research in Quito: A Guide to Archives and Libraries, Itinerario, 18:2
(1994), 143-147.
413. Riao, Jos Camilo. Inventario del Archivo del historiador Jos Manuel
Restrepo, Archivos (Bogot), 1:1 (ene./jun. 1967), 179-199.
It will be recalled that Restrepo (1781-1863) took advantage of his ministerial position to
obtain originals and copies of official sources in bulk from throughout what are now
Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador in order to prepare his monumental
Historia de la revolucin de la Repblica de Colombia (item 1833). Fortunately his
descendants have maintained and allow access to his collection.
414. Rodrguez O., Jaime. E. New Research Opportunities in Ecuador, Latin
American Research Review, 8:2 (1973), 95-100.
Superseded by Rodrguezs introduction to the section on Ecuador in item 412.
414a. Roggiero, Roberto. Ecuador, in: Documentos de la primera Reunin
Iberoamericana para la Recuperacin y Conservacin de Archivos y Documentacin de
los Trabajadores y Movimientos Sociales (Buenos Aires, 13/15 abril 1992), edicin
preparada por Aurelio Martn Njera y Agustn Garrigs Fernndez (Madrid: Edit. Pablo
Iglesias, 1992), p. 233-241.
415. Rolando, Carlos A. Anales de la Universidad de Quito, Libros i bibliotecas, 1:1
(mar. 1939), 2-5; 1:2 (jun. 1939), 1-3; 1:4 (dic. 1939), 2-6.
416. Rolando, Carlos A. Biblioteca del Archivo del Poder Legislativo, Libros i
bibliotecas, 1:2 (jun. 1939), 46-48.
Included here for the same of completeness and to demonstrate that the importance of
this major repository has long been known. Superseded by Cecilia Durn C.s El
Archivo-Biblioteca de la Funcin Legislativa: visin general del fondo, Memoria,
MARKA, ao 1, no. 1 (nov. 1990), 189-256.
417. Rolando, Carlos A. El Centro de Investigaciones Histricas de Guayaquil: breve
crnica de 20 aos de existencia (1930-1950), Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
REVISTAS
This section lists every historical and related journal for which I was able to find or to
establish an acceptable bibliographic description (that is to say, a description that
includes enumeration, place of publication, and date of initial, and also, when known, of
terminal publication. The number of issues or volumes, again when know, in the case
of defunct titles is also specified.) N.B. Journals that are primarily bibliographic or
statistical in coverage are entered under Bibliografas or Estadstica for the most
part.
I have not indicated frequency of publication except in a few instances. This is because
the majority of Ecuadorian periodicals, especially scholarly journals, appear
sporadically, even those that claim to be issued regularly. Indicative of this are the
total numbers of issues (not titles) of Ecuadorian periodicals registered by Edgar
Freire Rubio in vol. 3 of his Desde el mostrador del librero (item 80): 254 for 1992; 267
for 1993; 258 for 1994; and 242 for 1995.
As of the late 1990s, bibliographic control over Ecuadorian serials remained to be
achieved. The histories of some periodicals, annuals, and irregular serials were
known, but the particulars of far too many titles had, and probably still have, yet to be
established. This is true whether one consults North American, European, or
Ecuadorian records. Neither the Union List of Serials in Libraries of the United States
and Canada, 3rd ed. (New York: H.W. Wilson, 1965) and its several supplements, nor
the ongoing Ulrichs International Periodicals Directory (New York: Bowker, 1965-)
provide comprehensive coverage of Ecuadorian serials. In part this is because North
American and European libraries have not made a concerted effort to collect and to
describe Ecuadorian periodicals, annuals, and irregular serials.
Insofar as Ecuador is concerned, this section supersedes my Historical and Related
Journals of Spanish South America: a Current and Retrospective Checklist, Handbook
of Latin American Studies, 36 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1974), 194-200.
Only one North American librarian other than myself had attempted to establish control
over Ecuadorian serials, the late Rosa Quintero Mesa, in vol. 8 of her indispensable
Latin American Serial Documents (item 138).
When it comes to serials, Ecuadorian bibliographies suffer from the same defect as
their North American and European counterparts, incomplete coverage. At least one
Ecuadorian scholar, however, recognized the need for a comprehensive bibliography of
caso (p. 131-150); Clara Len Vinueza, Juegos infantiles de tradicin oral en el rea
urbana de Otavalo (p. 151-172); A. Jorge Arellano, Asentamientos arqueolgicos
tardos del perodo de integracin en la Cuenca del Ro Chumbo, Ecuador (p. 173204).
442. Amrica. Ao 1, no. 1 (1925)-. Quito: Grupo Amrica, 1925-.
Here within cited as: Amrica (Quito). Apparently defunct. For a partial guide to
Amricas contents see item 391.
443. Amrica libre, director, Carlos Manuel Noboa. Guayaquil: Prensa Ecuatoriana,
1920-1934. 3 v. (384, lxi p.; 500 p.; 610 p.)
An exceptionally important irregular. Vol. 1 commemorated the 9 de octubre with a
number of interesting articles on the port city as it had been in 1820 and as it had
become by 1920. Vol. 2 and 3, which appeared in 1922 and 1934, respectively, are
crammed with considerable data on the country at large in the 1920s and early 1930s.
All three folio size vols., moreover, are profusely illustrated.
444. Anales de la Universidad Central del Ecuador. T. 1, no. 1 (mar. 1883)-. Quito:
Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1883-.
The titles varies. Originally entitled: Anales de la Universidad de Quito.
Cumulative indexes exist for 1883-1934 and 1935-1964: Indice general de los Anales
de la Universidad Central (Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1935); and Ruth Matilde
Altamirano Silva, Indice analtico de los Anales de la Universidad Central, 1935-1964
(Medelln: Escuela Interamericana de Bibliotecologa, 1965).
445. Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca. T. 1, no. 1 (oct. 1940)-. Cuenca:
Universidad de Cuenca, 1940-.
A subject index exists for 1940-1982: Michurn Velez Valarezo, Anales de la
Universidad de Cuenca: indice anltico. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, Biblioteca
General Juan Bautista Vzquez, 1982. 129 p.
Continues: Revista de la Universidad de Cuenca (item 506).
446. Anales del Archivo Nacional de Historia y Museo Unico. Epoca 2, t. 1 (1939).
Quito: Tall. Grf. del Ministerio de Educacin, 1939. 1 v. (320 p.)
Continued: Revista del Archivo de la Biblioteca Nacional de Quito (item 508).
447. Antropologa: cuadernos de investigacin. No. 1 (jun. 1983)-. Quito: Pontificia
Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Departamento de Antropologa, Centro de
Investigacin, Documentacin y Difusin de Antropologa (CIDDA), 1983-.
448. Antropologa ecuatoriana. No. 1 (1978)-. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
Seccin Acadmica de Antropologa y Arqueologa, 1978-.
449. Anuario de la Fundacin Los Andes de Estudios Sociales. Ao 1, no. 1 (jul.
1990)-. Quito: Fundacin Los Andes de Estudios Sociales, 1990-.
450. Anuario histrico jurdico ecuatoriano (Guayaquil). 1 (1970)-. Guayaquil:
472. Ecuador debate. 1 (dic. de 1982)-. Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular,
1983-.
Each issue is devoted to a current topic. Published three times per year.
473. Estudios y datos. Ao 1, vol. 1, no. 1 (jul. 1979)-. Quito: Centro de Estudios y
Datos, 1979-.
A useful source of information on economic conditions, politics and government.
Published irregularly: jul. 1979-sept. 1980; monthly: mayo 1981-.
474. Hombre y ambiente. Vol. 1, no. 1 (ene./mar. 1987)-. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1987-.
475. Humanismo. No. 1 (jul./sept.1983)-. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana de Estudios
Sociales, 1983-.
476. Humanitas: boletn ecuatoriano de antropologa. 1:1 (1958)-7:1 (1969-1970).
Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, Instituto de Antropologa, 1958-[1972?]. 11
nos. in 7 v.
477. Iglesias, pueblos y cultura. Ao 1, no. 1 (1987)-. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1987-. Quarterly.
478. Libroteca: revista bibliogrfica mensual. No. 1 (jun. 1991)-. Quito: Abrapalabra
Editores, 1991-.
Probably defunct. As of July 1997, the latest issue appeared to have been: n 13 (dic.
1993 y ene./feb. 1994).
Based primarily on Freires monthly column (see items 80-81).
479. Llacta. [Ao 1, vol. 1] (1956)-. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y
Geografa, 1956-.
Confusingly as well as inconsistently numbered. Usually monographic in nature and
therefore more of a series than a serial. Monographic issues are described as
separates in this bibliography.
480. Memoria: revista del Instituto de Historia y Antropologa Andina. Ao. 1, no. 1(nov. 1990)-. Quito: MARKA, Instituto de Historia y Antropologa Andina, 1990-.
Here within cited as Memoria, MARKA. As of 1997, almost a true annual, five issues
having appeared, and one of the most important venues for the diffusion of
professionally done, original studies in Ecuadorian studies, especially in Anthropology,
Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and History.
481. Memorias de la Academia Ecuatoriana correspondiente de la Espaola. T. 1,
entrega 1 (1884)-. Quito: Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua, 1884-.
482. Mensaje de la Biblioteca Nacional. Epoca 3, no. 1 (feb.1936)-nos. 11(1940).
Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1936-1940. 11 nos.
Continued: Boletn de la Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador (item 455).
483. Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana: boletn de los Museos del Banco Central
del Ecuador. Ao 1, no. 1 (1981)-. Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1981-.
Apparently ceased publication with No. 7, corresponding to 1987.
484. Miscelnea histrica ecuatoriana: revista de investigaciones histricas de los
Museos del Banco Central del Ecuador. Ao 1, no. 1 (1988)-. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1988-.
Apparently ceased publication with No. 2, corresponding to 1989.
485. Museo Histrico: rgano del Museo de Historia de la Ciudad de Quito. Ao 1, no.
1 (mayo 1949)-. Quito: Municipalidad de Quito, 1949-.
486. Opus: revista de la Musicoteca del Banco Central del Ecuador. 1 (jun.1986)-.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1986-.
487. Oriente dominicano: misiones de Canelos y Macas. Ao 1, no. 1 (ago./sept.
1927)-. Quito: Impr. de Santo Domingo, 1927-.
488. Pginas de cultura. No. 1 (jun. de 1949)-. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca,
Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Sociales, 1949-.
489. Pginas de la historia, Galo Martnez Acosta (compilador). 1985(?)-. Quito:
Instituto Geogrfico Militar; Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia (Seccin
Ecuador), 1985(?)-.
490. Poltica y sociedad. Ao no. 1 (1984)-. Quito: FLACSO; INFOC, 1984-.
491. Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia. No. 1 (II sem. 1991)-. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1991-.
As of the late 1990s, the most important journal of Ecuadorian history being published.
The only journal as of the 1990s, moreover, to attempt to review recently published
monographs in history and related topics systematically as well as critically. Edited by
Tehis (Taller de Estudios Histricos). No. 10 (I sem. 1997) includes Indices de
contenido: nmeros 1-10.
492. Publicaciones de la Academia Arquidiocesana de Historia Eclesistica. No. 1
(ago. 1977)-. Guayaquil: Ediciones Justicia y Paz, 1977-.
493. Pucar: revista de la Facultad de Filosofa, Letras y Ciencias de la Educacin,
Universidad de Cuenca. No. 1 (1977)-. Cuenca: Departamento de Publicaciones,
Facultad de Filosofa, Letras y Ciencias de la Educacin, Universidad de Cuenca,
1977-.
494. Quitumbe: revista del Departamento de Historia y Geografa de la Facultad de
Pedagoga de la Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador. Ao. 1, no. 1 (jun. 1971). Quito: Departamento de Historia y Geografa de la Facultad de Pedagoga de la
Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1971-.
Irregular; a total of ten issues had appeared as of July 1997. Includes articles by
faculty as well as by students.
495. Revista, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Ao 1, no. 1 (ene./mar. 1945)-no. 24
506. Revista de la Universidad de Cuenca. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 18901940. No. 1 (mar. 1890)-no. 22 (abr. 1940).
Title varied: Revista cientfica y literaria de la Universidad del Azuay (1890-1912);
Revista de la Universidad del Azuay (1916).
Continued by: Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca (item 445).
507. Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil. Ao 1 (1930)-ao 14 (1943); 2 poca,
ao 1, no. 1 (1958)-. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1930-.
Title varies: Anales de la Universidad de Guayaquil (1949-1956).
508. Revista del Archivo de la Biblioteca Nacional de Quito. Ao 1, no. 1 (1937).
Quito: Biblioteca Nacional, 1937. 1 no. (209 p.)
Continued by: Anales del Archivo Nacional de Historia y Museo Unico (item 446).
509. Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas. 1 (primer semestre 1972)-ao 10, no.
19 (junio 1981). Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1972-[1990(?)].
Beginning with second issue, changed numbering to: Ao 1, no. 2 (dic. 1972)-.
In addition to having been a venue for original monographic studies, mostly on various
aspects of local and regional history, the RAHG constituted one of the only two sets of
professionally published primary sources on the past of the port city and its district as of
July 1997. The other is Actas del Cabildo colonial de Guayaquil (item 6789), also a
publication of the Archivo Histrico del Guayas. Beginning with ao 1, no. 2 (dic. 1972)
and continuing through ao 10, no. 19 (junio 1981), RAHG also listed holdings of its
Fondo de escribanos pblicos.
There are two cumulative indexes: Indices de esta revista para los aos de 19721973, 3:5 (jun. 1974), 147-181; and Indices de las revistas 5 al 8, 5:9 (jun. 1976), 99134.
510. Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay. 1 (1979)-. Cuenca:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1979-.
Irregular in appearance, but as of Jul. 1997, still being published.
511. Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca. Entrega 1
(ene. 1921)-. Cuenca: Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos, 1921-.
Title varies: Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos del Azuay.
There is a cumulative index for nos. 1-47: Rodrigo Abad Gmez and Michurn Velez
Valarezo, Indice analtico de la Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y
Geogrficos del Azuay, Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de
Cuenca, 48 (1983), 13-79.
T. 1, no. 1 (ene. 1921)-t. 2, no. 8 (jul. 1923) reprinted in photofac-simile: Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1989.
512. Revista del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y Antropolgicas.
Ao 1, no. 1 (mar. 1981)-. Quito: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y
Antropolgicas, 1981-.
Given over almost entirely to genealogical studies.
513. Revista del folklore ecuatoriano. No. 1 (oct. 1965)-. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana [para el Instituto Ecuatoriano de Folklore], 1965-.
514. Revista del IDIS: revista del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales de la
Universidad de Cuenca (I.D.I.S.). No. 1 (1975)-. Cuenca: IDIS, 1975-.
The title varies: IDIS; Revista IDIS; Revista del I.D.I.S.
515. Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore. No. 1 (ene. 1968)-. Cuenca: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1968-.
No. 10 (abr. 1989) includes a cumulative: Indice onomstico y de ttulos de las
Revistas del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore (p. 128-131).
516. Revista del Instituto de Historia Martima. Ao 1, no 1 (dic. 1986)-. Guayaquil:
Instituto de Historia Martima, 1986-.
Variant title: Revista, Instituto de Historia Martima.
517. Revista del Ncleo del Caar. No. 1 (mar. 1955)-. Azogues: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Caar, 1953-.
518. Revista del Ncleo de Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. T. 1, no. 1
(1968)-. Ibarra: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Imbabura, 1968-.
Continues: Revista, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Imbabura (item 497).
519. Revista ecuatoriana de educacin. Vol. 1, no. 1 (jul./ago. 1947)-. Quito: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1947-.
520. Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica. Ao. 1, no. 1 (primer semestre
1987)-. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1987-.
Publishes original studies and reprints articles and sources originally published in other
countries. Articles originally appearing in another language are translated. Makes
available materials that most Ecuadorian scholars probably would not see otherwise.
Not published for 1991-1993; may have ceased publication with no. 12 (segundo
semestre 1995).
521. Sarance: revista del Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa. 1 (oct. 1975)-. Otavalo:
Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1975-.
Also numbered: Ao 1, no 1-.
522. Unin literaria. Ao 1, no. 1 (abr. de 1893)-ser. 8, no. 7/9 (jun. 1937). Cuenca:
Unin Literaria, 1893-1938.
523. Universidad. No. 1 (1967)-. Guayaquil: Universidad Catlica de Santiago de
Guayaquil, 1967-.
Here within cited as: Universidad, Universidad Catlica de Guayaquil.
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
HISTORIA
OBRAS GENERALES Y MISCELANEAS
The first general history of Ecuador was Father Juan de Velascos Historia del Reino de
Quito. Completed in 1789, while he was in exile in Faenza, the expelled Jesuits work
was not published until nearly a half century after his death in a less than satisfactory
version (Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1841- 1844; 3 v.), and had to wait almost two
centuries to be published in scholarly acceptable versions (see items 540 and 1532).
The next attempt at a general history was Pedro Fermn Cevalloss six volume
Resumen de la historia del Ecuador (Lima, 1870-1873; 2 ed. rev., Guayaquil, 1886Lima, 1888), for the specifics of which see items 553 and 554. Only two other writermakers of history produced general histories during the nineteenth century, Francisco
Xavier Aguirre Abad and Federico Gonzlez Surez. Aguirre Abads Bosquejo histrico
did not appear until many years after his death too (see item 529), and Gonzlez
Surezs eight volume Historia general de la Repblica del Ecuador (item 1388)
advanced only as far as the late colonial period.
The twentieth century saw a number of general histories, ranging from one volume
essays to multi-authored as well as multivolume sets. Among the shorter works,
undoubtedly the best was: Leopoldo Benites Vinuezas Ecuador, drama y paradoja
(item 537). The most comprehensive and scholarly of the multivolume histories was the
truly new Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615). Also important was Piedad
Peaherrera de Costales and Alfredo Costales Samaniegos pioneering four volume
Historia social del Ecuador (item 620).
A number of high school or upper form and university texts--some of which are
important as syntheses or because of their influence upon one or more generations of
students and scholars--appeared in the twentieth century too. At the risk of being
invidious, the most noteworthy were: Gabriel Cevallos Garcas Historia del Ecuador
(item 555); and Oscar Efrn Reyess Breve historia general del Ecuador (item 636).
Until the 1960s, the writing of history was dominated by amateurs and autodidacts. For
the most part they limited themselves to political, ecclesiastical, and cultural
developments. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, a cadre of professionally trained
scholars, exemplified by the producers of the Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615),
with different interests and new approaches to the past, started to come into their own.
By new history is meant not just demographic history, economic history, ethnohistory,
and/or social history but the borrowing of methodologies and models from practitioners
of the Social Sciences. By the 1990s, the subjugation of the past to professionally
albeit at times awkwardly manipulated lenses and its filtering through a myriad of Social
Scientific paradigms appears to have been in ascendency and to have begun the
process of eclipsing the amateur and autodidactic studies that had previously slighted
albeit not ignored altogether socioeconomic events and developments in their multiple
aspects. Nonetheless, the amateurs and autodidacts continued to find outlets for their
work, even if this meant establishing new journals such as Revista de la Sociedad de
Amigos de la Genealoga or Revista del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones
Genealgicas y Antropolgicas.
There was no comprehensive, up-to-date history of Ecuador in English as of the late
1990s, but the assiduous reader could piece one together, more or less, from: the
bilingual but difficult to obtain edition of Cevallos Garcas Historia nacional del Ecuador
(item 556); C. Reginald Enocks early twentieth-century Ecuador (item 575); Lowry
Walkers regrettably rare Tumult at Dusk (item 600); Magnus Mrners The Andean
Past (item 608); Frederick B. Pikes The United States and the Andean Republics:
Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador (item 1965); and Victor Wolfgang Von Hagens Ecuador and
the Galpagos Islands (item 657).
Turning to the auxiliary disciplines, the multivolume, not yet complete (as of Dec. 1999)
Geografa bsica del Ecuador (item 581) is highly recommended. As are also two
superb historical geographic studies: Jean-Paul Delers Gense de lespace quatorien
(item 564) and Alain Dublys Los poblados del Ecuador (item 568). The ethnohistory of
the country had become somewhat better known than it used to be. See especially
items 539 and 607.
527. Actas del primer Congreso de Historia del Negro en el Ecuador y Sur de
Colombia: Esmeraldas 14-16 de Octubre, 1988: VI Jornadas Nacionales, V
Internacionales de Genealoga e Historia Social, coordinador: Rafael Savoia, 1 ed.
Quito: Edicin Centro Cultural Afro-Ecuatoriano, Departamento de Pastoral AfroEcuatoriano, 1988. 272 p. (Coleccin CCA; vol. 1) (Coleccin SAG; t. 38)
Contents: Pedro Porras Garcs, Evidencias arqueolgicas sobre la presencia del
hombre de raza negra en la prehistoria ecuatoriana (p. 15-28); Rafael Savoia, El
negro Alonso de Illescas y sus descendientes (entre 1553-1867) (p. 29-62); Rafael
Savoia, Asentamientos nebros en el norte de la Provincia de Esmeraldas (1761-1825)
(p. 63-80); Alfonso Castro Chiriboga, Revolucin de Concha (p. 81-86); Jos Mayorga
Barona, Los Pimentel de Esmeraldas: sntesis de u cudruplo fluido tnico (p. 87111); Ezio Garay Arellano, La lite econmica de los negros de Guayaquil de 1742 a
1765 (p. 113-121); Ezio Garay Arellano, Los negros en Guayaquil en 1850 (p. 123133); Fernando Jurado Noboa, El aporte de Africa a la historia y a la genealoga
ecuatorianas (p. 135-152); Fernando Jurado Noboa, Presidentes del Ecuador con
ancestro africano (p. 153-169); Rosario Coronel, Indios y esclavos negros en el Valle
del Chota colonial (p. 171-187); Leopoldo Jibaja Rubio, Casos de compra y venta de
esclavos en la sierra ecuatoriana (1778-1838) (p. 189-192); Gerardo Andrade
Gonzlez, Aprecio econmico y desprecio social del negro (p. 193-225); Francisco U.
541. Bork, Albert William; and Georg Maier. Historical Dictionary of Ecuador.
Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1973. 192 p.
Superficial in coverage and riddled with errors.
542. Bossano, Guillermo. Disertaciones. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1979. 209 p.
543. Bossano, Guillermo. Mensaje de ecuatorianidad, 2 ed. Quito: Edit. Fr. Jodoco
Ricke, 1973. xiii, 329 p.
Bossano mensajes, not mensaje inasmuch as this work is a compendium of patriotic
and political discourses, are those of a white, middle class, traditional liberal on the one
hand and of an attorney and pedagogue on the other. These discourses. almost all of
which date from the 1960s, should be read as primary sources insofar as the
development of white, middle class, liberal mentality vis-a-vis national politics and
personages, historic and contemporary, during the second third of the twentieth century
or thereabouts, and on the Ateneo Ecuatoriano, founded in 1938 and of which Bossano
(1920-) was a leading and long term member, are concerned.
544. Bossano, Guillermo. Vicisitudes de la nacionalidad ecuatoriana: mirajes histricosociolgicos de la conquista a travs del proceso vital patrio, 3 ed. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1975. 256 p.
Originally published: Quito: [s.n.], 1949. 180 p. Tesis universitaria previa a la
incorporacin al cuerpo de abogados de la Repblica. Nominally a review of the
origins of the Kingdom of Quito or nation of Ecuador in the prehispanic period,
beginning with the Scyri and continuing through the Inca conquest, the Spanish
conquest, the 10 de agosto, etc. In this work Bossano confuses nation with country
and myth with history. Apparently the reason for this works popularity lies in Bossanos
application of legends and traditions to the defense of Ecuadors right to the territory
permanently lost to Peru in 1941. Without meaning to denigrate the importance or
even the vital role legends and traditions play in societies, I wish to make it clear that
Bossanos Vicisitudes de la nacionalidad ecuatoriana belongs to the deplorable genre
that interprets mythos literally and has little, if any, use for logos.
545. Bromley, R.J. Precolonial Trade and the Transition to a Colonial Market System
in the Audiencia of Quito, Nova americana, 1 (1978), 269-283.
Discusses patterns of trade prior to the Spanish conquest and examines the transition
from the indigenous to the European system of trade and markets during the colonial
period. Based on archival research as well as published materials. Also published in
Spanish as: El comercio precolonial y la transicin a un sistema de mercado colonial
en la Audiencia de Quito, Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 1:1 (primer
semestre 1987), 41-58.
546. Burgos, Dalton. Historia de las luchas populares. Quito: Centro de Estudios y
Difusin Social, CEDIS, 1985-1988. 5 v.
The statement of responsibility appears on the inside of the front cover of this works. In
fascculos 1-4, it reads: Textos: Dalton Burgos; Ayudante de investigacin: Eduardo
ideological discourse, not as historical discourse. Originally published by the Edit Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in 1967 in 237 pages , and reprinted by Libresa in Quito in
1992 in 275 pages.
550. Carrin, Fernando. Evolucin del espacio urbano ecuatoriano, Nueva historia
del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 12, p. 37-72.
A schematic analysis of the role of cities from the Spanish conquest through the census
of 1982. Divided into two macro-periods, 1534-1895 and 1895-1983.
551. Carrin, Germn. Ecuador fundamental. Guayaquil: A.G. Senefelder, 1980. 247
p.
Amenably written Ecuador fundamental should be read not as an introduction to the
geography and history of the country but as yet another example of the extent to which
myth and tradition continue to permeate the mentality of middle and upper class
Ecuadorians, including not only the university educated but also university educators,
including the author of this work.
552. Cevallos, Pedro Fermn. Resumen de la historia del Ecuador: desde su origen
hasta 1845. Lima: Impr. del Estado, 1870-1873. 6 v.
See under 553.
553. Cevallos, Pedro Fermn. Resumen de la historia del Ecuador: desde su origen
hasta 1845, 2 ed. rev. Guayaquil: Impr. de la Nacin, 1886-Lima: Impr. del Estado,
1888. 6 v.
A classic history of the country through 1845. Primarily political in coverage with some
attention paid to economic and social developments, however, especially in vol. 6.
Listed under Ceballos in some library catalogs, including the Library of Congresss
Catalog of Printed Cards, for no valid reason. The first edition (item 552) included the
rare Geografa poltica (t. 6; Lima, 1873)--a copy of which I have seen in the private
library of Dr. Miguel Daz Cueva. Tomo 6 of the original edition was withdrawn by
Cevallos before more than a few copies could circulate because he was dissatisfied
with it.; it was retitled Geografa de la Repblica del Ecuador in the 2 ed.
The 2 ed. is available in several reprints (e.g.: Historia del Ecuador. Ambato: El
Municipio, 1985-1986) Selections from the work as a whole were published as: Pedro
Fermn Cevallos, estudio y selecciones de Isaac J. Barrera. Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica,
Jr., 1959. 517 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima; [18])
A digest in the form of a catechism, Compendio de la historia del Ecuador, was
supposed to have been adopted as an official text in the national school system in
1871, nominally a tribute to his objectivity. That the conservative Garca Moreno
should adopt the work of a conservative intellectual, however, is not surprising. The
earliest edition of the Compendio that I have been able to verify, however, dates from
1879: Quito: Impr. del Clero. 435 p.
554. Cevallos, Pedro Fermn. Instituciones del derecho prctico ecuatoriano. Quito:
Impr. de los Hurfanos de Valencia, 1867. iii, 349 p.
The multifaceted Cevallos was also a practicing attorney. It is not surprising therefore
that he should have produced a treatise on contemporary legal practices, as much
Hispanic and Napoleonic in origin as sui generis. This work is also a commentary on
the political system of the times.
555. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Historia del Ecuador: texto. Cuenca: Banco Central del
Ecuador, Centro de Investigaciones y Cultura, 1987. 645 p. (Obras completas, Gabriel
Cevallos Garca; 3)
Reprint; originally published: Cuenca, 1967. A standard upper form/junior college level
text. Nonetheless, a solid survey of developments and events through the early 1960s.
556. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Historia nacional del Ecuador, edicin bilinge =
bilingual edition. Cuenca: Romlacio Editor, [1992?]. 399 p.: ill.
A bilingual edition of what has become a standard history of Ecuador (item 555).
Includes a section on the prehistory of the country by Juan Cordero Iiguez.
Chronologically updated by Antonio Lloret Bastidas. Enriched with appropriate
illustrations.
557. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Visin terica del Ecuador. Puebla, Mxico: Cajica,
1959. 627 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima; [1])
A thought provoking, occasionally brilliant essay on how Ecuador came into being
(Integracin del territorio), what it means to be Ecuadorian (Configuracin del
hombre), and how Ecuador became as nation state and what Ecuador had become as
of the mid-twentieth century (Para entender bien al Ecuador). Of course, it has to be
understood that the Ecuador in question is that of the blanco and the mestizo who
consider him/herself to be and is considered to be a blanco and the Ecuadorian, the
blanco and the mestizo who functions as a blanco. See also items 216 and 217.
Reprinted: Cuenca: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigaciones y Cultura,
1987.
558. Las Ciudades en la historia, Eduardo Kingman Garcs, coordinador; Lucas Achig
[et al.]. Quito: CIUDAD, 1989. 456 p.
Publishes some of the papers presented at the Seminario Las Ciudades en la Historia
realizado en noviembre de 1987 con los auspicios del Consejo Nacional de
Universidades y Escuelas Politcnicas, la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad
Central, la Asociacin de Historiadores del Ecuador, el CIID de Canad, la Fundacin
Quito y el Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD, institucin a cargo de la cual estuvo la
organizacin del evento. All but one of the published papers have to do with the
history of cities and towns in Ecuador, the state of which several of the ponencias here
within included considerably enhanced.
Partial contents: Antonio Narvez R. Quito: la conquista del territorio de la ciudad (p.
25-43); Vctor Hugo Torres, Los municipios ecuatorianos: historia de una derrota (p.
45-57); Galo Ramn, El territorio y los asentamientos en las sociedades norandinas
(p. 81-134); Ins del Pino, Caractersticas de la arquitectura prehispnica del Ecuador
(p. 135-157); Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, Visin general de las fundaciones y del urbanismo
colonial espaol en el territorio de la antigua Audiencia de Quito (p. 161-186); Jorge
Oriente; Rolf Blomberg, The Galpagos Islands; Jorge Enrique Adoum, Cultural
Facts; Lillian Robinson, Ecuador in Foreign Eyes.
570. Ecuador, In the Shadow of the Volcanos, Misael Acosta Sols [et al.]. Quito: Libri
Mundi, 1981. 302 p.
A more recent, considerably more detailed, and linguistically more accommodating
introduction to Ecuador and Ecuadorians than item 569. Also published in a new or
[2nd] ed. in 1991. In Italian as: Ecuador allombra dei vulcani. Venezia: Erizzo Ed.,
1981; and in Spanish as: Ecuador a la sombra de los volcanes. Quito: Libri Mundi,
1981.
Contents: H.N. Hoeck, Galpagos, the Islands of the Past and Present; H.N. Hoeck,
Different Types of Volcanoes in Ecuador; H.N. Hoeck, Galpagos, a Challenge for
the Preservation of Species; J.G. Marcos, A Brief Prehistory of Ecuador; P. Norton,
Excavations on the Sacred island of La Plata; G. Rossi-Osmida, Voyages and
Explorations in the Ecuador of Atahualpa; J. Bottasso, The Price of Survival: the
Shuar; J.A. Yost, People of the Forest: the Waorani; G. Ligabue, Survival and
Environments of Ecuador; M. Acosta Sols, Ecology and Conservation of Nature in
Ecuador; E. Patzelt, Flora and Fauna of Ecuador; G. Rallo, The Guacharo; G. Rallo,
The Harpy Eagle; P. Basaglia, Classification of Dwellings and Boats of Ecuador;
Photographic Documentation.
571. Ecuador indgena: aspectos histricos y actuales de la cultura andina, 1 ed.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1989. 146 p.
The third issue of Ecuador indgena.
Contents: Marcelo Valdospinos Rubio, Nomenclatura y mestizaje (p. 13-18); Hernn
Jaramillo Cisneros, El teido de lana con cochinilla en Salasaca, Tungurahua (p. 1931); Carlos Alberto Coba Andrade, Visin histrica de la msica en el Ecuador (p. 3362); Segundo E. Moreno Ynez, Historiografa indgena y tradicin de lucha (p. 6370); Hernn Jaramillo Cisneros, La alpargatera: una antigua actividad artesanal en
Imbabura (p. 71-97); Carlos Alberto Coba Andrade, Comentario a una fiesta que ha
muerto: El Coraza (p. 99-104); Johann Von Kessel, Los espacios andinos y urbano y
su articulacin: validez de los conceptos (p. 105-125); Ceciel Kockelmans, El
fandango en las fiestas privadas de los indgenas de Otavalo, Ecuador (p. 127-138);
Betsy Salazar, Comunidad de Calpaqu: tecnologa utilizada actualmente por la familia
rural y/o incorporacin de tecnologas apropiadas (p. 139-146).
572. Ecuador pasado y presente, Leonardo Meja [et al.]. Quito: Edit. Universitaria,
1975. 273 p.
A set of essays on the economic history of prehistoric, colonial, and modern Ecuador by
a group of at the time young social scientists, written from the perspective of historical
modernism, equivalent in their minds to la teora moderna de la historia. Relatively
sophisticated. Had a major, continuing impact on national historiography. Also
published in a ed. actualizada with an added chapter by Ren Bez on La qumera
de la modernizacin that continues coverage through the early 1990s: Quito: Libresa,
1995. 227 p.
mestizaje would eventually resolve the problems of the country. Does not even contain
a detailed or insightful paradigm of the class structure. Important, nonetheless, a
source for the study of the history of ideas and mentalities in Ecuador.
581. Geografa bsica del Ecuador. Quito: CEDIG, Centro Ecuatoriano de
Investigacin Geogrfica, 1983-<1991>. <5> v.
This work may be treated and should be thought of as a whole--even though it is multiauthored as well as multi-thematic--inasmuch it was conceived of as an integral set, not
as a series, and because for the most part it succeeds as an integral set. For its
component parts as of July 1997, see: t. 1, El Manejo del espacio (item 565); t. 2, vol.
1, Transicin demogrfica (item 8719); t. 2, vol. 2, Geografa de la salud (item 8520), t.
3, El Espacio urbano (item 6605); and t. 5, vol. 1, Transformaciones agrarias (item
7877). An exceptionally comprehensive and sophisticated geography.
582. Gmez E., Nelson. Organizacin del espacio ecuatoriano, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 12, p. 9-36.
A less than satisfactory essay. Not even an acceptable synthesis of the contemporary
state of knowledge.
583. Goncharova, Valerian M. Ecuador: tierra y hombres. Guayaquil: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1979. 144 p.
A set of essays by a Marxist-Leninism on indigenous movements, Eloy Alfaro, Enrique
Gil Gilbert, and related developments and personages of interest to the Communist
world. I could forgive Goncharova his ideological bias if he at least got his facts right
but this could not have happened, given his dependence on such fellow travelers as
Oswaldo Albornoz and fictionalizers like Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco.
584. Gonzlez, Luis Aurelio. Ideario y remembranzas. Quito: Impr. Luz de Amrica,
1961. 261 p.
585. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. De la disgregacin gentilicia a la esclavitud patriarcal en el
Ecuador. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana: Ncleo del Guayas, 1981. 107
p. (i.e., p. 19-128).
Should have been listed under Perodo prehispnico inasmuch as it is an attempt to
reconstruct the economic, political, and social structures of the ethnic groups of the
central coast during the Integration period. An significant essay that contain some
important insights. Maintains that the League of Merchants was on the point of
becoming a nation state. See also items 891 and 892.
Published together with Gorki Elizalde, Periodizacin histrica del Ecuador (item 573).
586. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. Las tierras comunales en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1982. 109 p.
587. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Ultima miscelnea del Excmo. Sr. D. Federico
Gonzlez Surez, arzobispo de Quito, recogida y publicada por el Excmo. Sr. D.
Manuel Mara Plit. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1932. 559 p.
Consists of miscellaneous letters and religious, archaeological, historical, literary, and
scientific essays of the archbishop-historian. See also items 5035 and 5036.
588. Guevara, Daro C. Las mingas en el Ecuador, Anales de la Universidad Central
del Ecuador, 86:341 (1957), 163-310.
An essay on corvee labor practices, past and mid-twentieth-century. Also published as
a monograph: Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1957. 168 p.
589. Harris, Leo J.; Percy Bargholtz; and Rodrigo Pez Tern. Ecuador, historia postal
y catlogo de marcas prefilatlicas. New York: Collectors Club, Inc., 1984. 98 p.
590. Historia del Ecuador. Quito: Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, 1980-1982. 8 v.
A multi-authored history of Ecuador from prehistoric times through the recent present.
More traditional than innovative in approach as the majority of the authors were/are
members of the old guard. Worthwhile but difficult to obtain inasmuch as it was issued
in fascicles. Profusely illustrated.
591. La Historia del Ecuador: ensayos de interpretacin, editor, Enrique Ayala M.
Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1985. 403 p.
An anthology of grand sweep, highly interpretative essays by leading members of the
new and old guard.
592. Historiadores y crticos literarios. Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1959. 548 p.
(Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima; [19])
Consists of selections from the writings of Pablo Herrera, Pedro Moncayo, Juan Len
Mera, Abelardo Moncayo, Vctor Len Vivar Correa, Manuel J. Calle, Julio E. Moreno,
Nicols Jimnez, Alejandro Andrade Coello, Manuel Mara Plit Laso, Camilo Destruge,
Jos Gabriel Pino Roca, Modesto Chvez Franco, and Pedro Jos Huerta.
593. Huerta Rendn, Francisco. Historia del Ecuador. Barcelona: Cartongraf, 1966.
312 p.
One of the better surveys. Especially strong on the prehispanic period, the authors
forte.
594. Idrobo Urigen, Tarquino Anbal. Ecuador inmortal: lecturas para las nuevas
generaciones. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1950. 239 p.
A set of essays on the history and great men of the country.
595. Investigacin histrica de la minera en el Ecuador, [realizada por] Maximina
Navarro Crdenas, 2 ed. Quito: Direccin de Industrias del Ejrcito, 1990. 527 p.
Consists of chronologically ordered extracts from primary and secondary sources on
mining in Ecuador. Most of the materials date from the colonial period and had not
been published previously.
596. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. Estudios histricos, 2 ed. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1960. 499 p.
Contents: La revolucin del 10 de agosto de 1809: apuntamientos para su estudio;
La dictadura de Bolvar; Caudillos y dictadores; En defensa de Rocafuerte;
Montalvo poltico; El general Eloy Alfaro; La victimacin [sic] del Gral. Alfaro y sus
tenientes; Don Abelardo Moncayo y su poca; Resumen histrico del rgimen
constitucional ecuatoriano; Ubicacin histrica del descubrimiento y conquista del
Maran y Amazonas; Los tratados con Colombia; Sntesis histrica y jurdica de la
nacionalidad ecuatoriana y de su defensa territorial.
597. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. La nacin quitea: perfil biogrfico de una cultura.
Quito: Edit. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1958. 566 p.
Contents: La nacin quitea; Reflexiones sobre el Reino de Quito y sus Shyris;
Atahualpa, creador de la nacionalidad quitea; Algo ms sobre la nacionalidad de
Atahualpa; El secreto de Guayaquil en la entrevista de Bolvar y San Martn; El gran
mariscal Jos de La Mar: su posicin histrica; La gobernacin de Quito y el
descubrimiento del Amazonas.
598. Jordn M., Aniceto. Revoluciones criollas. Quito: Ediciones Antorcha, 1938. 146
p.
A Marxist interpretation of rebellions and revolutions in Ecuador. See also item 604.
599. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Notas de prehistoria e historia ecuatoriana. Quito:
Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1971. 370 p.
An anthology of previously published essays on the prehispanic period and on
archaeologists, historians, and other students of Ecuador.
600. Lowry, Walker. Tumult at Dusk: Being an Account of Ecuador, Its Indians, Its
Conquerors, Its Colonists, Its Rebels, Its Dictators, Its Politicians, Its Landowners, Its
Artists and Its Priests with a Prologue and an Epilogue. San Francisco: Grabhorn
Press, 1963. 159 p.
According to Norris (223:3533), Tumult of Dusk sic recounts los viajes del autor por el
Ecuador en busca de caucho durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial [con] algunas
observaciones sobre la sociedad, la poltica y la cultura. Although Norris is partly right,
Lowrys Tumult at Dusk is much more than a travel account; it is also a general history
of Ecuador. Unfortunately it was issued in only 100 copies.
601. Luna Tamayo, Milton. Estado, regionalizacin y lucha poltica del Ecuador,
1800-1869, Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 7 (1987),
105-127.
A thoughtful essay on regionalism, incipient nationalism, and civil strife during the late
colonial, independence, and early national periods. Also published in: Quitumbe, 6
(1987), 45-55; and in: Memorias del V Congreso Nacional de Historia y Geografa del
Ecuador (item 559), p. 323-345.
602. Martnez Amador, Joaqun. Ecuador, races y esperanzas, 1 ed. Guayaquil:
Senefelder, 1995. 310 p.
603. Memorias del primer Simposio Europeo sobre Antropologa del Ecuador,
compilador, Segundo E. Moreno Ynez. Bonn: Instituto de Antropologa Cultural,
Universidad de Bonn; Quito: Abya-Yala, 1985. 452 p.
610. Muoz Vicua, Elas. El Ecuador, un pas clsico. Guayaquil: Edit. U.G., 1988.
358 p.
A general history.
611. Navas Jmenez, Mario Oswaldo. Historia del Ecuador. Quito: M.O. Navas
Jmenez, 1990. 212 p.
612. El Negro en la historia: aportes para el conocimiento de las races en Amrica
Latina: conferencias del Segundo Congreso [y] XI Jornadas de Historia Social y
Genealoga, Esmeraldas, 7-9 septiembre 1990, coordinador, Rafael Savoia, 1 ed.
Quito: Centro Cultural Afro-Ecuatoriano, Departamento de Pastoral Afro-Ecuatoriano,
1990. 230 p. (Coleccin CCA; vol. 2) (Coleccin Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga;
no. 57)
Partial contents: Fernando Jurado Noboa, Medardo Angel Silva: cspide paradgica
de la poesa afroecuatoriana (p. 11-47); Rosaura Garca A., La poblacin negra de
Quito a fines de la colonia (p. 49-56); Piedad y Alfredo Costales Completando la
historia nacional: Ambrosio Mondongo, rebelde del Chota (p. 57-64); Alfonso Castro
Chiriboga, La poblacin negra en el Quito de 1840 (p. 75-83); Fernando Jurado
Noboa, Algunos cabos sueltos sobre esclavitud y negros en la Provincia de Bolvar:
1758-1910 (p. 85-88); Marcia Stacey de Valdivieso, Negros en Chaupicruz: 16481980; Leopoldo Jibaja Rubio, Eslavitud en la sierra: 1738-1816; Jorge Villalba, Una
repblica de trabajadores negros en las minas de Zaruma en el siglo XVI (p. 121-125);
Fernando Jurado Noboa, Demografa y trascendencia del grupo africano en el
Guayaquil de 1738 (p. 143-145); Jos Mayorga Barona, Los Tobar del Tolima en
Esmeraldas: el aporte africano de los Jan en la clase alta local (p. 147-165); Ezio
Garay Arellano, Dispensas matrimoniales de negros, indios y blancos en la Provincia
de Los Ros (p. 167-192); Manuel Loor Villaquirn, Alonso de Illescas, estratega
militar y poltico (p. 193-198); Rafael Savoia, Historia social de Uimb (p. 199-230).
613. El Negro en la historia: races africanas en la nacionalidad ecuatoriana:
conferencias del Tercer Congreso [y] XVI Jornadas de Historia Social y Genealoga,
Esmeraldas, 20-22 noviembre 1992, coordinador, Rafael Savoia, 1 ed. Quito:
Ediciones Afroamrica, Centro Cultural Afro-Ecuatoriano, 1992. 239 p. (Coleccin
CCA; vol. 3) (Coleccin Medio milenio; vol. 9)
Contents: Rafael Savoia, Esmeraldas a mediados del siglo XVIII (p. 11-30); Fernando
Jurado Noboa, Esmeraldas en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII: sus tres afluentes negros
coloniales (p. 31-39); Ricardo Ordoez and Mauricio Alvarado, Anlisis del censo de
Ro Verde, Atacames y Sa (p. 41-42); Ezio Garay Arellano, Vecinos y familias de Ro
Verde en poca garciana (p. 43-55); Jos Mayorga, Esmeraldas y su poblacin de
1871 (p. 57-74); Jos Arteaga P., Alfaro y los negros (p. 75-79); Nelson Estupin
Bass, Memorias de una ciudad: 1920-1930 (p. 81-91); Julio Estupin Tello,
Esmeraldas de ayer (p. 93-98); Gustavo A. Rivadeneira, Biologa y genealoga de un
esmeraldeo de ascendencia inglesa (p. 99-127); Luis Argentina Chiriboga, Races
africanas en la nacionalidad ecuatoriana (p. 129-139); Rafael Savoia, Genealoga e
historia social del Valle del Chota y Cuenca del Ro Mira (p. 141-144); Fernando
Jurado Noboa, Una visin global sobre el Chota: 1475-1813 (p. 145-154); Salomn
Chal, Cmo vivimos en el Valle del Chota? (p. 155-165); Rosaura Garca de Plit,
El mundo negro de Cuajara al tiempo de la expulsin jesuta (p. 167-169); Rosaura
Garca de Plit, El sistema esclavista en la poca del General Flores: 1840 (p. 171181); Ezio Garay Arellano, Diecisis aos de historia documentada de las compraventas, cartas de horro y libertad de los negros de Guayaquil en el siglo XVII (p. 183202); Rafael Savoia, La presencia del hombre negro en Zaruma (p. 205-210).
614. Nicol Lpez, Gerardo. El Ecuador en cuatro siglos. Ambato: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Tungurahua, 1963. 58 p.
615. Nueva historia del Ecuador, Enrique Ayal Mora, editor. Quito: Corporacin
Editora Nacional; Grijalbo, 1983-1994. 15 v.
A multi-authored, new approach history of Ecuador from pre-Inca times through 1990.
Vols. 1-2 cover the prehispanic period; vols. 3-5, the colonial period; vol. 6, the
independence and Gran Colombian period; and vols. 7-11, the national period. Vols.
12-13 consist of grand sweep essays. Vol. 14 consists of a comparative chronology
or time lines of events in Europe, the Americas, and Ecuador itself, and vol. 15 of
documentos or sources. Almost all of the vols. include more or less useful
bibliographies, but they are incomplete: the bibliographies do not list all of the works
cited or referred to by the individual contributors. Furthermore, many of the citations
suffers from errors of commission and omission. Also this work is inadequately
indexed; the name and place indexes for vols. 1-13 (at the end of vol. 13) are
incomplete. Nonetheless, the majority of the essays are cogent, insightful syntheses of
traditional and new studies on all periods, but not all aspects in every case, of the
past of the country at large and of its component regions, cities and towns. Moreover,
almost all of the authors are professionally trained scholars and active researchers. An
exceptionally extraordinary benchmark in Ecuadorian historiography.
616. Pez, J. Roberto. Estudios de historia ecuatoriana y otros ensayos, seleccin y
prlogo por Enrique Villass Tern. Quito: Grupo Aymesa: Academia Nacional de
Historia, 1995. 592 p. (Biblioteca Grupo Aymesa; 12)
A welcome compendium of Pezs numerous, heretofore scattered essays on multiple
aspects of the history of Ecuador, especially major figures, chroniclers, sources, and
the colonial and independence periods.
617. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. Breve historia del Ecuador. Caracas: Academia
Nacional de la Historia, 1992. 386 p.
618. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. Historia del Ecuador, 2 ed. rev. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1958. 2 v.
Both items 617 and 618, are idiosyncratic and fictionalized accounts. Both are
available in several editions or versions with variant titles.
619. Peaherrera, Guillermo. Opsculos para la historia. Quito: Edit. Rumiahui,
1958. 3 v.
620. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Historia
social del Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y Geografa, 1964-
1971. 4 v.
Vols. 1-3 appeared as Nos. 17-19 of Llacta. Vol. 4: Quito: Edit. Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana. Although factually inaccurate in places--the Costales were careless in
their acceptance of data, especially quantitative data--and methodologically
unsophisticated, this work is notable because it constituted not just one of the earliest
attempts to write a social history of Ecuador from the Spanish conquest through the
1960s but more importantly to incorporate Indians and blacks, mestizos and zambos
into the mainstream of national historiography. The section on the abolition of slavery
is especially important (vol. 1, pp. 288-369).
Contents: vol. 1, El concertaje de indios y manumisin de esclavos (1964); vol. 2,
Aspectos socio-econmicos de la estructura agraria ecuatoriana (1964); vol. 3,
Recopilacin de leyes sociales indgenas de 1830 1918 (1964); vol. 4, Reforma
agraria.
621. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Los
Isaminas. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Centro de Investigaciones para la Educacin
Popular, [1986?]. 317 p.
A popular history of Ecuador. Emphasizes Indian wars, including resistance to the Inca
conquest, and uprisings.
622. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Los
Llactaios. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala: Centro de Investigaciones para la Educacin
Popular, [1985]. 238 p.
A history of Indian resistance and uprisings in Ecuador from the Spanish conquest
through the 1871 rebellion of Daquilema.
623. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Llacta runa.
Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y Geografa, 1961. 244 p. (Llacta; no. 12)
Delineates the ethnogeography of the indigenous peoples of Ecuador on the eve of
contact and circa 1960.
624. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Nos, la
plebe. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1986. 204 p.
A documented but methodologically unsophisticated study of the role of urban crowds
in riots and rebellions during the late colonial and independence periods, especially in
Quito, Cuenca, and Riobamba.
625. Prez Concha, Jorge. Escritos histricos: pginas de historia ecuatoriana, 1 ed.
Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1990. 150 p.
A potpourri of the authors historical essays.
626. Prez Guerrero, Alfredo. Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1948.
183 p.
627. Prez Guerrero, Alfredo. Semillas al viento, 1 ed. Quito: Publitcnica, 1966. xii,
229 p.
637. Ribadeneira Araujo, Jorge. Tiempos idos ..., 1 ed. Quito: [s.n.], 1988. 205 p.
638. Rivera Villavicencio, Oswaldo. Vibraciones del tiempo. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1973. 288 p.
639. Rolando, Carlos A. Cronologa histrica ecuatoriana, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 1:1 (ene. 1951), 29-42; 2:4/5 (ago. 1952), 79-100.
Covers the months of Jan. through Aug only.
640. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Apuntes para la historia de la poblacin indgena del
Ecuador, Amrica indgena, 34:3 (jul./set. 1974), 685-712.
Consists of notes for a history of Indians and indigenismo in Ecuador.
641. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Breve historia contempranea del Ecuador. Mxico:
Fondo de Cultura Econmica, 1994. 638 p.
A general history from approximately 30,000 B.C.E. through 1992. More or less
traditional in approach. Well written. Includes a brief bibliographic essay and an
onomastic index.
642. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Escorzos de historia patria. Quito: Ediciones Quitumbe,
1977. 357 p.
An anthology of previously published essays on the prehistory, protohistory and
history of the country.
643. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Introduccin al estudio de la historia general del Ecuador,
Museo Histrico, 15:43/44 (ago. 1963), 40-60.
644. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Testimonio. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1972.
486 p.
A group of miscellaneous essays, some historical, some contemporary on the Catholic
Church, significant events of the day, and major personages.
645. Segarra Iiguez, Guillermo. Historia del Ecuador. Quito: Ediciones OFIMEX,
1986-. <1 v. {268 p.}> .
Contents: t. 1, El medio natural, prehistoria.
646. Silva, Erika. Los mitos de la ecuatorianidad. Quito: Ediciones Abya Yala, 1992.
85 p.
A critical assessment of past and present relations between the several ethnic groups
that comprise the Ecuadorian nation.
647. Stornaiolo, Ugo. Anatoma de un pas latinoamericano: El Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito:
BSM, Ediciones Culturales, 1988. 300 p.
648. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Estudios sobre historia ecuatoriana, seleccin de textos
Jorge Salvador Lara; estudios introductorios por Jorge Salvador Lara [et al.]. Quito:
Grupo Aymesa: Academia Nacional de Historia, 1994. 551 p. (Biblioteca Grupo
Aymesa; 10)
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
PERIODO PREHISPANICO
Although Betty Meggers 1966 Ecuador (item 1041) has long since been superseded by
the findings of later scholars, her book continued to be the only overview of the
prehistory of the country in English. Insofar as Formative period and early Regional
Development period developments on the central-south coast are concerned, see
Donald W. Lathraps also dated 1975 Ancient Ecuador: Culture, Clay and Creativity,
3000-300 B.C. (item 996), and Karl Dieter Gartelmanns somewhat more recent but
less scholarly 1985 Digging Up Prehistory (item 880), primarily an account of
archaeological developments on the coast.
Another recent, exceptionally important work on the archaeology of the coast is the
Primer Encuentro de Investigadores de la Costa Ecuatoriana en Europa: arqueologa,
etnohistoria, antropologa sociocultural, Alvarez, Aurelio [et al.],1 ed. Quito: Ediciones
Abya-Yala, 1995. 568 p. It includes a useful list of the publications of Jos Alcina
Franch, Silvia Alvarez, F. Jean Bouchard, Alejandro Cerda Esteve, Mercedes Guinea
Bueno, Mara Luisa Laviana Cuetos, Jorge Marcos, Josefina Palop Martnez, and
Montserrat Ventura i Oller on the Area Septentrional Andina (p. 535-553).
The prehispanic period in what would become Ecuador cannot be understood without
taking into account developments in neighboring Peru and elsewhere in the Andean
culture area. At the time this bibliography was compiled, the best of the most recent
surveys were: Michael E. Moseleys The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology
of Peru (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1992); Craig Morris and Adriana Von Hagens
The Inka Empire and Its Andean Origins (New York: Abbeville Press, 1993); and from
the historical point of view, Mara Rostworowski de Diez Cansecos fundamental
Historia del Tahuantinsuyu, 4a ed. (Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1992), the
product of forty years of archival research.
Rostworowski de Diez Cansecos work, also available in an English version, History of
the Inca Realm(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), should force a revision
of many of the myths regarding not only the struggle for supremacy between Huascar
and Atahualpa but also the alleged nationality of Atahualpa and the implications
thereof. That Atahualpa was a cuzqueo and full fledged Inca in every sense are no
longer subject to doubt.
Perhaps the most controversial theme in the history of the prehispanic period is whether
the Kingdom of Quito existed. I for one do not believe that it did. Nonetheless, the
term Kingdom of Quito or Reino de Quito has been employed in the annotations to
this section and in the subject headings in reference to the mythical polity created by
Juan de Velasco. For a detailed discussion of the furor the negation of Velascos Cara
and/or Shyri Reino de Quito used to generate, see Neptal Zuigas Atahualpa (item
3698), esp. p. 42-76. See also item 202.
Furthermore, I do not believe that the Kingdom of Quito came into existence during
the colonial period either, at least, not as usually defined. Juridically the Reino de
Quito was created and did exist by imperial fiat. Institutionally it corresponded to the
Presidency, if not the Audiencia, of Quito--jurisdictionally and therefore territorially two
distinct entities. But in fact there appear to have been at least three kingdoms during
the colonial period, the independence period, and for some time thereafter during the
national period as well: the kingdoms of Cuenca (i.e., the southern highlands),
Guayaquil (the central and southern coast), and Quito (the northern and central
highlands).
659. 5000 aos de ocupacin, Parque Nacional Machalilla, Presley Norton, Marco
Vinicio Garca, editores. Quito: Centro Cultural Artes; Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992. 102
p.
660. Actas del primer Simposio de Correlaciones Antropolgicas Andinomesoamericanas (Salinas, Ecuador, 1971), edicin de Jorge G. Marcos y Presley
Norton. Guayaquil: Escuela Superior Politcnica del Litoral, 1982. xiii, 495 p.
661. Agro, Robert J. Algunas sugerencias ambientales determinantes que se
relacionan con la geografa poltica del Per preincsico y del sur del Ecuador,
Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 22:39 (1972), 186-209.
662. Alcina Franch, Jos. La arqueologa de Esmeraldas (Ecuador): introduccin
general. Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Direccin General de Relaciones
Culturales, 1979. 165 p. (Memorias de la Misin Arqueolgica Espaola en el
Ecuador; vol. 1)
A solid survey of the prehistory of Esmeraldas. Based on nearly a decade of extensive
as well as intensive field and archival research by a team of Spanish archaeologists
and historians. For other volumes in this set see items 796, 909, and 1203, and for
papers on related findings and results, items 700, 759, 777, 783, 908, 910, 911, 1165.
1204-1206, and 1268.
663. Alcina Franch, Jos, La arqueologa de Esmeraldas, Ecuador: una investigacin
interdisciplinaria, Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, 298 (abr. 1975), 132-159.
This items and items 664, 665, 670, and 672 are reports by Alcina Franch on the field
work done in the 1970s by himself and other members of the Proyecto Arqueologa de
Esmeraldas. The first report appears to have been Alcina Franchs Exploracin
arqueolgica en costa de Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Revista espaola de antropologa
americana, 6 (1971), 125-142.
664. Alcina Franch, Jos. La arqueologa de Esmeraldas: un proyecto de
investigacin interdisciplinaria, Boletn de informaciones cientficas nacionales (Quito),
15:109/110 (1979), 130-139.
665. Alcina Franch, Jos. Un bosquejo de la arqueologa de Esmeraldas, Cuadernos
de historia y arqueologa, 25:42 (1975), 9-50.
666. Alcina Franch, Jos. Las cabezas-clava de Ingapirca, Ecuador, Indiana, 8
(1983), 229-242.
667. Alcina Franch, Jos. Excavaciones arqueolgicas en Ingapirca, Ecuador,
Historiografa y bibliografa americanistas, 21 (1977), 237-240.
668. Alcina Franch, Jos. Los indios Caaris de la sierra sur del Ecuador,
Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 6:6 (1986), 141-188.
683. Andrade Marn, Luciano. El Reino de Quito. Quito: Edit. Los Andes, 1954. 260
p.
Supports the thesis that a prehispanic Kingdom of Quito existed.
684. Andrade Reimers, Luis. El siglo heroico. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador,
Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1992. 281 p. (Coleccin histrica; vol. 22)
A noteworthy but considerably biased attempt to reconstruct the history of the Inca
conquest of what is now Ecuador, the alleged civil war between Quito and Cuzco-the least satisfactory section of the work--and the Spanish conquest of what would
become the Kingdom of Quito. In Andrades hands, Atahualpa becomes a hero franco
y leal por temperamento ... See also items 1307 and 1308.
685. Aruz, Julio. La Tolita. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1946. 89 p.
Historiographically interesting but archaeologically superficial.
686. Arellano, A. Jorge. Asentamientos arqueolgicos tardos del perodo de
integracin en la Cuenca del Ro Chumbo, Ecuador, Sarance, 16 (ago. 1992), 173204.
687. Arias Palacios, Hugo. Evolucin socioeconmica del Ecuador: sociedades
primitivas y perodo colonial. Guayaquil: Departamento de Publicaciones, Facultad de
Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil, 1980. 310 p.
A major analysis of economic and social events and developments of the prehispanic
and colonial periods. Unfortunately this work has not had much of an impact on the
historiography of either period, probably because it appeared in a limited, poorly
distributed edition. At the same time, it should be noted that Arias was not familiar with
all of the relevant literature.
688. Archologisch Funde aus Ecuador, herausgegeben von Helmut Schindler; mit
Beitragen von Udo Oberem, Roswith Hartmann, Hennng Bischof. Munchen:
Staatliches Museum fur Vlkerkunde, 1991. 87 p.
689. Arqueologa de la costa ecuatoriana: nuevos enfoques, editor Jorge Marcos.
Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional; Guayaquil: ESPOL, 1986. 300 p.
A set of essays by Jorge G. Marcos, Donald W. Lathrap, James A. Zeidler, Deborah M.
Pearsall, and Silvia Alvarez on rescue archaeology, with particular reference to local
and regional sites.
690. Arqueologa y etnohistoria del sur de Colombia y norte del Ecuador: simposio del
45 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Universidad de los Andes, 1-7 julio 1985,
Bogot, Colombia, compiladores: Jos Alcina Franch, Segundo E. Moreno Ynez.
Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador; Quito: Abya- Yala, 1986. 288 p.
Papers presented at the 45th International Congress of Americanists. Contributions on
Ecuador are entered separately under their authors.
691. Arriaga, Jess. Apuntes de arqueologa Caar. Cuenca: Universidad de
Cuenca, 1965. 120 p.
Reprint; originally published: Cuenca: Impr. del Clero, 1922. 103 p. Also reprinted in
Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 21:3 (jul./sept. 1965), 399-512.
692. Artieda, Alfonso Anbal. Cochasqui: historia de una civilizacin destruida. Quito:
Tip. Hispana, 1978. 37 leaves.
693. Athens, J. Stephen. Evolutionary Process in Complex Societies and the Late
Period Cara Occupation of Northern Highland Ecuador. 1978. xix, 310 leaves. Thesis
(Ph.D.)--University of New Mexico.
Published in Spanish as: El proceso evolutivo en las sociedades complejas y la
ocupacin del perodo tardo Cara en los Andes septentrionales del Ecuador. Otavalo:
Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1980. 307 p. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 2)
694. Athens, J. Stephen. Formative Period Occupations in the Highlands of Northern
Ecuador: A Comment on Meyers, American Antiquity, 48:3 (July 1978), 493-496.
See item 1052.
695. Athens, J. Stephen. Pampuentsa 1: un sitio arqueolgico cerca del Ro Macuma
en el Oriente ecuatoriano, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 4:4 (1984), 129-140.
696. Athens, J. Stephen. The Site of Pampuentsa and the Pastaza Phase in
Southeastern Lowland Ecuador, awpa Pacha, 24 (1986), 111-124.
697. Athens, J. Stephen. Teora evolutiva y montculos prehistricos de la sierra
septentrional del Ecuador, Sarance, 7 (oct. 1979), 29-44.
698. Athens, J. Stephen; and Alan J. Osborn. Investigaciones arqueolgicas en la
sierra norte del Ecuador: dos estudios preliminares. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de
Antropologa, 1974. 108 p.
699. Barnes, Monica; and David Fleming. Charles-Marie de la Condamines Report
on Ingapirca and the Development of Scientific Field Work in the Andes, 1735-1744,
Andean Past, 2 (1989), 175-236.
Translates into English La Condamines report on Ingapira and comments upon its
value as source for reconstruction of the site and its functions. Perhaps the most
important point Barnes and Fleming make is that archaeologists too often overlook the
labors of their predecessors and cultivators of other fields.
700. Barriuso Prez, Mara Angeles. Sistemas de enterramiento en Atacames
(Esmeraldas), Actes du XLIIe Congrs international des amricanistes: Paris, 1976,
vol. 9a (Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 979), p. 245-257.
701. Barros Grez, Daniel. La escritura entre los Caaris, Actas de la Sociedad
Cientfica de Chile, 3 (1893), 162-170.
Reprinted in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 9 (abr. 1986), 251-262.
702. Batchelor, Bruce E. Los camellones de Cayambe en la sierra del Ecuador,
Amrica indgena, 40:4 (oct./dic. 1980), 671-689.
703. Baumann, Peter. Valdivia: d. Entdeckung d. ltesten Kultur Amerikas. Frankfurt
730. Bonifaz, Emilio. Obsidianas del paleo-indio de la regin del Ilal. Quito: E.
Bonifaz, 1978. 104 p.
731. Bonifaz, Emilio. Origen del hombre ecuatoriano, Sarance: revista del Instituto
Otavaleo de Antropologa, 4 (jul. 1977), 5-14.
732. Bonifaz, Emilio; Sylvia Elizondo; and Bernard Vandermeersch. El hombre fsil
de Punn, resto fsil no. 2 (Ecuador, Amrica del Sur), Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 65:139/140 (ene./dic. 1982), 5-24.
733. Bouchard, Jean-Franois. Evidencias de relaciones interculturales en la regin
norte (sur de Colombia y norte del Ecuador), Relaciones interculturales en el area
ecuatorial del Pacfico durante la poca precolombina (item 1162), p. 29-44.
Reexamines the question of cultural influence of the central coast of Ecuador upon the
north coast of Ecuador and the southern coast of Colombia during the Late Formative
and Regional Development periods.
734. Bouchard, Jean-Franois. Las ms antiguas culturas precolombinas del Pacfico
ecuatorial septentrional, Arqueologa y etnohistoria del sur de Colombia y norte del
Ecuador (item 690), p. 109-129.
See also Bouchards El formativo final y el desarrollo regional en el litoral pacfico norecuatorial, Gaceta arqueolgica andina, 6:22 (1992), 5-21, in which he argues that
local adaptation to mangrove and other swamps was disrupted circa AD 300 when La
Tolita and associated sites were abandoned (albeit only temporarily).
735. Brainerd, George W. A Cylindrical Stamp from Ecuador, Masterkey, 27:1
(Jan./Feb. 1953), 14-17.
Maintains that a stamp found just south of modern Esmeraldas, with stylized speech
scrolls, is indicative of contact with Mesoamerica.
736. Braun, Robert. Nuevo anlisis del Cerro Narro in: Donald Collier and John V.
Murra, Reconocimientos y excavaciones en el sur del Ecuador (item 782), p. 143-165.
737. Braun, Robert. The Formative as Seen from the Southern Ecuadorian
Highlands, Actas del primer Simposio de Correlaciones Antropolgicas Andinomesoamericanas (item 660), p. 41-99.
738. Bravo Guerreira, Mara Concepcin. Relaciones culturales de los grupos
indgenas de la costa norte peruana y la regin interandina del sur del Ecuador,
Relaciones interculturales en el area ecuatorial del Pacfico durante la poca
precolombina (item 1162), p. 45-55.
739. Bravomalo de Espinosa, Aurelia. Ecuador ancestral. Quito: Artes Grf. Seal,
1992. 280 p.
A descriptive summary of field research results by period, region, and cultural complex.
A comprehensive, balanced survey. Well illustrated.
740. Bray, Tamara L. Archaeological Survey in Northern Highland Ecuador: Inca
Imperialism and the Pas Caranqui, World Archaeology, 24:2 (Oct. 1992), 218-233.
Utilizes field data to examine the processes of Inca imperialism in the northern
highlands. The relative absence of trade goods in Inca period sites implies that the
Incas may have sought to transform the local organization of production by stressing
conformity with the imperial model inasmuch as the economic organization of the Pas
Caranqui before its occupation by the Incas emphasized long-distance exchange as
one of the primary means of obtaining desired extra-local goods. Also published in
Spanish as: Los Incas en el norte del Ecuador: estrategias de incorporacin y control
en la frontera imperial, Memoria, MARKA, 3 (1993), 167-187.
741. Brothwell, Don; and Richard Burleigh. The Human Cranium from Punin,
Ecuador: With Particular Reference to Morphology and Dating, Journal of
Archaeological Science, 7:1 (Mar. 1980), 97-99.
742. Brothwell, Don; and Richard Burleigh. On Sinking Otavalo Man, Journal of
Archaeological Science, 4:3 (Sept. 1977), 291-294.
Ecuador has its Piltdown Man too. But Punin Man is not a fake and may in fact be quite
old, at least for the Americas.
743. Bruhns, Karen Olsen. Intercambio entre la costa y la sierra en el formativo
tardo: nuevas evidencias del Azuay, Relaciones interculturales en el rea ecuatorial
del Pacfico durante la poca precolombina (item 1162), p. 57-74.
Drawing on her field work at Pirincay, Bruhns demonstrates that trade in luxury items
and the raw materials for the production of those items between the coast, the
highlands, and the Upper Amazon Basin was an integral part of the local economy by
the Late Formative.
744. Bruhns, Karen Olsen. Prehispanic Weaving and Spinning Implements from
Southern Ecuador, Textile Museum Journal, 27-28 (1988-1989), 70-77.
745. Bruhns, Karen Olsen. Los talleres de cristal de roca de Pirincay, Provincia del
Azuay, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 7 (1987), 91-100.
746. Bruhns, Karen Olsen; and Norman Hammond. A Reply to Damp, Journal of
Field Archaeology, 11:4 (Winter 1984), 428-429.
See item 806.
747. Bruhns, Karen Olsen; and Norman Hammond. A Visit to Valdivia, Journal of
Field Archaeology, 10:4 (Winter 1983), 485-487.
748. Bruhns, Karen Olsen; James H. Burton; and George R. Miller. Excavations at
Pirincay in the Paute Valley of Southern Ecuador, 1985-1988, Antiquity, 64:243 (June
1990), 221-233.
See also item 912.
749. Buchwald, Otto von; and Jacinto Jijn y Caamao. Notas acerca de la
arqueologa del Guayas, Boletn de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos
Americanos, 1:3 (oct./nov. 1918), 237-252.
750. Buitrn, Anbal. Reconocimiento arqueolgico del alto Ecuador austral, Boletn
Reports on field reconnaissance of Chimborazo, Caar, Azuay, and Loja, and site
excavations in Caar. Also published in Spanish as: Reconocimiento y excavaciones
en el Sur del Ecuador, revisin y coordinacin por Juan Cordero I., traduccin del
ingls por Lucas Astudillo L. Cuenca: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador,
1982. 165 p.
783. Coln de Carvajal, Anunciada; and Joaqun Meco. Anlisis de los materiales
metacolgicos de La Propicia, Esmeraldas, Actes du XLIIe Congrs international des
amricanistes: Paris, 1976, vol. 9a (Paris: Socit international des amricanistes,
1979), p. 351-360.
784. Congreso Ecuatoriano de Arqueologa (1: 1976: Ibarra, Ecuador) Memoria del
primer Congreso Ecuatoriano de Arqueologa: reunido en Ibarra, Ecuador, del 20 al 24
de septiembre de 1976. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1979. 268 p.
785. Corbett, John Maxwell. Some Unusual Ceramics from Esmeraldas, Ecuador,
American Antiquity, 19:2 (Oct. 1953), 145-152.
786. Cordero Iiguez, Juan. Las culturas originales y el incario: captulo de una
interpretacin social del arte ecuatoriano, Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y
Geogrficos de Cuenca, 48 (1983), 193-246.
787. Cordero Iiguez, Juan. Ingapirca y Tomebamba: gua de los complejos
arqueolgicos y museos = Arqueological [sic] Sites and Museums Guide = Guide des
sites archologiques et museums. Cuenca: Monsalve Moreno Ca. Ltda., [1993]. 69 p.
In Spanish, English, and French. Versin ampliada de Caaris e Incas. Cuenca:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1987. 30 p. See also: Cordero Iiguez, Juan; and Antonio
Fresco Gonzlez. Nueva imagen de Ingapirca. Cuenca: Banco Central del Ecuador,
1995. 95 p.
788. Cordero Palacios, Octavio. El Azuay histrico: los Caaris y los Inco-Caaris.
Cuenca: Edit. Amazonas, 1981. 146 p.
Reprint; originally published: Cuenca, 1926. See also following item.
789. Cordero Palacios, Octavio. El quechua y el caari: contribucin para la historia
precuencana de las provincias azuayas. Cuenca: Concejo Municipal, 1924. xvi, vi, 335
p.
790. Crdova Jaramillo, Diana E. Petroglifos, Memoria del primer Congreso
Ecuatoriano de Arqueologa (item 784), p. 124-128.
791. Crespo Toral, Hernn, Nacimiento y evolucin de la botella silbato, Humanitas
(Quito), 6:1 (1966), 66-87.
792. Crespo Toral, Hernn, Queros ecuatorianos, Humanitas (Quito), 7:1 (19691970), 7-34.
793. Cueva Jaramillo, Juan. El arte de la metalurgia en el Ecuador prehispnico,
Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 2 (1970) 217-231.
794. Cueva Jaramillo, Juan. Descubrimientos arqueolgicos en Ingapirca, Revista
Reports on the first archaeological work done on La Plata (1892). Dorsey found an
Inca burial. The associated pottery are in the Field Museum of Natural History and
have been restudied by Colin McEwan and Mara Isabel Silva (see item 1038).
Reprinted: New York: Kraus, 1968.
816. Dorsinfang-Smets, A. Cramique de la province dEsmraldas, Muses royaux
dart et dhistoire (Brussels), ser. 4, 21:1(jan. 1949), 87-90.
817. Drake, Robert J. Some Marine Shells Used by Prehistoric Indians in Ecuador,
Nautilus, 65:4 (Apr. 1952), 120-122.
818. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. Area septentrional andina oeste, formas de
produccin concretas en la cultura Valdivia: el control racionalizado del manglar,
Antropologa ecuatoriana, 2/3 (1983-1984), 7-22.
819. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. Contribucin al conocimiento arqueolgico de la
Provincia de Pichincha: sitios Chilibulo y Chillogallo, Estudios arqueolgicos: Antillas y
tierras bajas de Sudamrica, Ecuador (item 853), p. 181-225.
820. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. Figurinas prehistricas de la Provincia de
Pichincha, Revista de la Universidad Catlica (Quito), 3:10 (1975), 171-188.
821. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. Glosario arqueolgico. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo
de Antropologa, 1981. 343 p. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 1)
822. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. Investigaciones arqueolgicas en Tazones
(Atacames, Esmeraldas), Segundo Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y
Social del Ecuador (item 574), vol. 1, p. 617-628.
A working paper on results of field work at the Cueva del Duende and adjacent sites.
The collected materials, mostly ceramic, pertain to the Jama-Coaque phase (500 B.C.500 D.C.).
823. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. Localizaciones culturales del rea norandina del
Ecuador, Cultura, 7:21 (ene./abr. 1985), 83-94.
824. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. Los primeros poblados, Nueva historia del Ecuador
(item 615), vol. 1, p. 181-222.
A good review of the state of archaeological knowledge circa 1980 regarding the
emergence of such early towns as Cotocollao in the northern highlands and of Tolita,
Baha, and Coaque on the coast.
825. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. La vivienda prehispnica en los Andes
septentrionales del Ecuador, Sarance, 14 (ago. 1990), 41-71.
826. Ecuador al rescate de su pasado = Ecuador regains its past. Quito: Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores del Ecuador: Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador;
Washington, D.C.: Organizacin de los Estados Americanos, 1984. [52] p.
In Spanish and English. Regarding the recovery in 1983 of 9,263 artifacts from an
Italian collector. Includes an outline of the prehispanic period and representative
examples of the pieces that had been illegally exported.
838. Estrada, Emilio. Arqueologa de Manab central. Guayaquil: Museo Vctor Emilio
Estrada, 1962. 205 p.
Items 838-847 are the work of an amateur turned professional. They are based on
considerable field work and more or less sound laboratory analysis.
839. Estrada, Emilio. Cronologa de la Cuenca del Guayas, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 7:19/21 (dic. 1957), 232-235.
Also published in: Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 37:89 (ene./jun. 1957),
84-89.
840. Estrada, Emilio. Las culturas pre-clsicas, formativas o arcaicas del Ecuador.
Guayaquil: Museo Vctor Emilio Estrada, 1958. 113 p.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1975.
841. Estrada, Emilio. Ensayo preliminar sobre arqueologa del Milagro. Guayaquil:
Museo Vctor Emilio Estrada, 1954. 111 p.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1979
842. Estrada, Emilio. Los Huancavilcas: ltimas civilizaciones pre-histricas de la
costa del Guayas. Guayaquil: Museo Vctor Emilio Estrada, 1957. 82 p.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1979.
843. Estrada, Emilio. The Jambel Culture of South Coastal Ecuador. Washington,
D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1964. 75 p.
844. Estrada, Emilio. Nuevos elementos en la cultura Valdivia: sus posibles contactos
transpacficos. Quito: Sub-Comit Ecuatoriano de Antropologa, Instituto
Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1961. 14 p.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1979.
845. Estrada, Emilio. Prehistoria de Manab. Guayaquil: Museo Vctor Emilio Estrada,
1957. 176 p.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1979.
846. Estrada, Emilio. Ultimas civilizaciones prehistricas de la Cuenca del Ro
Guayas. Guayaquil: Museo Vctor Emilio Estrada, 1957. 87 p.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1979.
847. Estrada, Emilio. Valdivia: un sitio arqueolgico formativo en la costa de la
Provincia del Guayas, Ecuador. Guayaquil: Museo Vctor Emilio Estrada, 1956. 11 p.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1979.
848. Estrada, Emilio; and Clifford Evans. Cultural development in Ecuador,
Aboriginal Cultural Development in Latin America: an Interpretative Review, edited by
Betty J. Meggers and Clifford Evans (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1963),
p. 77-88.
883. Gmez de la Torre Barba, Joaqun. Historia y tradiciones del Padre Anello Oliva
S.J.: la leyenda de Quitumbe, personaje mtico de nuestra prehistoria, Quitumbe, 3:3
(1973 ), 133-143.
884. Gondard, Pierre. Inventario y organizacin del espacio precolombino en los
Andes septentrionales del Ecuador, Arqueologa y etnohistoria del sur de Colombia y
norte del Ecuador (item 690), p. 171-187.
885. Gondard, Pierre; and Freddy Lpez. Inventario arqueolgico preliminar de los
Andes septentrionales del Ecuador. Quito: Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador,
1983. 274 p.
886. Gonzlez C., Celiano E. Estudios arqueolgicos en el Cantn Zaruma, Boletn
de informaciones cientficas nacionales, 6:56 (ago./sept. 1953), 187-198; 6:57
(oct./nov. 1953), 303-313.
Reports on investigation of stone ruins at Cerro de Tocto.
887. Gonzlez C., Celiano E. Petroglifos de la Provincia de El Oro: ensayo de estudio
y comprensin. Ambato: Edit. Po XII, 1982. 107 p.
888. Gonzlez C., Celiano E. Reconocimientos arqueolgicos en el Cantn Zaruma,
Humanitas, 6:1 (1966), 105-121.
An interim report on authors field work.
889. Gonzlez de Merino, Juana. Culturas del formativo temprano en el Ecuador:
nuevos elementos y su difusin a otras reas, Humanitas, 6:1 (1966), 122-129.
890. Gonzlez de Merino, Juana. Investigacin cientfica de arqueologa en el sitio
Milagro 1, Cantn Milagro, Provincia del Guayas. Guayaquil: Universidad de
Guayaquil, Facultad de Filosofa, Letras y Ciencias de la Educacin, 1984. 105 p.
891. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. La comunidad gentilicia y los rasgos de su
descomposicin en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del
Guayas, 1979. 108 p.
An essay on regional development cultures of Baha, Jama-Coaque, and Tolita. See
also item 585.
892. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. La sociedad nmada y su transicin a la sedentaria en el
Ecuador. Guayaquil: [s.n.], 1983. 53 p.
An essay on the emergence of agriculturally based groups on the coast.
893. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Los aborgenes de Imbabura y del Carchi:
investigaciones arqueolgicas sobre los antiguos pobladores de las Provincias del
Carchi y de Imbabura en la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Tip. y Encuad. Salesiana,
1908. xiv, 145 p. + 1 atlas (41 plates).
894. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Advertencias para buscar, coleccionar y clasificar
objetos arqueolgicos pertenecientes a los indgenas antiquos pobladores del territorio
ecuatoriano. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1914. xiv, 90 p.
895. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Estudio histrico sobre los Caaris: pobladores de la
antigua Provincia del Azuay. Cuenca: Universidad del Azuay, 1965. 135 p.
Reprint; originally published in 100 copies: Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1878. viii, 55 p. Also
reprints Carlos Manuel Larreas Introduccin to the 1922 Centro de Estudios
Histricos y Geogrficos edition (p. 11-47). The pioneering study of the archaeology of
the Caaris and the first publication by an Ecuadorian national on the prehistory of
Ecuador except of course for Juan de Velascos Historia del Reino de Quito (Quito,
1841-1844; 3 v.). Based on excursions to sites and library research. Notwithstanding
the adulation accorded the archbishop-historian by Larrea and other national
scholars,Our understanding of Ingapiraca was not made any clearer by . . . Gonzlez
Surez . . . who seems to have changed his mind regarding the sites nature and
purpose every time he visited it according to Barnes and Fleming (item 699).
896. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Notas arqueolgicas, y, Prehistoria ecuatoriana.
Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1967. 306 p.
Reprint; originally published as separate monographs: Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1915 (vi,
212 p.); Quito: Ricardo Jaramillo, 1904 (vi, 88 p.) Also reprinted as: De prehistoria y de
arqueologa. Cuenca: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Cuenca, 1968. 207 p. In
Notas arqueolgicas the archbishop-historian glosses and critiques Verneau and
Rivets Ethnographie ancienne de lEquateur (item 1282).
897. Grijalva, Carlos Emilio. La expedicin de Uhle a Guasmal, o sea, La protohistoria
de Imbabura y Carchi. Quito: Edit. Chimborazo, 1937. 294 p.
898. Grijalva, Carlos Emilio. Nombres y pueblos de la antigua Provincia de
Imbabura, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 2:3/4 (ene./abr. 1921), 33-70.
899. Grove, David C. The Meso-American Formative and South America, Actas del
primer Simposio de Correlaciones Antropolgicas Andino-mesoamericanas (item 660),
p. 279-297.
900. Guevara, Daro. Exgesis de topnimos indgenas ecuatorianos, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 57:124 (jul./dic. 1974), 274-298.
901. Guffroy, Jean. Les dbuts de la sdentarisation et de lagriculture dans les
Andes mridionales de lEquateur, LAnthropologie, 91:4 (1987), 873-888.
902. Guffroy, Jean. Implantaciones humanas y ocupacin del espacio en la Provincia
de Loja durante la poca prehispnica, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 579-591.
903. Guffroy, Jean. Inhumaciones tardias en la regin de Macar, Cultura, 5:15
(ene./abr. 1983), 99-108.
Originally published as: Inhumations tardives dans la rgion de Macar Bulletin de
lInstitut franais dtudes andines, 11:3/4 (jui./dc. 1982), 39-49.
904. Guffroy, Jean. Investigaciones arqueolgicas en el sur de la Provincia de Loja.
Loja: Misin Arqueolgica Loja, [1981]. 50 p.
Reports preliminary results of the French archaeological survey of southern Loja. For
more detailed results see items 901-903, 905, 906, and especially 1013.
905. Guffroy, Jean. El poblamiento de la Provincia de Loja durante el perodo
formativo: datos e hiptesis, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr. 1983), 59-63.
906. Guffroy, Jean. Las tradiciones culturales formativas del Valle de Catamayo,
Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr. 1983), 65-72.
Originally published as: Les traditions culturelles formatives de la valle de Catamayo,
Bulletin de lInstitut franais dtudes andines, 11:3/4 (jui./dc. 1982), 3-11.
907. Guignabaudet, Philippe. Nuevos descubrimientos arqueolgicos en las tolas de
Huaraqu, Boletn de informaciones cientficas nacionales, 6:56 (ago./sept. 1953), 168186.
908. Guinea Bueno, Mercedes. El formativo de la regin Sur de Esmeraldas: visto
desde el yacimiento del Chvele, Arqueologa y etnohistoria del sur de Colombia y
norte del Ecuador (item 690), p. 19-46.
See also: Guinea Buenos El desarrollo espacial del poblado de Atacames,
Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Revista espaola de antropologa americana, 24 (1994), 93111, in which she traces the development of prehispanic Atacames from a small,
dispersed hamlet to a large town during the Integration period; and her: Subsistencia,
ecologa y explotacin territorial en el poblado de Atacames, Ecuador, Revista
espaola de antropologa americana, 12 (1982), 131-155.
909. Guinea Bueno, Mercedes. Patrones de asentamiento en la arqueologa de
Esmeraldas (Ecuador) Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Direccin General de
Relaciones Culturales, 1984. 243 p. (Memorias de la Misin Arqueolgica Espaola
en el Ecuador; 8)
A detailed report on settlement patterns in what is now the Province of Esmeraldas.
The majority, if not in fact all, of prehispanic towns and villages were found along rivers
and the shoreline. Also examines the issues of population density and therefore size
and the economic bases of the settlements studied.
910. Guinea Bueno, Mercedes. Relaciones comerciales en Esmeraldas como
resultado del anlisis de las cermicas por difraccin de rayos X y microscopia
electrnica, Actes du XLIIe Congrs international des amricanistes: Paris, 1976, vol.
9a (Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1979), p. 259-272.
911. Guinea Bueno, Mercedes. Valoracin de las evidencias de intercambio en la
desembocadura del Ro Esmeraldas: el problema cronolgico, Relaciones
interculturales en el rea ecuatorial del Pacfico durante la poca precolombina (item
1162), p. 127-146.
Maps and discusses the probable dating of various archaeological sites in the vicinity of
the mouth of the Esmeraldas.
912. Hammond, Norman; and Karen Olsen Bruhns. The Paute Valley Project in
Ecuador, 1984, Antiquity, 61:1 (Mar. 1987), 50-56.
See also item 748.
1920), 4-40.
978. Jijn y Caamao, Jacinto; and Carlos Manuel Larrea. Un cementerio incasico en
Quito y notas acerca de los Incas en el Ecuador. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad
Central, 1918. 102 p.
Reprinted from: Revista de la Sociedad Jurdico-Literaria, nueva ser., 20:58/59
(mar./abr. 1918), 159-260.
979. Kaddatz, Corinna. Kleidung und Schmuck im vorkolumbischen Esmeraldas.
Bremen: Im Selbstverlang des Museums in Zusammenarbeit mit BAS, 1975. xi, 107 p.
980. Klepinger, Linda L. Paleodemography of the Valdivia III Phase at Real Alto,
Ecuador, American Antiquity, 44:2 (Apr. 1979), 305-309.
981. Knapp, Gregory W. Ecologa cultural prehispnica del Ecuador. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1988. 206 p.
Based on authors doctoral dissertation (item 984). See also item 7689.
982. Knapp, Gregory W. El nicho ecolgico llanura hmeda, en la economa
prehistrica de los Andes de altura, Sarance, 9 (1981), 83-96.
983. Knapp, Gregory W. Riego precolonial en la sierra norte, Ecuador debate, 14
(1987), 17-45.
984. Knapp, Gregory W. Soil, Slope, and Water in the Equatorial Andes: A Study in
Prehistoric Agricultural Adaptation. 1984. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin at
Madison. xvii, 377 leaves.
985. Knapp, Gregory W.; and David A. Preston. Evidence of Prehistoric Ditched
Fields on Sloping Land in Northern Highland Ecuador, Prehispanic Agricultural Fields
in the Central Andes, (item 1139), vol. 2, p. 403-424.
986. Knapp, Gregory W.; and Roy Ryder. Aspects of the Origin, Morphology, and
Function of Ridged Fields in the Quito Altiplano, Ecuador, Drained Field Agriculture in
Central and South America, edited by J.P. Darch (Oxford: B.A.R., 1983), p. 201-220.
Also published in Spanish as: Aspectos del origen, morfologa y funcin de los
camellones en el altiplano de Quito, Cultura, 8:23 (sept./dic. 1985), 205-222.
987. Landzuri N., Cristbal. Los curacazgos pastos prehispnicos: agricultura y
comercio. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de
Antropologa; Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995. 229 p. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 13)
An exceptionally detailed, well researched, and properly documented study of the
economics of Pastos chiefdoms in what is now northern Ecuador. Based on several
years of archival research in Ecuador, Colombia, and Spain. See also item 6177.
988. Landvar, Manuel Agustn. El sitio arqueolgico de Todos Santos, Revista de
antropologa (Cuenca), 8 (ene. 1984), 138-152.
989. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. La cultura incsica del Ecuador: notas histricas y
cronolgicas. Mxico, D.F.: Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1965. 41
256 p.
Drawing on many years of field work by himself, his spouse, and students as well as by
others, Lathrap delineates the prehistory of the Upper Amazon Basin as divided
between and disputed by Ecuador and Peru. Argues that the origins of Tropical Forest
Culture were continental rather than Coastal and that Tropical Forest Culture had
reached a reasonably high state of efficiency by 3000 B.C. and that therefore Valdivia
represents a branch of Tropical Forest Culture which was rather early extruded from the
Amazon Basin and which settled in a locality that offered easily worked agricultural
lands and, secondarily, fairly rich marine resources to make up the protein deficiency-a thesis that he maintains and develops more fully in Ancient Ecuador (item 996).
998. Lathrap, Donald W.; Jorge G. Marcos; and James A. Zeidler. Real Alto: an
Ancient Ceremonial Center, Archaeology, 30:1 (Jan. 1977), 2-13.
999. Le Gouhir Rodas, Jos Mara. Estudios de prehistoria ecuatoriana, Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de Historia, 18:54 (jul./dic. 1939), 38-58; 19:55 (ene./jun. 1940),
68-102.
Reviews limited fieldwork that had been done as of the 1930s and stresses the
importance of colonial period accounts, especially the sixteenth-century chronicles, as
sources in part one and defends Juan de Velascos thesis regarding the millenarian
Kingdom of Quito in part two.
1000. Le Gouhir Rodas, Jos Mara. Tesis de prehistoria ecuatoriana, Revista del
Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 9 (dic. 1923), 436-452; 10
(ago. 1924), 1-20.
1001. Lecoq, Patrice. El perodo del desarrollo regional en el sur de la Provincia de
Loja, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr. 1983), 73-88.
Originally published as: La priode de dveloppement regional dans le Sud de la
province de Loja, Bulletin de lInstitut franais dtudes andines, 11:3/4 (jui./dc. 1982),
13-27.
1002. Ledergerber C., Paulina. Comparacin entre la cermica bruida Guangala
(del Ecuador) y Nasca (del Per), Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia,
62:133/134 (ene./dic. 1979), 291-360.
1003. Ledergerber C., Paulina. El origen de un cuarto de siglo de investigaciones
sobre la cultura Valdivia, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 65:139/140
(ene./dic 1982), 25-44.
Reviews the history of excavations of Valdivia sites. Includes an excellent bibliography.
1004. Len, Luis A. La mujer indgena en la rgimen laboral incsico y colonial del
Reino y de la Real Audiencia de Quito, Amrica indgena, 35:3 (jul./set. 1975), 539556.
1005. Len Borja, Dora. Prehistoria de la costa ecuatoriana, Anuario de estudios
americanos, 21 (1964), 381-436.
At the time of its publication an important synthesis of what was known and could be
surmised regarding the ethnic groups of the coast. Also published in: Anales de la
Universidad de Cuenca, 22:1 (ene./marzo 1966), 33-84.
1006. El Levantamiento tectnico y el formativo temprano en los Andes
septentrionales, Jonathan Damp [et al.], Gaceta arqueolgica andina, 17 (1990), 9-16.
Maintains that Real Alto when occupied was adjacent to the shore and that therefore
early Valdivia culture was marine oriented. See also item 1090.
1007. Lippi, Ronald D. Arqueologa de los Yumbos, Arqueologa y etnohistoria del
sur de Colombia y norte del Ecuador (item 690), p. 189-207.
1008. Lippi, Ronald D. La arqueologa de los Yumbos: resultados de prospecciones
en el Pichincha occidental, Etnohistoria e historia de las Amrica (Bogot: Ediciones
Uniandes, 1988), p. 77-88.
Items 1007 and 1008 are important statements as to the emerging prehistory of the
Yumbos in Western Pichincha. Based on field work conducted in 1984 and 1985, they
join the results of archaeology to the ethnohistorical work of Frank Salomon on the
Yumbos (e.g., item 1191).
1009. Lippi, Ronald D. Paleotopography and Phosphate Analysis of a Buried Jungle
Site in Ecuador, Journal of Field Archaeology, 15:1 (Spring 1988), 85-97.
The site is that of Nambillo in the Province of Pichincha.
1010. Lippi, Ronald D. La Ponga and the Machalilla Phase of Coastal Ecuador. 1983.
534 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin, Madison.
1011. Lippi, Ronald D.; and Marco Surez Capello. Sondeos pedolgicos en
Nambillo: un mtodo de prospeccin subterrnea, Miscelnea antropolgica
ecuatoriana, 5:5 (1985), 7-34.
Nambillo is a Formative period site (Cotocallao Phase) in the Parish of Mindo, Province
of Pichincha.
1012. Lippi, Ronald D.; Robert Mck. Bird; and David M. Stemper. Maz primitivo
encontrado en La Ponga, en un contexto Machalilla, Miscelnea antropolgica
ecuatoriana, 3:3 (1983), 143-154.
Concludes that two primitive varieties [of cultivated maize] were present on the coast of
Ecuador by 1200 B.C. See also items 1023 and 1114. Also published in English as
Maize Recovered at La Ponga, an Early Ecuadorian Site, American Antiquity, 49:1
(Jan. 1994), 118-124.
1013. Loja prehispanique: recherches archologiques dans les Andes meridionales de
lEquateur, par J. Guffroy [et al.]. Paris: Editions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1987.
342 p. (Travaux de lInstitut franais dtudes andines; 32)
Reports research conducted between 1979 and 1982 by members of the Institut
franais dtudes andines and the Mission archeologique franaise de Loja, especially
at the Vega Site.
1014. Loor, Wilfrido. Caras y shiris, Gaceta municipal (Quito), 19:79 (oct./dic. 1934),
191-206.
1015. Loor, Wilfrido. Los indios de Manab. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1937. 155 p.
Based entirely on published materials. Accepts Max Uhles thesis that the migrant
Mayas were responsible for the emergence of high cultures on the coast and Velascos
Kingdom of Quito. Anachronistic in light of subsequent, mostly professional work.
Republished in Loors Manab, prehistoria y conquista (item 6000).
1016. Lpez y Sebastin, Lornezo Eladio. Contribucin al estudio de las culturas
formativas en la costa norte del Ecuador, Arqueologa y etnohistoria del sur de
Colombia y norte del Ecuador (item 690), p. 47-60.
1017. Lpez y Sebastin, Lorenzo Eladio; and Chantal Caillavet. La fase Tachina en
el contexto cultural del horizonte Chorrera, Actes du XLIIe Congrs international des
amricanistes: Paris, 1976, vol. 9a (Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1979), p. 199215.
1018. Lozano Castro, Alfredo. Cuenca, ciudad prehispana: significado y forma, 1 ed.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala: Ciudad; Madrid: Centro de Investigacin Urbana y
Arquitectura Andina, 1991. 227 p.
Apparently a scholarly sound study of Inca Cuenca or Tomebamba. Of the pre-existing
Caari settlement, only the name is known, Guapdondelic.
1019. Lubinsky, Earl H. Los cementerios de Anllulla: informe preliminar sobre una
excavacin arqueolgica, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 57:123
(ene./jun. 1974), 16-23.
1020. Lynch, Thomas F. Chobshi Cave in Retrospect, Andean Past, 2 (1989), 1-32.
Concludes that the Chobshi Cave, a lithic industry site, represents an early stage in the
diversification process or Archaic transition that followed the Paleo-Indian horizon. The
results of the radiocarbon carbon tests, ranging from 8060 to 5585 B.C., agree with the
point types recovered, although the occupation may have been . . . longer . . .
1021. Lynch, Thomas F.; and Susan Pollock. La arqueologa de la Cueva Negra de
Chobshi, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 1:1 (1981), 92-119.
1022. Lyon, Patricia J. Early Formative Period of Coastal Ecuador: Where Is the
Evidence?, awpa Pacha, 10/12 (1972-1974), 33-48.
1023. Maize Recovered at La Ponga, an Early Ecuadorian Site, Ronald D. Lippi [et
al.], American Antiquity, 49:1 (Jan. 1984), 118-124.
1024. Marcos, Jorge G. The Ceremonial Precinct at Real Alto: Organization of Time
and Space in Valdivia Society. 1978. iv, 554 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1025. Marcos, Jorge G. Cruising to Acapulco and Back with the Thorny Oyster Set: A
Model for a Lineal Exchange System, Journal of the Steward Anthropological Society,
9:1/2 (Fall 1977/Spring 1978), 99-132.
Also published in Spanish as: De ida y vuelta a Acapulco con mercaderes de mullu,
1045. Meggers, Betty J.; and Clifford Evans. Formative Period Cultures in the Guayas
Basin, Coastal Ecuador, American Antiquity, 22:1 (Jan. 1957), 235-247.
1046. Meggers, Betty J.; and Clifford Evans. Machalilla Culture: An Early Formative
Period Complex on the Ecuadorian Coast, American Antiquity, 28:4 (Oct. 1962), 186192.
See also the response by Donald W. Lathrap in ibid., 29:4 (Oct. 1963), 239-241.
1047. Meggers, Betty J.; Clifford Evans; and Emilio Estrada. Early Formative Period of
Coastal Ecuador: The Valdivia and Machalilla Phases. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian
Institution, 1965. xix, 234 p. + 196 p. of plates.
A comprehensive account of Estrada, Evans, and Meggerss major contributions to the
study of the Formative period on the coast.
1048. Meja, Leonardo. La economa de la sociedad primitiva ecuatoriana, Ecuador
pasado y presente (item 572), p. 11-60.
1049. Mester, Ann M. Un taller manteo de la concha madre perla del sitio Los
Frailes, Manab, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 5:5 (1985), 101-111.
See also Mesters doctoral dissertation: The Pearl Divers of Los Frailes: Archaeological
and Ethnohistorical Explorations of Sumptuary Good Trade and Cosmology in the North
and Central Andes. 1990. xxiii, 558 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
1050. Meyers, Albert. Die Inka in Ekuador. Bonn: Universitt Bonn, Seminar fr
Vlkerkunde, 1976. 186 p.
A doctoral dissertation on Inca influences in what would become Ecuador.
1051. Meyers, Thomas P. Evidence of Prehistoric Irrigation in Northern Ecuador,
Journal of Field Archaeology, 1:3/4 (1974), 309-313.
1052. Meyers, Thomas P. Formative Period Occupations in the Highlands of Northern
Ecuador, American Antiquity, 41:3 (July 1976), 353-360.
See also the exchanges between Betty J. Meggers, Clifford Evans, and Meyers in ibid.,
42:2 (Apr. 1977), 266, and between J. Stephen Athens and Meyers in ibid., 43:3 (July
1978), 493-500.
1053. Meyers, Thomas P. Formative Period Occupations in the Highlands of Northern
Ecuador: Rejoinder to Athens, American Antiquity, 43:3 (July 1978), 497-500.
1054. Meyers, Thomas P.; and Van A. Reidhead. Site Stratification in a Lacustrine
Environment: Evidence from Highland Ecuador, Proceedings of the Indiana Academy
of Science, 83 (1974), 65-73.
1055. Miller, George R.; and Anne L. Gill. Zooarchaeology at Pirincay: A Formative
Period Site in Highland Ecuador, Journal of Field Archaeology, 17:1 (Spring, 1990), 4968.
1056. Mio Grijalva, Manuel. Algunos problemas arqueolgicos en la sierra norte del
1069. Muse, Michael C. Products and Politics of a Milagro Entrepot: Pen del Ro,
Guayas Basin, Ecuador, Research in Economic Anthropology, 13 (1991), 269-323.
1070. Naranjo, Plutarco. Chamanaismo y poder en las culturas primitivas del
Ecuador, Rituales y fiestas de las Amricas (Bogot: Ediciones Uniandes, 1988), p.
269-277.
Reconstructs the history of the role of shamans, beginning with their apparent
preeminence during the Formative period, through subordination to chiefs and priests
on the eve of the Spanish conquest. Based on analysis of ceramic artifacts.
1071. Naranjo, Plutarco. Plantas alimenticias del Ecuador precolombino, Miscelnea
antropolgica ecuatoriana, 4:4 (1984), 63-82.
1072. Navegacin precolombina: el caso del litoral, Jos Alcina Franch [et al.],
Revista espaola de antropologa americana, 17 (1987), 35-73.
1073. Neira, Ignacio. Algo sobre la cultura caari, Memoria del primer Congreso
Ecuatoriano de Arqueologa (item 784), p. 80-84.
1074. Netherly, Patricia J. Wandering Shellfish: New Insights into Intra-Regional
Distribution Networks from Southeastern Coastal Ecuador, Perspectives on Andean
Prehistory and Protohistory: Papers from the Third Annual Northeast Conference on
Andean Archaeology and Ethnohistory, edited by Daniel H. Sandweiss and D. Peter
Kvietok (Ithaca, N.Y.: Latin American Studies Institute, Cornell University, 1986), p. 917.
Preliminary report on the salvage program of survey and sample excavations
undertaken within the impact rea of the Tahuin Dam (i.e., the middle Arenillas Valley,
El Oro) during the late 1970s.
1075. Nicholson, H.B. On a Supposed Mesoamerican Thin Orange Vessel from
Ecuador, American Antiquity, 19:2 (Oct. 1953), 164-166.
1076. Nojovich Ch., Hctor Omar. Nota crtica sobre Native Lords of Quito in the
Age of the Incas de Frank Salomon, Histrica (Lima), 15:2 (1991), 343-362.
Attempts to apply Inca or Peruvian/Bolivian models to Ecuador. For Salomons
response see: ibid., 359-362.
1077. Norton, Presley. Preliminary Observations on Loma Alta: An Early Valdivia
Midden in Guayas Province, Ecuador, Actas del primer Simposio de Correlaciones
Antropolgicas Andino-mesoamericanas (item 660), p. 101-119.
1078. Norton, Presley. El seoro de Salangone y la liga de mercaderes,
Arqueologa y etnohistoria del sur de Colombia y norte del Ecuador (item 690), p. 131143.
1079. Norton, Presley; Richard Lunnis; and Nigel Nayling. Excavaciones en Salango,
Provincia de Manab, Ecuador, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 3:3 (1983), 972.
1081. Nyberg, John Leroy. An Examination of Vessel Flutes from Pre-Hispanic
1118. Prez T., Aquiles R. Los Chimbus: Provincia de Bolvar. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1982. 164 p.
1119. Prez T., Aquiles R. El complejo prehistrico de Cangahua, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 79:133/134 (ene./dic. 1979), 33-46.
1120. Prez T., Aquiles R. Contribucin al conocimiento de la prehistoria de los
pueblos del norte del territorio de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Instituto
Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y Geografa, 1958. p. 243-406. (Llacta; ao 3, vol. 5-6)
Archaeological, historical and linguistic study of the prehispanic peoples of the Province
of Carchi.
Published together with Piedad Peaherrera de Costales and Alfredo Costales
Samaniegos Yunga an (item 6225)
1121. Prez T., Aquiles R. Contribucin al mejor conocimiento de los Caaris,
Llacta, 2:3 (1957), 45-67.
1122. Prez T., Aquiles R. La minscula nacin de Nasacota Puento resiste la
invasin de la gigantesca de Huaina Capac. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1978. 20 p.
1123. Prez T., Aquiles R. Los Paltas: Provincia de Loja. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1984. 254 p.
1124. Prez T., Aquiles R. Los Puruhuayes. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1969-1970. 2 v.
A historical and linguistic study of ethnic groups in what is now the Province of
Chimborazo. Not all of the groups in question were Puruhuay as Prez T. convincingly
demonstrates. Whether the Caari and Jbaro languages had as much an impact on
the Puruhuay language, for whatever reason(s), as he argues is another matter. Highly
critical of the linguistic contributions of Jacinto Jijn y Caamao and Luis Telmo Paz y
Mio, probably rightly so, not that Prez T.s studies are necessarily any sounder.
1125. Prez T., Aquiles R. Quitus y Caras. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Antropologa y Geografa, 1960. 2 v. (Llacta; nos 9-10)
1126. Prez T., Aquiles R. Los Seudo-Pantsaleos. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Antropologa y Geografa, 1962. 264 p. (Llacta; no 14)
A linguistic, historical, and archaeological study of the prehistory of the Provinces of
Cotopaxi and Tungurahua. Prez argues that the Pantsaleos are an invention of
Jacinto Jijn y Caamao, Jos Mara Coba Robalino, Father Juan de Velasco, and
Velascos sycophants, and that the original inhabitants of the Provinces of Imbabura,
Pichincha, Cotopaxi, and Tungurahua were Cayapas or Quitus and that subsequently
they were absorbed by the Colorados or Caras, who were more civilized.
1127. Pino, Ins del. Tipologas arquitectnicas precolombinas en el Ecuador. Quito:
Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1981. 124 p.
1128. Piperno, Dolores R. Primer informe sobre los fitolitos de las plantas del OGSE-
1221. Stahl, Peter W. Hallucinatory Imagery and the Origin of Early South American
Figurine Art, World Archaeology, 18:1 (June 1986), 134-150.
Utilizes knowledge of contemporary practices of shamans to intepret figurines of the
early Formative period from the coast of Ecuador.
1222. Stahl, Peter W. On Climate and Occupation of the Santa Elena Peninsula:
Implications of Documents for Andean Prehistory, Current Anthropology, 25:3 (June
1984), 351-355.
Includes a commentary by Allison C. Paulsen.
1223. Stahl, Peter W. Tropical Forest Cosmology: the Cultural Context of the Early
Valdivia Occupations at Loma Alta. 1984. 327 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
1224. Stahl, Peter W.; and Presley Norton. Animales domsticos y las implicaciones
del intercambio precolombino desde Salango, Ecuador, Miscelnea antropolgica
ecuatoriana, 4:4 (1984), 83-96.
Presents evidence of domesticated forms of cavy or guinea pigs and possibly
domesticated muscovy duck from a Guangala phase site in southern Manab. Authors
believe that the guinea pigs originated as trade goods from Peru.
Also published in English as: Precolumbian Animal Domesticates from Salango,
Ecuador, American Antiquity, 52:2 (Apr. 1987), 382-391.
1225. Stahl, Peter W.; and James A. Zeidler. Differential Bone-Refuse Accumulation
in Food-Preparation and Traffic Areas on an Early Ecuadorian House Floor, Latin
American Antiquity, 1:2 (June 1990), 150-169.
Based on field work at Real Alto Site, Valdivida Culture.
1226. Staller, John Edward. Late Valdivia Occupation in Southern Coastal El Oro
Province, Ecuador: Excavations at the Early Formative Period (3500-1500 B.C.) Site of
La Emergencia. 1994. xxii, 527 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southern Methodist University.
1227. Stemper, David M. The Persistence of Prehispanic Chiefdoms on the Ro Daule,
Coastal Ecuador = La persistencia de los cacicazgos prehispnicos en el Ro Daule,
costa del Ecuador, Spanish translation by / traduccin al espaol por Juana Camacho.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology; Quito: Ediciones Libri
Mundi Enrique Grosse-Luemern, 1993. 212 p.
In English and Spanish on facing pages. Detailed report of field work along the Daule.
Analysis of ceramic remains from several sites suggest two phases: Silencio from c.
400 BC-250 AD; and Yumes, from c. 400-1600 AD, with chiefdoms emerging toward
the beginning of the second phase. Raised fields, on the other hand, appear to have
been in use by the beginning of the first phase. Stemper attributes their persistence to
religious, economic, and military factors, in that order of importance.
1228. Stigler, Robert Leath, Jr. Negative Painted Pottery in South America. 1954.
181 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University.
1229. Stirling, Matthew Williams. New Culture in Ecuador: Seven Figurines Found at
Tachina, Archaeology, 16:3 (Sept. 1963), 170-175.
1230. Stothert, Karen E. Early Economies of Coastal Ecuador and the Foundation of
Andean Civilization, Andean Past, 3 (1992), 43-54.
Concludes that the foundations of Ecuadorian civilization were not supported by a diet
centered on food from the sea, but maritime trading did play a very salient role in the
evolution of their civilization, and the ancient Ecuadorians became preeminent maritime
sailors late in prehistory.
1231. Stothert, Karen E. The Early Prehistory of the Santa Elena Peninsula, Ecuador:
Continuities between the Preceramic and Ceramic Cultures, Actas del XLI Congreso
Internacional de Americanistas (Mxico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia,
1976), vol. 2, p. 88-98.
1232. Stothert, Karen E. The Lithic Technology of the Santa Elena Peninsula,
Ecuador: A Method for the Analysis of Technologically Simple Stonework. 1974. 340
leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University.
1233. Stothert, Karen E. The Preceramic Las Vegas Culture of Coastal Ecuador,
American Antiquity, 50:3 (July 1985), 613-637.
Summarizes the excavation of the Vega type site (OGSE-80), and treats the analysis
and interpretation of Las Vegas floral and faunal remains, burial and settlement
patterns, paleo-environment, and culture history. Based on five years of field research,
conducted between 1977 and 1982.
1234. Stothert, Karen E. La prehistoria temprana de la Peninsula de Santa Elena,
Ecuador: una interpretacin preliminar, Vnculos, 5:2 (1979), 73-87.
1235. Stothert, Karen E. La prehistoria temprana de la Peninsula de Santa Elena:
Cultura Las Vegas. Guayaquil: Museos del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988. 271 p.
An in-depth study of the oldest known culture in Ecuador (10,800-6,600 B.P.) The
people of Las Vegas were hunters, fishermen, and gatherers.
Includes contributions by Thomas Chase (item 798), Dolores R. Piperno (item 1128),
Douglas H. Ubelaker (see item 1250), and Elizabeth S. Wing (item 1292)
1236. Stothert, Karen E. Review of the Early Preceramic Complexes of the Santa
Elena Peninsula, Ecuador, American Antiquity, 48:1 (Jan. 1983), 122-127.
Maintains that the only securely defined [preceramic] cultural complex from southwest
Ecuador is Las Vegas. In other words, that more in-depth research does not support
the other sites defined by Edward P. Lanning in an apparently unpublished 1967 report
as late Pleistocene and early post-Pleistocene. For a more detailed report of Stotherts
findings see item 1233.
1237. Stothert, Karen E. Un sitio de Guangala temprano en el suroeste del Ecuador.
Guayaquil: Museo Antropolgico, Banco Central del Ecuador, 1993. 112 p. (i.e., p. 399)
Reports on field work conducted in a habitation site adjacent to Valdivia. The ceramics,
burials, and subsistence remains found suggest that social stratification was still
minimal.
Published together with: Douglas H. Ubelaker. Restos humanos esquelticos de
OGSE-MA-172, un sitio Guangala temprano en la costa del Ecuador (item 1251)
1238. Sullivan , Louis R.; and Milo Hellman. El crneo de Punn, Anales de la
Universidad Central, 60:304 (1938), 729-742.
1239. Szszdi, Adm. Las rutas del comercio prehispnico de los metales
Cuadernos prehispnicos, 9/10 (1982/1983), 5-131.
An ethnohistorical study of prehispanic trade in precious metals, gem stones, and other
valuable commodities such as spondylus between western South America and the
Antilles.
1240. Szszdi, Adm; and Dora Len Borja. Atavo, joyas y adornos de los pueblos
balseros: estudio etnohistrico, Cuadernos prehispnicos (Valladolid), 8 (1980), 5-52.
1241. Szszdi, Adm; and Dora Len Borja. Localizacin del pueblo aborigen de
Guayaquil, Cuadernos prehispnicos (Valladolid), 3 (1975), 5-18.
1242. Temme, Mathilde. Excavaciones en el sitio precermico de Cubiln (Ecuador),
Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 2:2 (1982), 135-164.
1243. Tolstoy, Paul; and Warren R. DeBoer. An Archaeological Sequence for the
Santiago-Cayapas River Basin: Esmeraldas, Ecuador, Journal of Field Archaeology,
16:3 (Fall, 1989), 295-308.
1244. Turner, Christy G. Dental Caries and Early Ecuadorian Agriculture, American
Antiquity, 43:4 (Oct. 1978), 694-697.
1245. Turolla, Pino. Beyond the Andes: My Search for the Origins of Pre-Inca
Civilization. New York: Harper & Row, 1980. xix, 364 p.
Tales, some tall, of an amateur archaeologist who made several trips to Ecuador
between 1966 and 1972, in search of artifacts and adventure.
1246. Ubelaker, Douglas H. Alteraciones dentales en el Ecuador prehistrico,
Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 6:6 (1986), 89-94.
1247. Ubelaker, Douglas H. The Ayalan Cemetery: A Late Integration Period Burial
Site on the South Coast of Ecuador. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1981.
175 p.
1248. Ubelaker, Douglas H. Drilled Human Teeth from the Coast of Ecuador, Journal
of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 67:2 (June 1977), 83-85.
Also published in Spanish as: Dientes humanos taladrados de la costa ecuatoriana,
Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 6:6 (1986), 95-98.
1249. Ubelaker, Douglas H. Human Skeletal Remains from OGSE-46, La Libertad,
Guayas Province, Ecuador, Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, 78:1
Museos del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988. xxv, 571, [62] p.
1284. Villegas Domnguez, Rodrigo. La cultura de las tolas, Memoria del primer
Congreso Ecuatoriano de Arqueologa (item 784), p. 92-105.
1285. Villegas Domnguez, Rodrigo. Investigaciones prehistricas, Revista de la
Casa de la Cultura (Ibarra), 10:9 (mayo 1964), 28-38.
1286. Viteri Gamboa, Julio. Importancia de la arqueologa ecuatoriana para la
prehistoria de Amrica, Memoria del primer Congreso Ecuatoriano de Arqueologa
(item 784), p. 198-201.
1287. Viteri Gamboa, Julio; and Adolfo Hctor Venturini. Influencia de las culturas
formativas del Ecuador en la regin N.O. Argentina. Guayaquil: Escuela Politcnica del
Litoral, 1981. 22 p.
1288. Volland, Martin. Los Punaes: una jefatura del perodo tardo de integracin,
Relaciones interculturales en el rea ecuatorial del Pacfico durante la poca
precolombina (item 1162), p. 247-258.
An ethnohistorical study that delineates and clarifies multiple aspects of the nature of
the complex, apparently prosperous and populous chiefdom of Pun on the eve of the
Spanish conquest. Among the more interesting of Vollands conclusions is that the
Incas imposed a commercial blockade on Pun, at least during the early 1500s, in
order to weaken and isolate what was still an independent polity.
1289. Wellmann, Klaus F. ber Felsbilder in Ecuador, Almogaren, 9/10 (1978/1979),
225-235.
1290. Wiener, Charles. Les Indiens Colorados et les sige de pierre de la rgion de
Manab, Revue dethnographie, 1 (1882), 454-458.
1291. Wiley, Gordon R. Ecuadorean Figurines and the Ceramic Mold in the New
World, American Antiquity, 13:3 (July 1947), 85-86.
1292. Wing, Elizabeth S. Dusicyon Sechurae en contextos arqueolgicos
tempranos, (in) Karen E. Stothert, La Prehistoria temprana de la Pennsula de Santa
Elena, Ecuador (item 1235), p. 179-185.
1293. Zeidler, James A. Environment, Cultural Chronology, and Prehistoric
Subsistence in the Jama River Valley = Medio ambiente, cronologa cultural y
subsistencia prehistrica en el Valle del Ro Jama. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh,
Department of Anthropology; Quito: Ediciones Libri Mundi Enrique Grosse Luemern,
1994. xxiii, 224 p. (Regional Archaeology in Northern Manabi, Ecuador = Arqueologa
regional del norte de Manab, Ecuador, edited by James A. Zeidler, Deborah M.
Pearsall; vol. 1)
Reports the stratigraphic, ceramic, sediment, and botanical evidence that bear witness
to the occupation of the Jama River Valley from late Valdivia (i.e., circa 3620 BC)
through the present.
1294. Zeidler, James A. La etnoarqueologa de una vivienda Achuar y sus
An illustrated article on prehispanic gold artifacts in the Casa de la Cultura, Ncleo del
Guayas collection.
1304. Zevallos Menndez, Carlos; and Olaf Holm. Excavaciones arqueolgicas en
San Pablo: informe preliminar. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del
Guayas, 1960. 42 p.
Describes results of excavations at the site of San Pablo, an excellent example of the
Valdivia Culture. Some new styles of pottery figurines were found, in addition to
complete shell fish hooks and the tools used to make them. Includes 29 pages of
excellent illustrations.
In addition to items 1298-1304, see Zevallos Menndezs posthumously published
Nuestras races huancavilcas (Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del
Guayas, 1995; 455 p.), an anthology that brings together his studies on the archaeology
of the coast, especially of the Valdivia, Mantea, and Huancavilca cultures.
1305. Zilkowski, Mariusz S.; and Robert M. Sadowski. Investigaciones
arqueoastronmicas en el sitio de Ingapirca, Prov. de Caar, Ecuador, Rivista di
archeologia, 9 (1989), 151-167.
Identifies calendrical-astronomical functions, focusing on the June solstice, in three of
the structures at Ingapirca.
See also the authorss La arqueoastronoma en las investigaciones de las culturas
andinas. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de
Antropologa, 1992. 378 p. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 9)
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
PERIODO HISPANICO
LA CONQUISTA ESPAOLA Y LAS GUERRAS CIVILES
As of the late 1990s, the Spanish conquest of what would become--not what had been-the Kingdom of Quito and the subsequent civil wars between the conquistadores had
not been well treated insofar as the future Ecuador per se is concerned. The most
extensive account was that of Luis Andrade Reimers (item 1307), but what Andrade
Reimers did was to rework older studies such as Jacinto Jijn y Caamaos well
documented Sebastin de Benalczar (item 3298) and published sources such as the
Libros de cabildos de Quito (item 7034) without adding anything appreciably new in the
way of interpretation or approach. Much more important was John Hemmings brief but
insightful account of The Conquest of Quito in his The Conquest of the Incas (item
1322).
There are no chronicles of the conquest period specific to Ecuador. A number of the
early chroniclers, however, treat the Spanish subjugation and initial exploitation of the
northern part of the Tahuantinsuyu. With a few exceptions, there is no need to list them
here, given Teodoro Hampe Martnezs, Philip Ainsworth Meanss, and Ral Porras
Barrenecheas outstanding guides to and studies thereof (items 92, 258, and 275).
Furthermore, Robert E. Norris devoted a section to the chronicles in item 150 (p. 36-42)
as did Ruben Vargas Ugarte in item 434. See also J. Roberto Pezs well edited
Crnicas coloniales (item 1318) and Horacio Larran Barross Cronistas de raigumbre
indgena (item 1319).
There were only a few relevant published sources on the conquest and the civil wars,
apart from the chronicles. The most important are items 1309, 1316, and 1331, and
the probanzas or relaciones de mritos of conquistadores published in the Revista del
Archivo Histrico del Guayas (items 1323 and 1332-1335).
1308. Andrade Reimers, Luis. Hacia la verdadera historia de Atahualpa. Quito: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1978. 392 p.
A critique of accounts and studies of the capture of Atahualpa and a not altogether
successful attempt to produce a realistic and modern reconstruction of what
happened at Cajamarca. Furthermore, Atahualpa as portrayed by Andrade Reimers
ceases to be historical and become a mythical hero, flawed only by his blind trust in
others, being himself totally trustworthy.
1309. Aporte documental a la captura de Rumiahui: copia tomada de su original del
Archivo Central del Cauca, por Luis Enrique Ubidia Rubio, Boletn del Archivo Nacional
de Historia, 2:3/4 (ene./dic. 1951), 5-42.
Publishes the relaciones de mritos of Miguel de la Chica and Rodrigo de Villalobos,
two of the conquistadores who participated in the defeat and capture of the Inca war
leader Rumiahui.
1310. Avellaneda Navas, Jos Ignacio. La expedicin de Sebastin de Belalczar al
Mar del Norte y su llegada al Nuevo Reino de Granada. Bogot: Banco de la
Repblica, 1992. 252 p.
Largely given over to: Biografas de los compaeros de Belalczar (p. 23-191).
1311. Barrera B., Jaime. Tiempo y ritmo de la aventura: estampa del fabuloso
conquistador Sebastin de Benlcazar. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1940.
44 p.
1312. Bedoya Maruri, Angel Nicanor. La batalla de Iaquito, 18 de enero de 1546
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 57:123 (ene./jun. 1974), 132-138.
Abstracts and quotes extensively from Pedro Gutirrez de Santa Claras eye witness
account of the Battle of Iaquito.
1313. Benzoni, Girolamo. La historia del Mondo Nuovo: relatos de su viaje por el
Ecuador, 1547-1550, traducida por primera vez en lengua castellana por Carlos
Radicati di Primaglio, autor igualmente de la introduccin y de las notas, 2 ed.
Guayaquil: Museo Antropolgico y Pinacoteca, Banco Central del Ecuador, 1985. iv,
135 p.
An exceptionally important account of the conquest and colonization of the coast by an
early Italian traveler who spent several years in the future Ecuador and came to know
many of its places and peoples. Benzoni spent some months in and around Portoviejo,
for example. Includes an excellent introductory essay. Benzoni also traveled
extensively elsewhere in the Americas. Originally published in Italian as: La historia del
Mondo Nuovo (Venice: Francesco Rampazetto, 1565; 175 leaves). Available in a
number of modern editions and several languages (e.g., Historia del Nuevo Mundo
Madrid: Alianza Edit., 1989 ed. 350 p.)
1314. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. La Audiencia de Quito: colofn de una guerra de cien
aos, Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 22:1 (ene./mar. 1966), 9-32.
An essay on the significance of the turbulent years from the civil wars of the Incas
through the pacification of Quito and the Perus by La Gasca. Cevallos Garca
maintains that it was during those years that the future Ecuador was forged and
following the Spanish conquest, when Quito emerged as the dominant as well as the
predominant city of the country in the making. Reprinted in the authors Temas
histricos ecuatorianos (item 217), vol. 1, p. 289-318.
1315. Cieza de Len, Pedro de. Obras completas, edicin crtica, notas, comentarios
e indices, estudios y documentos adicionales de Carmelo Senz de Santa Mara.
Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas, Instituto Gonzalo Fernndez
de Oviedo, 1984-1985. 3 v.
An excellent edition of the basic Crnica del Per. Cieza de Len spent several years
in Quito and the Perus (1547-1551). He took copious notes and interviewed numerous
countrymen, Incas, and other natives. Contents: vol. 1, La crnica del Per; Las
guerras civiles peruanas; vol. 2, Las guerras civiles peruanas; vol. 3, Estudio biobibliogrfico: Cieza de Len, su persona y su obra.
Another outstanding edition is that of the Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Per,
Fondo Editorial, and the Academia Nacional de Historia: Crnica del Per. Primera
parte, introduccin de Franklin Pease G.Y., notas de Miguel Maticorena E., 2a ed. cor.
(1986); Segunda parte, edicin, prlogo y notas de Francesca Cant (1986); Tercera
parte, edicin, prlogo y notas de Francesca Cant (1989).
1316. Coleccin de documentos inditos relativos al adelantado Capitn don
Sebastin de Benalczar, 1535-1565, descifrados y anotados por Jorge A. Garcs G.
Quito: Archivo Municipal, 1936. xxiv, 590, liii p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal;
10)
A major group of primary sources on the Spanish conquest and settlement of the
northern Andes.
1317. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo; and Piedad Peaherrera de Costales. Centuria,
1534-1634. Riobamba: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Chimborazo, 1982.
200 p.
A popular, pro-Andean account of the first century of the colonial period.
1318. Cronistas coloniales, estudio, biografas y seleccin de J. Roberto Pez.
Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1959. 2 v. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima; [3])
A useful compendium of selections relating to the conquest of what would become
Ecuador, from chronicles of the period.
1319. Cronistas de raigumbre indgena, [recopilacin de] Horacio Larran Barros.
Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1980. 2 v. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 1415)
An anthology of chronicles by Andean (i.e., mestizos) and early Andeanists.
1320. Documentos relativos a D. Pedro de La Gasca y a Gonzalo Pizarro, edicin de
Juan Prez de Tudela Bueso. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia, 1964. 2 v.
(Archivo documental espaol; 21)
Included here because of the major role Quito and its encomenderos played in the civil
wars. Indexed by name, but unfortunately not by place.
1321. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Andanzas de Cieza por tierras americanas. Guayaquil:
Banco Central del Ecuador, Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1987. xi, 281 p.
Maintains that Cieza de Len did not have personal knowledge of the coast of Ecuador
but depended on the oral testimony of others. Nonetheless, Estrada finds Cieza de
Len to be reliable for the most part.
1322. Hemming, John. The Conquest of the Incas. London: Macmillan, 1970. 641 p.
Hemmings chapter on The Quitan Campaign (p. 151-168) is a lucid analysis and
solid interpretation of the Spanish excursion into and subjugation of the future Ecuador.
1323. Informacin de Diego de Sandoval, 7.III.1542, Revista del Archivo Histrico del
Guayas, 4:7 (jun. 1975), 105-114.
Together with item 1333, important primary sources for the study of the conquest and
civil war years inasmuch as Sandoval and those who testified on his behalf were either
conquerors themselves or early settlers.
1324. Lohmann Villena, Guillermo. Las ideas jurdico-polticas en la rebelin de
Gonzalo Pizarro: la tramova doctrinal de levantamiento contra las leyes nuevas en el
Per. Valladolid: Casa-Museo de Coln y Seminario Americanista, Secretariado de
Publicaciones, de la Universidad de Valladolid, 1977. 112 p.
1325. Loor, Wilfrido. La conquista de Quito. Quito: El Comercio, 1943. 104 p.
A popular account of the conquest period with an emphasis on Spanish excursions into
the future Province of Manab and the foundation of Portoviejo (1534). Incorporates
Loors 1935 Los espaoles en Manab (item 5997). Republished in his: Manab,
prehistoria y conquista (item 6000), p. 194-291.
1326. Muller, Richard. The History of the Conquest of Quito. Santo Domingo,
Repblica Dominicana: V. Montalvo, 1929. 95 p.
1327. Oberem, Udo. Los Caaris y la conquista espaola de la sierra ecuatoriana:
otro captulo de las relaciones intertnicas en el siglo XVI, Journal de la Socit des
amricanistes, 63 (1974/1976), 263-274.
Delineates the role of the Caaris in the Spanish conquest of the Ecuadorian highlands.
Severely punished by Atahualpa because they had sided with Huascar, the Caaris
allied with Benalczar against the victorious Inca and his cohorts. Ironically and
tragically for the Caaris, they were subjugated by Francisco Atahualpa Inca, son of
Atahualpa Inca, during the rebellion of the Quijos, with whom they also sided. Reprinted
in item 605 and in: Cultura, 3:7 (mayo/ago. 1980), 137-151. See also item 607.
1328. Orellana, Francisco de. Documentos sobre el descubrimiento de Amazonas,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 36:87 (ene./jun. 1956), 124-132.
Sometimes incorrectly cited as: Cartas de Francisco de Orellana. Reprints Gonzalo
Pizarros letter of 3 Sept. 1542 to the crown, Francisco de Orellanas letters of 9 May,
30 May, 20 June, 22 Oct., and 21 Nov. 1544 to the crown, and the capitulacin or
contract between Orellana and the crown.
1329. Ortiz Bilbao, Luis Alfonso. Las leyes nuevas en Quito, Anuario histrico
jurdico ecuatoriano, 6 (1980), 273-319.
1330. Plit Montes de Oca, Vicente. Conquista del Per, Quito y descubrimiento del
ro de las Amazonas, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 3, p. 67-90.
A bare bones sketch.
1331. Primigenios documentos notariales y jurdicos de la historia ecuatoriana,
[transcritos y con una introduccin por] Rafael Euclides Silva, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 10:27 (1961), 17-62.
Consists of modernized transcriptions of the earliest notarial records produced in what
is now Ecuador, having been drawn up in Coaque in 1531.
1332. Probanza de Diego de Navarrete (Quito, 25.XI. 1578), Revista del Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 7:13 (jun. 1978), 79-109.
Regarding the merits and services of an early vecino of Guayaquil who participated in
the civil wars, allegedly on the side of the crown.
1333. Probanza de Diego de Sandoval, 19.XI.1539, Revista del Archivo Histrico del
Guayas, transcripcin de Juan Freile Granizo, 4:7 (jun. 1975), 73-104.
See also item 1323.
1334. Probanza de mritos de Martn Ramrez de Guzmn, Revista del Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 5:10 (dic. 1976), 27-146.
Consists of eye witness accounts from the 1570s regarding the role played by Ramrez
de Guzmn, a vecino and encomendero of Guayaquil, in the defeat of Gonzalo Pizarro
and the early history of the coast. Compiled between 1573 and 1577. Transcribed by
Juan Chacn Zhapn.
1335. Probanza de Pedro Domnguez Miradero, Quito, 26.IX.1564, Revista del
Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 9:18 (dic. 1980), 97-132.
The relacin de mrito of an early vecino of Quito, who was also one of the
conquistadores of the northern Andes. Transcribed by Juan Chacn Zhapn.
1336. Reyes, Oscar Efrn. Descubrimiento y conquista del Ecuador: historia de las
exploraciones espaolas en territorio ecuatoriano. Quito: Impr. Caja del Seguro, 1948.
46 p.
1337. Rodicio Garca, Sara. La ayuda indgena en la conquista espaola del norte del
Ecuador: el caso de don Sancho y Velasco, Arqueologa y etnohistoria del sur de
Colombia y norte del Ecuador (item 685), p. 219-230.
1338. Romero Arteta, Oswaldo. El indio quiteo en el siglo XVI, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 47:104 (jul./dic. 1964), 212-223.
A well meaning but poorly informed and paternalistic attempt to understand the
mentality of the conquered.
1339. Salomon, Frank. Crisis y transformacin de la sociedad aborigen invadida
(1528-1573), Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 3, p. 91-122.
A solid essay on the role of ethnic groups, especially of the Caaris in the Spanish
conquest of Quito and of the multivariant impact of the conquest on the ethnic groups of
the highlands.
1340. Szszdi, Adm. En torno a la balsa de Salango, Ecuador, que captur
Bartolom Ruiz, Anuario de estudios americanos, 35 (1978), 453-554.
Maintains that the Relacin Smano, the most important of the early contact chronicles
for Ecuador, was written by Gonzalo Fernndez de Oviedo, and not Francisco de
Xrez. Also argues that the balsa taken by Bartolom Ruiz was not an Inca vessel but
pertained to one of the ethnic groups of the coast of Ecuador.
1341. Tern, Francisco. Presencia de Nicaragua en la conquista de Quito y el Per,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 63:135/136 (ene./dic. 1980), 229-248.
Regarding the incursion of Pedro de Alvarado and other marauders from Central
America.
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
LA COLONIA
Notwithstanding the considerable number of works on the sixteenth, seventeenth,
eighteenth, and/or early nineteenth centuries, as of the late 1990s, the colonial period
had not nearly as well worked as it could have been, especially insofar as
chronologically and thematically comprehensive studies are concerned. The most
detailed account continued to be that of Federico Gonzlez Surez (item 1388). There
had been some notable advances, nonetheless, a good example of which is the Nueva
historia del Ecuador (item 615). Furthermore, the most thematically comprehensive as
well as up-to-date in approach introduction to the colonial period was that to be found
by various scholars in vols 3-6 of the Nueva historia del Ecuador, for the specific
contributions to which items 1347, 1351, 1352, 1357, 1401, 1410, 1430, 1433, 1435,
1447, 1478, and 1513.
In addition to the didactic accounts referred to in the introductory remarks to Historia:
Obras generales y miscelneas, see also Aquiles R. Prez T.s Historia de la
Repblica del Ecuador (item 1468), an essay on the colonial period--regardless of its
title--largely based on original research, mostly in the Archivo Nacional de Historia
(Quito).
Insofar as the sixteenth century is concerned, only Jos Mara Vargas had produced a
new overview (item 1529). The same held true for the seventeenth century (item
1530). Although useful, Vargass two quasi-chronicles left much to be desired. The
late Father Vargas relied on the not altogether satisfactory transcriptions of Archivo
General de Indias materials in the Vacas Galindo Collection and was methodologically
weak, having been an autodidact. Vargas had a very strong interest in cultural and
economic developments, however, and gave us a number of notable works along those
lines, especially his Historia de la cultura ecuatoriana (item 3758)--the latter of which
also takes in the national period--and La economia poltica del Ecuador durante la
colonia (item 1528).
The eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, however, had been exceptionally well
treated by Kenneth J. Andrien in The Kingdom of Quito, 1690-1830 (item 1343). See
also: Rosemarie Tern Najass promising Los proyectos del imperio borbnico en la
Real Audiencia de Quito (item 1510); and Douglas A. Washburns somewhat
disappointing doctoral dissertation, The Bourbon Reforms (item 1542).
Notwithstanding the numerous, mostly important by any standard, contributions made in
ethnohistory during the final third of the twentieth century, a comprehensive history of
Andean ethnic groups from the Spanish conquest through the eve of independence
remained to be produced. The same could be said for the social history of the colonial
period, but in the interim, Hugo Arias Palacioss Evolucin socioeconmica del
Ecuador: sociedades primitivas y perodo colonial (item 687) helped fill in some of the
gaps. The economic history of the period was in appreciably better shape. In addition
to Vargass Historia econmica, Arias Palacioss Evolucin socioeconmica, and
Andriens The Kingdom of Quito, see: Robson Brines Tyrers pioneering Historia
demogrfica y econmica (item 5427); Nicholas P. Cushners Farm and Factory (item
1370); and Manuel Mio Grijalvas La protoindustria colonial hispanoamericana and La
manufactura colonial: la constitucin tcnica del obraje (items 1435 and 1436). The
population history of the period had also begun to become known in some detail as well
as in outline (in addition to the works listed below, see those in the Demografa
histrica section, almost all of which examine developments of one or more of the
sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth, and early-nineteenth centuries).
Some readers will note the apparent absence of a number of other pre-1996 studies of
importance on the colonial period in this section. But that is because they are to be
found in elsewhere in this bibliography (for example, in the Historia regional and
Historia urbana sections).
The past of Ecuador continued to be intertwined with those of neighboring Peru and
Colombia during the colonial period. Many of the documentary sets published on the
Viceroyalties of Peru and Nueva Granada, to both of which the Audiencia/Presidency of
Quito was subordinated at one time or another, contain not just data but entire
documents relating to the future Ecuador.
In addition to the guides to the chronicles and other Peruvian materials mentioned in
the introductory remarks to the La conquista espaola y las guerras civiles subsection,
see Ral Porras Barrenecheas Fuentes histricas peruanas (Lima: Instituto Ral
Porras Barrenechea, Escuela de Altos Estudios y de Investigaciones Peruvianistas,
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, 1963). Bibliographies and guides to
historical materials of Colombia were and may still be less complete, but Mario Germn
Romero, Guillermo Hernndez de Alba, and Sergio Elas Ortiz, Papeles bibliogrficas
para el estudio de la historia de Colombia (Bogot: Banco de la Repblica; Biblioteca
Luis-Angel Arango, 1961) is helpful as is also the ongoing History: Spanish South
America: Colonial Period section of the Handbook of Latin American studies.
Few Ecuadorian historians and Ecuadorianists appear to be aware of the substantial
number and variety of relevant imprints of the colonial period. Admittedly it is no easy
matter to locate colonial period imprints, but as primary sources they are just as
indispensable as manuscripts of the era. I too was unaware of just how many
published informes, memorias, and other materials of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and
eighteenth century exist in addition to the long since known chronicles and travel
accounts before coming to the John Carter Brown Library in 1998--too late to
incorporate said imprints in this bibliography. I am referring of course to materials
printed during the colonial period, not to subsequently published materials of the
colonial period.
Although Ecuador did not have a printing press of its own until 1755, a number of
Spaniards, Ecuadorians, and other colonials published many materials of importance
on or relating to the colony in Madrid, elsewhere in Spain, and in Lima. For substantial
albeit incomplete guides to said items, see Jos Toribio Medinas Biblioteca hispanoamericana, 1493-1810 (Santiago de Chile: J.T. Medina, 1898-1907; 7 v.; reprint:
Amsterdam: N. Israel, 1966); Medinas La imprenta en Lima (Santiago de Chile: J.T.
Medina, 1904-1907; 4 v.); and Rubn Vargas Ugartes Impresos peruanos (Lima, 19351957; 7 v.; vols. 6-12 of his Biblioteca peruana, 6-12)--cited in a variety of bewildering
ways by bibliographers, cataloguers, and scholars. Unfortunately the author indexes to
these bibliographies are incomplete and subject indexes nonexistent.
Some examples of what I mean are:
1) Memorial, que el licenciado don Matias Lagunez, del consejo de su Magestad, y
oydor de la Real Audiencia de San Francisco de Quito, haziendo oficio de fiscal en ella,
di, y present en dicha Real Audiencia, cerca del beneficio, y cobrana de los
tributos de los indios. Y de los medios que se pueden poner, para que se eviten los
fraudes, que en dicha cobrana se cometen, en dao, y perjuicio de la Real Hazienda
(Madrid, 1686; 12 leaves);
2) Manifiesto veridico, y legal, que en hecho, y derecho evidencia lo que contienen los
autos de pesquisa, y la inculpabilidad, que de ellos resulta en todos los cargos, que se
le hicieron a D. Joseph de Araujo y Rio, del Consejo de su Magestad, presidente,
governador, y capitan general de la Real Audiencia de Quito, por el juez de pesquisa
don Manuel Rubio de Arevalo, del consejo de su Magestad, provisto oidor de Santa F
([Madrid, 1745]; 168, [2] leaves);
3) Informe, que en virtud de poderes, e instrucciones del Rdo. Obispo de Quito, hace a
V. Magestad el Dor. D. Diego de Riofrio y Peralta, cura de la parroquial de Santa
Barbara de dicha ciudad, y visitador nombrado en consequencia de reales cedulas de
V. Mag. de las Provincias de los Quixos Zucumbios, del gran Rio de las Amazonas, y
del Puthumayo, para el reconocimiento de sus misiones, y otros encargos. Expone lo
que sobre ellos ha reconocido; el numero, y nombre de los pueblos en missiones
establecidos; su actual consistencia en missioneros, vecindarios, y numero de almas
convertidas; sus costumbres, y otras noticias utiles (Madrid, 1747; 15 leaves);
4) Compendio historico de la prodigiosa vida, virtudes, y milagros de la venerable
sierva de Dios Mariana de Jesus, Flores, y Paredes, conocida con el justo renombre de
la Azucena de Quito / escrito por don Thomas de Gijon y Leon, doctor theologo en la
Universidad del angelico doctor Santo Thomas, y en sagrados canones en la del seor
S. Gregorio, examinador sinodal del obispado de Quito, racionero de su Santa Iglesia
Cathedral, y procurador deputado las curias regia, y pontificia para la beatificacion, y
canonizacion de la referida sierva de Dios (Madrid. : En la Imprenta del Mercurio, por
Joseph de Orga, impressor., ao de 1754; [58], 217, [3] p.); and
5) Carta pastoral, que con occasion de la ruyna de la ciudad de Quito, participada a
esta capital, escribe el Illmo. Sor. Dor. D. Pedro Antonio de Barroeta y Angel, arzobispo
de los Reyes, a sus amadas ovejas, exhortandolas, que aplaquen la ira de Dios, que
les amenaza; satisfagan con frutos dignos de penitencia la Divina Justicia; y merezcan
conseguir su misericordia (Impressa en Lima, en la Plazuela de S. Christoval. Por Juan
Joseph Cossio. Ao de 1755; 29 leaves).
The first example is described in Medinas Biblioteca hispano-americana and the fifth in
Medinas La imprenta en Lima and Vargas Ugartes Impresos peruanos. The first
example is also listed in Norriss Gua bibliogrfica. The second example, one of
Araujos defense briefs as it were, does not appear in Medina, Vargas Ugarte, Norris, or
Larreas Bibliografa cientfica, however. Nor does the third example, Riofro y Peraltas
Informe--a significant historical demographic as well as ecclesiastical historical source.
The only known copies of the second and third examples are in the John Carter Brown
Library; copies of the other three examples may also be seen in the John Carter Brown
Library. The fourth example is, of course, described and discussed in Larreas Las
biografas de Santa Mariana de Jess (item 248).
periods. Concludes that the state regardless of period or persona promoted economic
polices that created a discriminatory, arbitrary, and irrational economic environment for
promoting sustained, autonomous development.
1345. Arcila Farias, Eduardo. Comercio entre Venezuela y Mxico en los siglos XVII y
XVIII. Mxico, D.F.: El Colegio de Mxico, 1960. 324 p.
Includes a running discussion of the running disputa de Venezuela y Guayaquil por el
mercado [de cacao] de la Nueva Espaa.
1346. Argello, Patricia; and Loreto Rebollero G. Explotacin de oro en la Real
Audiencia de Quito durante el siglo XVI, Antropologa (Quito), 1 (jun. 1983), 32-49.
A superficial analysis of the exploitation of gold mining during the second half of the
sixteenth century. Insofar as primary sources are concerned, relies on the relaciones
geogrficas published by Jimnez de la Espada (item 1406), whose name Argello and
Rebollero could not even spell correctly, and ignores other published sources such as
Las Minas de Zamora: cuentas de la Real Hacienda, 1561-1565 (item 6392).
1347. Arias Palacios, Hugo. La economa de la Real Audiencia de Quito y la crisis del
siglo XVIII, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 4, p. 187-229.
A somewhat anachronistic account of the crisis of the eighteenth century and the
restructuring of the economies of the highlands and of the coast in response thereto.
Arias ignored all of the newer literature on what was happening in the mother country
and in the Perus, almost all of the newer studies on the highlands, and relied
excessively on Hamerlys Historia social y econmica (item 5975) when it comes to
developments in the former Province of Guayaquil.
1348. Ascaray, Juan de Abogados de la Real Audiencia de Quito, Boletn del Archivo
Nacional de Historia, 8:13 (ago. 1964), 29-45.
Lists lawyers licensed between 1733 and 1829.
1349. Ascaray, Juan de. Serie chronlogica de los seores presidentes que ha tenido
la Audiencia y Chancillera Real de Quito, desde su fundacin ... Quito: Impr. de
Mauricio de los Reyes, 1794. 1 v. (not paginated)
A calendar of the presidents of the audiencia. Ascaray (b. 1743) was the first lay
chronicler of the Presidency of Quito.
1350. Autos acordados de la Real Audiencia de Quito, 1578-1722, [transcritos y con
una introduccin por] Juan Freile Granizo. Guayaquil: Corporacin de Estudios y
Publicaciones, 1971. 615 p. (Anuario histrico jurdico ecuatoriano; 2)
Publishes resolutions of the Audiencia. Includes related documents. An important
primary source group on multiple, not just institutional, aspects of the colonial period.
Indexed.
1351. Benavides Vega, Carlos. Sinopsis histrica del siglo XVII, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 4, p. 105-137.
Examines political and cultural developments of the 1600s.
1352. Bentez, Silvia; and Gaby Costa. La familia, la ciudad y la vida cotidiana en el
perodo colonial, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 5, p. 187-230.
An attempt to examine family, urban, and daily life during the colonial period. Not
altogether satisfactory given the then scant literature on the topics in question.
Nonetheless, a commendable first effort. See also items 2185 and 2612.
1353. Blanco, Jos Mara. Noticias histrico-econmicas de Quito, Museo Histrico,
4:14/15 (1952), 11-30.
An 1825 chronicle by the continuador of Ascaray. Blanco was a priest.
1354. Bonnett Vlez, Diana. El protector de naturales en la Audiencia de Quito: siglos
XVII y XVIII, 1 ed. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede
Ecuador, 1992. 153 p.
A well researched master's thesis on the Protectorate of Indians. Examines the office
and analyzes a number of cases relating to land and labor disputes and to tribute
impositions. A historiographical first for Ecuador.
1355. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. Beyond the Obraje: Handicraft Production in
Quito toward the End of the Colonial Period, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of
Inter-American Cultural History, 52:1 (July 1995), 1-24.
A pioneering essay on a largely neglected aspect of the economy of the colonial period,
the domestic as well as guild and workshop production of handicrafts other than woolen
textiles. Borchart focuses mostly on the northern and central highlands, tackles the late
colonial period because of the existence of a record group (the libros de guas) that
sheds light on the subject, and examines a wide variety of cottage craft industries.
Nonetheless, she has much more to say on the production of cotton textiles than of
other handicrafts, but that is because of limitations in the sources consulted. Also
published in Spanish as: Ms all del obraje: la produccin artesanal en Quito hacia
finales del perodo colonial, Memoria, MARKA, 5 (1995), 1-34.
1356. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. Capital comercial y produccin agrcola:
Nueva Espaa y la Audiencia de Quito en el siglo XVIII, Anuario de estudios
americanos, 46 (1989), 131-172.
Primarily a study of Carlos Araujo, a major merchant and landowner of Quito in the
1700s, with some discussion of several of his Mexican counterparts.
1357. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. Origen y conformacin de la hacienda
colonial, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 4, p. 139-166.
A solid introduction to the emergence of landed estates during the early colonial period
by a leading authority on the subject (see items 6090, 6091, 6093-6095).
1358. Borja, Luis Felipe (hijo). La mujer ecuatoriana, Gaceta municipal (Quito), 10:79
(oct./dic. 1934), 243-247.
A brief appreciation of the role of women, especially of exceptional women, during the
colonial and independence periods.
1359. Borrero, Manuel Mara. Espaa en Quito. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1969.
472 p.
An apologetic for the Spanish conquest and colony. Exalts Spaniards, especially
peninsulars, as christianizers and civilizers, and blames Indians, blacks, and the
castes for Ecuadors past and present problems.
1360. Buchwald, Otto von. Propiedad rstica en tiempo de la colonia, Revista de la
Sociedad Jurdico-Literaria, 23:74/75 (1920), 69-79.
An essay on rural estates, especially haciendas, during the colonial period.
1361. Bschges, Christian. Familie, Ehre, und Macht: Konzept und soziale Wirklichkeit
des Adels in der Stadt Quito (Ecuador) whrend der spten Kolonialzeit, 1765-1822.
Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1996.
A social and economic history of the nobility in the city of Quito and the northern and
central highlands during the late colonial and independence periods. By nobility is
meant the titled, hidalgos, and those generally reputed to be noble, especially
descendants of conquistadores and primeros vecinos and high ranking members of the
local bureaucracy, Church, and militia. Well researched and solidly documented. A
major contribution to the history of the much touted but previously poorly studied creole
elite, a group whom Bschges rightfully maintains was quite conservative.
1362. Caillavet, Chantal. Ex-voto coloniaux et pense andine: une iconographie du
syncrtisme religieux, Religions des Andes et langues indignes: Equateur, Prou,
Bolivie avant et aprs la conqute espagnole: actes du Colloque III dtudes andines,
Pierre Duviols coordinateur (Aix-Marseille: Publications de lUniversit de Provence,
1993), p. 261-279.
A pioneering essay, insofar as Ecuador is concerned, of the extent to which Andean
religious beliefs and practices persisted after the Spanish conquest and Christian
proselytization of the indigenous populations and of the ways and means by which lo
andino permeated Catholic rituals and iconography, especially the Marian cult and its
multiple manifestations, during the colonial period and beyond.
1363. Caldas, Francisco Jos de. Cartas de Caldas, recopiladas y publicadas por E.P.
Bogot: Impr. Nacional, 1912. xxvii, 596 p. (Biblioteca de historia nacional; vol. IX)
An important compendium of sources. It will be recalled that Caldas was a pensador
who was active in the Presidency of Quito as well as in his native New Granada during
the early 1800s, and subsequently a prcer of the movements for independence. See
also items 7235-7237.
1364. Carondelet, Luis Hector, Barn de. El Barn de Carondelet y la apertura del
camino a Esmeraldas, Boletn del Archivo Nacional de Historia, 4:6 (ene./dic. 1956), 617.
An 1800 proposal by the Barn de Carondelet to reopen the road to Esmeraldas.
1365. Carondelet, Luis Hector, Barn de. Informe reservado, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 36:88 (jul./dic. 1956), 256-265.
... (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1751) and his Histoire des pyramides de Quito ... ([Paris:
Imprimerie Royale], 1751), and publishes the Expediente sobre las pirmides de
Yaruqu (1740-1749). And vol. 8, to cite two other examples, includes a lengthy
expediente on the erection of the Diocesis of Cuenca and published for the first time
Jos Romualdo Navarros 1761 Idea del Reino de Quito.
1376. Documentos sobre el camino de Ibarra a Esmeraldas, [transcripciones de]
Carlos Manuel Larrea, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 36:87 (ene./jun.
1956), 120-121.
See also items 1364, 1365, 1400, and 1507.
1377. La Economa colonial: relaciones socio-econmicas de la Real Audiencia de
Quito, introduccin y seleccin, Manuel Mio Grijalva. [Quito]: Corporacin Editora
Nacional, 1984. 322 p.
Reprints six standard accounts of the late colonial period: 1) Miguel de Santiestebans
Viaje muy puntual y curioso que hace por tierra ... desde Lima hasta Caracas en 1740
y 1741; 2) Jos Romualdo Navarros Idea del Reino de Quito (1761); 3-5) Francisco
Jos de Caldass Viaje al corazn de Barnuevo (1804) Viajes al sur de Quito (1804);
and Viaje de Quito a Popayn (1805); and 6) Andrs Baleatos Monografa de
Guayaquil (1820). Also Mios Estudio introductorio (p. 13-85), at the time of the
publication of this work, was a useful introduction to the population and economic
history of the colonial period.
1378. Espinosa Fernndez de Crdoba, Carlos R. La mascarada del Inca: una
investigacin acerca del teatro poltico de la colonia, Miscelnea histrica ecuatoriana,
2:2 (1989), 7-39.
A detailed analysis of the multifaceted roles memory of the Sapa Inca played in colonial
society. In this case the Inca was represented not just allegorically in fiestas or
iconographically in processions but also in the person of don Alonso Arena Florencia
Inca, a great grandson of Atahualpa--therefore an auqui--and the corregidor of Ibarra in
the 1660s.
1379. Fernandez Martnez, Montserrat. La alcabala en la Audiencia de Quito, 17651810. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1984. 185 p.
An original licentiate thesis on the administration and collection of sales tax during the
reigns of Charles III and IV, and on the socioeconomic impact of the Bourbon reforms
on the upper class of the city of Quito as revealed by analysis of real estate sales and
other transactions. A novel study that illuminates many aspects of the period.
1380. Fiehrer, Thomas. El camino a Esmeraldas: un problema en la administracin
del Reino de Quito, 1790-1807, Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 7:13 (jun.
1978), 59-75.
Reexamines Carondelets attempts to reopen the road from Quito to Esmeraldas.
Based on original research in the Archivo General de Indias and the ANH/Q.
1381. Flores, Antonio. El Reino de Quito segn las relaciones de los virreyes del
Nuevo Reino de Granada, las de antiguos autores, etc. Santiago [de Chile], 1870. 50
p.
Consists of excerpts and notes from eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century sources.
For the complete texts of the relaciones de mando excerpted see items 1455 and 1456.
1382. Flores Jaramillo, Renn. Notas histricas sobre el terremoto de 1797: sacadas
del Archivo de Indias de Sevilla, Museo Histrico, 4:12/13 (1952), 67-70.
1383. Fuentealba, Gerardo. Forasteros, comunidades indgenas, Estado y grupos de
poder en la Audiencia de Quito, siglo XVIII, Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica,
4:8 (1990), 59-98.
Reexamines the increase in forasteros in the eighteenth century. Maintains that Indians
employed migration as an agency to reduce amount of tribute they were charged, to
avoid mita, and to obtain and therefore to retain land and usage thereof. Fuentealbas
first and second conclusions have been substantiated for the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries as well by Karen Powers (see item 5421). Fuentealba also reexamines the
largely succesful efforts of the state under the Bourbons to rationalize tribute schedules
and to exact more tribute from Indians and the socioeconomic consequences thereof.
1384. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Indice cronolgico de los abogados recibidos
en la Real Audiencia de Quito, Boletn de la Biblioteca Nacional, 4/5 (ene./feb. 1921),
136-144; 6/7 (mar./abr. 1921), 209-221; 8/15 (mayo/dic. 1921), 273-283.
Includes biographical notes.
1385. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Un proyecto de camino de Quito a Guayaquil
en el siglo XVIII, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 1:2 (nov./dic. 1920),
242-250.
Publishes with an introduction Informe de Miguel Agustn de Olmedo on the need to
open an all weather road between the capital and the port city. Miguel Agustn was the
father of Jos Joaqun Olmedo.
1386. Gonzlez Pujana, Laura. Minera y trabajo indgena en los Andes: Guamanga y
Zaruma, Revista complutense de historia de Amrica, 18 (1992), 117-131.
A comparative study of the assignation of Indian labor in the 1500s to the mines of
Guamanga (in Peru) and Zaruma in the southern highlands.
1387. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. Crtica a las concepciones de razas y clases en la
colonia, segn los historiadores nacionales, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Ed. Graba, 1986. 156 p.
A thoughtful analysis and digest of idiosyncratically selected literature on social and
economic history of the colonial period.
1388. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Historia general de la Repblica del Ecuador.
Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1890-1903. 7 v.
The classic Old Guard account of the pre-Hispanic and colonial periods. Primarily
concerned with political and ecclesiastical events yet notable for the inclusion of some
economic and social developments. Based on archival research in Ecuador, Spain,
Peru, and other countries. Sometimes described as having been issued in eight
volumes, depending upon the copy seen. In some sets the plates to the Atlas
arqueolgico were/are bound separately. Vol. 1 and accompanying Atlas arqueolgico
discourse on Tiempos antiguos, o, El Ecuador antes de la conquista. N.B. The
archbishop-historian was one of the advocates of Mayan influence on the culture and
languages of pre-Inca ethnic groups of Ecuador, especially of the coast. The Atlas
arqueolgico contains text as well as illustrations. Regardless of their artistic merit, the
latter are of no scientific importance, being reproductions of pen-and-ink drawings that
do not depict the original artefacts in detail or to scale. Vols. 2-5 are a detailed account
of the political and ecclesiastical history of the highlands and the coast with some
consideration of economic and social developments during the colonial period,
beginning with the Spanish conquest and terminating with the Presidency of the Barn
de Carondelet. Vol. 6 is given over to the history of the Oriente and vol. 7, to cultural
developments during the colonial period. Available in several reprints. See also the
archbishop-historians Historia eclesistica (item 5034) with which his Historia general
has been confused by some scholars.
Although Gonzlez Surez is one of the most important icons, if not the most import, of
modern Ecuadorian historiography, he has been praised and criticized far more often
than he has been read. In part this is because no textbook edition of his work exists
except for the Elementos de Historia general de la Repblica del Ecuador (Quito:
Prensa Catlica, 1915; iv, 148 p.), a question and answer primer on the prehistory of
the country. There is, however, an abridged version; see item 1452.
1389. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Obras escogidas, prlogo y seleccin del Sr. Dn.
Jacinto Jijn y Caamao. Quito: Impr. del Ministerio de Gobierno, 1944. li, 518 p.
Partial contents: Memorias ntimas; Notas arqueolgicas; Memoria histrica sobe
Muts y la expedicin botnica de Bogot; Un opsculo indito de don Francisco Jos
de Caldas; Manifiesto a los ecuatorianos.
1390. Guerra, Sabrina. Los ilegtimos de la sociedad colonial, Quitumbe, 9 (jun.
1995), 21-35.
A working paper on mestizos, the majority of whom appear to have been illegitimate,
according to quantitative and qualitative analysis of sample of 40 cases of petitions of
declaration of mestizaje presented between 1731 and 1797.
1391. Guerrero, Andrs. Los obrajes en la Real Audiencia de Quito en el siglo XVII y
su relacin con el Estado colonial, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 1:2 (1977), 65-89.
1392. Guerrero, Andrs; and Rafael Quintero. La transicin colonial y el rol del
Estado en la Real Audiencia de Quito, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 1:2 (1977),
13-57.
See also the Comentario by Fernando Velasco Abad (p. 59-63). Items 1391 and
1392 together with item 1532 are watersheds in Ecuadorian historiography because
Guerrero, Quintero, and Velasco, then young Turks, brought to bear concerns and
methods of the Social Sciences on the colonial period--previously the domain of
autodidacts and traditionalists, for the most part (at least within Ecuador itself), with little
or no interest in demographic, economic, or social history. Also published as: La
formacin y rol del Estado colonial en la Real Audiencia de Quito: algunos elementos
para su anlisis, Revista mexicana de sociologa, 39:2 (abr./jun. 1977), 611-674.
Subsequently Guerrero and Quintero devoted themselves primarily to the national
period and have produced some of the best studies on the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries heretofore done. The equally promising Velasco Abad, however, died the
following year.
1393. Guevara Gil, Armando; and Frank Salomon. A Personal Visit: Colonial Political
Ritual and the Making of Indians in the Andes, Colonial Latin American Review, 3:1/2
(1994), 3-36.
The visita in question is that of 1623 to the Collaguazos, a dispersed ethnic group in
and around Quito. Neither mitimaes nor forasteros, their paramount cacique apparently
resided in Pomasqui. What the authors are trying to tell us about how to read this and
other visitas is not altogether clear, but apparently Guevara-Gil and Salomon mean that
we should try and steep ourselves in the totality, not just the mentality, of the time and
place and then somehow recreate and explicate that decidedly other time and place in
postmodernistic qualitative discourse.
1394. Herrn Baquero, Maro. El virrey don Antonio Amar y Borbon: la crisis del
rgimen colonial en la Nueva Granada. Bogot: Banco de la Repblica, 1988. 368 p.
Includes a discussion of developments in the Presidency of Quito during Amars
viceregency.
1395. Herzog, Tamar. Los ministros de la Audiencia de Quito, 1650-1750. Quito:
Libri-Mundi Enrique Grosse-Luemern, 1995. 170 p.
A dictionary of presidents and oidores of the Audiencia during the second half of the
seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth. Organized alphabetically.
Each entry delineates career (in, before, and after being posted to Quito), family data,
and sources as appropriate. A basic reference.
1396. Herzog, Tamar. Sobre justicia, honor y grado militar en Quito, s. XVIII,
Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 6 (II sem. 1994), 49-57.
Examines claims of civilian presidents in the 1700s to title of captain general in addition
to those of president and governor general. Illumines overlapping concepts of justice,
honor, and military rank and therefore mentalities of period.
1397. Ibarra, Alexia. La condicin del mestizaje en el contexto de las reformas
borbnicas (segunda mitad del siglo XVIII), Quitumbe, 9 (jun. 1995), 55-75.
A solid but somewhat sketchy analysis of 274 petitions of declarations of mestizje
presented between 1780 and 1815, and the impact of the decree of 1764.
1398. Ibarra, Hernn. Haciendas y concertaje al fin de la poca colonial en el
Ecuador: (un anlisis introductorio), Revista andina, 6:11 (jul. 1988), 175-200.
Apparently a study of the Hacienda Chisinche.
1399. Imbernn, Jos Mara. La Real Audiencia de Quito: reflexiones en torno al
the impact of the Spanish conquest and the established colony on Indian societies and
polities by a leading ethnohistorian.
1448. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E. Sublevaciones indgenas en la Audiencia de Quito:
desde comienzos del siglo XVIII hasta finales de la colonia, 3 ed. corr. y aum. Quito:
Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1985. 453 p.
A revised edition of authors Ph. thesis, published under the same title: Bonn: Bonner
amerikanistische Studien, 1976. The first systematic study of Indian uprisings in the
highlands during the late colonial period. Comprehensive, well researched, and
methodologically sound. As of the late 1990s, no comparable work for either the
colonial period as a whole or the national period existed, but a more or less complete,
although not always reliable, summary of indigenous movements during the nineteenth
and the first half of the twentieth century could be found in an otherwise not
recommendable work, Oswaldo Albornoz Peraltas Las luchas indgenas en el Ecuador
(Guayaquil: Edit. Claridad , 1976; 226 p.).
1449. Mrner, Magnus. Aspectos socioraciales del proceso de poblamiento de la
Audiencia de Quito durante los siglos XVI y XVII, Homenaje a Jos Mara de la Pea y
Cmara (Madrid: Ediciones Porrua, 1969), p. 265-287.
Demonstrates that attempts of the early colonial period to resettle Indians into
reducciones were only partially successful in the highlands and that royal decrees
prohibiting Spaniards from residing in Indian pueblos were ignored. Reprinted in:
Memoria, MARKA, ao 1, no. 1 (nov. 1990), 43-56.
1450. Moscoso, M.C. Indgenas y ciudades en el siglo XVI, Las Ciudades en la
historia (item 558), p. 343-356.
As it turned out, this item should have been included under Historia urbana as it is a
study of the interaction between Spaniards and Andeans in Cuenca during the second
half of the sixteenth century.
1451. Moscoso C., Luca. Aproximacin al estudio de los diezmos en la Real
Audiencia de Quito, Quitumbe, 8 (jun. 1994), 127-140.
A preliminary study of tithes. As the late 1990s, only Andrien had also utilized tithe data
to examine the rural sector of the economy (see item 1343).
1452. Moscoso R., Leonardo. Compendio de la Historia general de la Repblica del
Ecuador. Ambato: Impr. y Librera Escolar de Ricardo Costales, 1920-1924. 3 v.
An abridgement of Gonzlez Surezs Historia general (item 1388)
1453. Moya Torres, Luz del Alba. Auge y crisis de la cascarilla en la Audiencia de
Quito, siglo XVIII, 1 ed. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede
Ecuador, 1994. 251 p.
Another original masters thesis from FLACSO. Outlines, to some extent fleshes out,
and analyzes what had been a virtually unknown chapter in the economic history of the
late colonial period, the trade in cinchona bark, the source of quinine. A solid study
based on research in archives of Cuenca and Quito.
1454. Muoz Borrero, Eduardo. Entonces fuimos Espaa, 1492-1822, 1 ed. Quito:
Edit. Grficas Iberia, 1989. 765 p.
A popular, semi-anecdotal history of the colonial and independence periods.
1455. Nueva Granada (Virreinato). Relaciones de mando de los virreyes de la Nueva
Granada: memorias econmicas, edicin preparada por Gabriel Giraldo Jaramillo.
Bogot: Banco de la Repblica, 1954. 283 p.
1456. Nueva Granada (Virreinato). Relaciones de los virreyes del Nuevo Reino de
Granada, ahora Estados Unidos de Venezuela, Estados Unidos de Colombia y
Ecuador ..., compiladas y publicadas por Jos Antonio Garca y Garca. Nueva York:
Impr. de Hallet & Breen, 1869. xx, 705 p.
Items 1455 and 1456, the latter of which is only partially superseded by the former, are
basic sources for the study of the administration of the Presidency of Quito during the
years it was subordinated to the Viceroyalty of New Granada (1717-1720 and 17391822). They also include demographic, economic, and social data.
1457. Nez Snchez, Jorge. Familias, elites y sociedades regionales en la
Audiencia de Quito, 1750-1822, Historia de la mujer y la familia (Quito: Editora
Nacional, 1991), p. 171-224.
A pioneering essay on the composition and renovation of the creole aristocracy during
the late colonial period, the differences in attitudes and ideologies of the elites by
region, and their respective roles in the movements for independence. Based almost
entirely on archival reseach either in the Archivo General de Indias itself or on Banco
Centrals microfilm copies of Archivo General de Indias materials. See also Nez
Snchezs Oligarquas regionales y familias oligrquicas en el Ecuador, 1765-1912,
Europa e Iberoamrica: cinco siglos de intercambios: actas, IX Congreso Internacional
de Historia de Amrica (Sevilla: Asociacin de Historiadores Latinoamericanos
Europeos [AHILA]; Consejera de Cultura y Medio Ambiente [Junta de Andaluca],
1992), vol. 1, p. 107-125. Although the latter is a notable attempt to examine a
neglected question, the relationship between regional oligarchies and oligarchy families,
unfortunately Nez Snchez puts the cart before the horse; he presupposes that the
basic characteristics of said families are known and that they were static. The former
was hardly true and the latter, fallacious.
1458. OPhelan Godoy, Scarlett. Rebeliones anticoloniales: Nueva Granada, Per y
Charcas entre el siglo XVIII y el XIX, Anuario de estudios americanos, 49 (1992), 395440.
Includes a discussion of the 1765 uprising of the barrios of Quito, other late colonial
rebellions in the highlands, and of the revolutions of 1809 and 1810-1812. See also
OPhelans Por el rey, religin y patria: las juntas de gobierno de 1809 en La Paz y
Quito, Bulletin de lInstitut franais detudes andines, 17:2 (1988), 51-80.
1459. Orden de traslado a Bogot del Archivo de la Real Audiencia de Quito, 1720,
ARNAHIS, 11:17 (ago. 1968), 4-6.
Fortunately this order was not implemented, but it is an interesting commentary on the
bureaucratic mentality of the empire and on what sometimes happened and still
happens to archives, reorganization and/or transfer to other repository.
1460. Ordez de Cevallos, Pedro. Viage del mundo. Madrid: Luis Snchez, 1614.
[10], 290, [4] leaves.
The memoirs and travelogue of a soldier turned priest who spent some years among
the Quijos, the Cofanes, and in the city of Quito during the late 1500s and early 1600s.
Invaluable but beware the element of fable. The corresponding chapters are
reproduced in: Cronistas coloniales (item 1318), vol. 2, p. 477-519; and the work as a
whole has been reprinted several times (e.g., Madrid: Aguilar, 1958).
1461. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Economie et socit Quito (1765-1810),
LAmrique espagnole lpoque des Lumires: tradition, innovation, reprsentations:
(Colloque franco-espagnol du CNRS, 18-20 septembre 1986) (Paris: Editions du Centre
National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1987), p. 161-176.
A cogent review of economic and social developments, especially in the highlands,
during the late colonial period. Based on appropriate literature as well as the authors
own considerable original research. Also published in Spanish as: Economa y
sociedad en Quito (1765-1810), La Amrica Espaola en el siglo de las luces:
tradicin, innovacin, representaciones: Coloquio franco-espaol, Maison des Pays
Ibriques, Burdeos, 18-20 septiembre 1986 (Madrid: Ediciones de Cultura Hispnica,
1988), p. 183-199.
1462. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Los encomenderos de Quito, 1534-1660:
origen y evolucin de una lite colonial. Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios
Hispanoamericanos, 1993. xvi, 377 p.
The first major study of encomienda holders in the highlands. A social history pieced
together from a wide variety of sources, mostly original. A remarkable tour de force
inasmuch as the majority of encomienda records per se for the Presidency of Quito do
not appear to have survived. Delineates and elucidates emergence of regional and
local elites during the first half of the colonial period. Well written, analyzed, and
interpreted but more in the way of time lines, especially in the genealogical tables and
discussion of encomendero families, would have been helpful.
1463. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Modelos peninsulares en la estratificacin
social del Ecuador, Europa e Iberoamrica: cinco siglos de intercambios: actas, IX
Congreso Internacional de Historia de Amrica (Sevilla: Asociacin de Historiadores
Latinoamericanos Europeos [AHILA]; Consejera de Cultura y Medio Ambiente [Junta
de Andaluca], 1992), vol. 1, p. 99-105.
An outline of the Spanish model of social stratification that implicitly, if not inevitably,
accompanied the Spaniards during the conquest of Quito and as it was subsequently
implemented during the early colonial period.
1464. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. El obraje colonial ecuatoriano: aproximacin
a su estudio, Revista de Indias, 37:149/150 (jul./dic. 1977), 471-541.
A major contribution to the economic history of the colonial period. Although not the
first study of the textile industry based on Archivo General de Indias materials, it was
the first professional study to utilize said sources and at the time of its publication, the
most methodologically sophisticated. Reprinted in: Revista ecuatoriana de historia
econmica, 2:4 (1988), 63-142.
1465. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Obrajes y obrajeros del Quito colonial,
Anuario de estudios americanos, 39 (1982), 341-365.
An insightful overview of textile manufacturing in the northern and central highlands.
Textiles were the motor of the economy of the northern and central highlands from the
1540s through the 1700s.
1466. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Las ordenanzas de obrajes de Matas de
Peralta para la Audiencia de Quito, 1621: rgimen laboral de los centros textiles
coloniales ecuatorianos, Anuario de estudios americanos, 33 (1976), 875-931.
Publishes and analyzes the 1621 ordenanzas de obrajes, a major source for the study
of the history of textile labor.
1467. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. Las instituciones y la administracin de la Real
Audiencia de Quito. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1975. 296 p.
A college level text. Of some usefulness as a handbook. Reprinted in a so-called 2
ed.: Guayaquil: Editorial UG, 1988. 287 p.
1468. Prez T., Aquiles R. Historia de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Romero,
1956. 214 p.
Notwithstanding the title, a survey of the colonial period. Notable because of the
extensive archival research on which it is based.
1469. Prez T., Aquiles R. Las mitas en la Real Audiencia de Quito. Quito: Impr. del
Ministerio del Tesoro, 1947. 536 p.
The pioneering and nowadays the classic work on the forced labor system in Ecuador.
Delineates and exemplifies the different kinds of mita to which indigenes were subject
during the colonial period. Based on considerable original research, especially in the
Archivo Nacional de Historia. Reprinted: Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1987.
1470. Phelan, John Leddy. The Kingdom of Quito in the Seventeenth Century:
Bureaucratic Politics in the Spanish Empire. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press,
1967. xvi, 432 p.
A pioneering study of the Antonio de Morga years (1615-1636). Although primarily
concerned with political developments, The Kingdom of Quito includes several chapters
on demographic and economic developments during the early colonial period. Also
published in a Spanish version: El Reino de Quito en el siglo XVII: la poltica
burocrtica en el imperio espaol. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de
Investigacin y Cultura, 1995. 531 p. (Coleccin histrica; vol. 20)
1471. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Caminos y medios de transporte en nuestro 1er siglo
colonial. [Guayaquil]: Comisin Permanente para la Defensa del Patrimonio Nacional,
1985. [35] p.
nos. 56 p.
Ecuadors first periodical as well as the organ of the short lived Sociedad Patritica de
Amigos del Pas de Quito. Largely authored by Eugenio Espejo, the papers editor.
Reprinted by the Archivo Municipal de Quito in facsimile in 1947 (Publicaciones del
Archivo Municipal; 23), and in modern typeface by the Museo de Arte e Historia in 1953
(Publicaciones del Museo Municipal de Arte e Historia; 29). Both reprints include the
Instruccin previa sobre el papel peridico, intitulado Primicias de la cultura de Quito
(Quito:[Impr.de] Raymundo Salazar, 1791; [5] p.) and the separately paginated
Suplemento al papel peridico: Primicias de la cultura de Quito del da 5 de enero de
1792 (11 p.).
1478. Quintero, Rafael. El estado colonial, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615),
vol. 5, p. 7-56.
A thoughtful and thought provoking review of the economic, political, and social
structures of the Presidency of Quito.
1479. Ramos Gmez, Luis J. La acusacin contra el Presidente electo Dn. Jos de
Araujo y Ro, sobre la introduccin de mercancas ilcitas a su llegada a Quito en
diciembre de 1736, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 72:163/154 (1989),
249-272.
Examines the undoubtedly true charges that President elect Araujo introduced
merchandise illicitly prior to and upon taking office. Perhaps the only novelty in the
charges is the amount and blatancy of the traffic. Inasmuch as Araujo donated
26,000 pesos--probably borrowed--to obtain the office, he needed to recover his
investment.
1480. Ramos Gmez, Luis J. El bien comn como pretexto del Presidente Jos de
Araujo para crear una compaa de soldados y prohibir el aguardiente de caa en
Quito en 1737, Revista andina, 11:22 (dic. 1993), 381-402.
President Araujo established a company of soldiers not only for his protection and that
of his spouse but to enforce the prohibition of the distillation and sale of sugar cane
aguardiente. Ramos Gmez agrees with Araujos detractors that the President was
less concerned with the public good than he was in lining Victorino Montero's and
indirectly his own pockets. Brother-in-law Victorino was the local distributer of grape
aguardiente.
1481. Ramos Gmez, Luis J. Dos pareceres sobre el salario de los mitayos de Quito
en 1735: el informe a la Audiencia de Martnez de Arizala, visitador de Cuenca, y el
parecer del fiscal Lujn, Histrica, 20:2 (dic. 1996), 271-283.
A well researched article on the divergent views of two members of the Audiencia
regarding the salary to be paid and treatment accorded mitayos. Understandably the
proposals of Lujn, the protector de naturales, were more favorable to mitayos than
those of Martnez de Arizala, who sided with the local elite, but they were based on
ordinances written for the Perus that had little or nothing to do with the realities of Quito.
1482. Ramos Gmez, Luis J. Un ejemplo de la lucha por el poder en Quito, Cultura,
The authors masters thesis. Based on research in the Archivo Nacional de Historia.
Exemplifies institutionalization of entitled estates through a study of the properties of
the Snchez de Orellana or marqueses de Solanda.
1524. Vargas, Jos Mara. Audiencia de Quito: residencias y visitas del siglo XVI,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 58:125 (ene./jun. 1975), 5-17; 58:126
(jul./dic. 1975), 52-61.
A brief review of judicial reviews of the early seventeenth century (i.e., through the
administration of President Morga [1614-1636]).
1525. Vargas, Jos Mara. Los cacicazgos, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 53:116 (jul./dic. 1970), 250-264.
Consists of miscellaneous research notes.
1526. Vargas, Jos Mara. Creacin de la Real Audiencia de Quito: su valor
histrico, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 45:102 (jul./dic. 1963), 193-201.
A utilitarian essay inasmuch as it delineates the cities and towns in the Governorships
of Popayn and Quito that were included in the new audiencia.
1527. Vargas, Jos Mara. Don Hernando de Santilln y la fundacin de la Real
Audiencia de Quito. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1963. 173 p.
A well documented study of the first president of the Audiencia of Quito and of the
establishment of the audiencia.
1528. Vargas, Jos Mara. La economia poltica del Ecuador durante la colonia.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Corporacin Editora Nacional, [1981]. 366 p.
(Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 15)
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1957. xvi, 322 p. The reprint
includes an Estudio introductorio by Carlos Marchn Romero (p. 13-58). The first and
as of July 1997, still almost the only economic history of the entire colonial period. The
only exception was item 687.
1529. Vargas, Jos Mara. Historia del Ecuador, siglo XVI. Quito: Pontificia
Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1977. 344 p.
As of July 1997, items 1528 and 1529 constituted the most detailed study of the first
half of the colonial period since Gonzlez Surezs Historia general de la Repblica del
Ecuador (item 1388). Quasi-modern in approach inasmuch as Father Vargas includes
some coverage of economic and social as well as cultural developments. Based on
several decades of research and reflection. Nonetheless, these two items are
chronicles, however modern, primarily of the city of Quito and the north-central
highlands, rather than true histories of the entire colony.
1530. Vargas, Jos Mara. Historia del Ecuador, siglo XVII. Quito: Editora Royal,
[1979]. 296 p.
Continues item 1529.
1531. Vela, Mara Susana. Mulato conocido y reputado por tal, Quitumbe, 9 (jun.
1995), 77-88.
A student paper on racial passing during the late colonial period. Interestingly enough
mulattoes found it legally and socially advantageous to petition to be recognized as
mestizos. Based on archival research.
1532. Velasco, Juan de. Historia del Reino de Quito en la Amrica Meridional. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1977-1979. 3 v.
One of the only two scholarly acceptable and apparently textually accurate versions (as
of July 1997) of this classic, late eighteenth-century history of pre-Hispanic and colonial
Ecuador by Quitos most famous Jesuit expulso. The other is the edition prepared by
Espinosa Plit for the Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima, (item 541). The Casa de la
Cultura version was prepared from one of the two known manuscript originals, the one
in the Real Academia de la Historia in Madrid, whereas Espinosa Plit worked from the
coeval copy now held by the Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Plit. There is
yet another modern edition, but it does not include the Historia natural: Caracas:
Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1981. Edicin. prlogo, notas y cronologa, Alfredo Pareja
Diezcanseco.
1533. Velasco Abad, Fernando. La estructura econmica de la Real Audiencia de
Quito: notas para su anlisis, Ecuador pasado y presente (item 572), p. 61-110.
A refreshingly novel essay for its time. Velasco Abad attempted to analyze the
economic structure of the colonial period in accordance with its internal realities and its
role within the economy of the Spanish empire at large. Also he recognized that the
Spanish sector of the economy of the Kingdom of Quito was at least quasi-capitalistic.
1534. Velasco y Unda, Ignacio de. El terremoto de 1797, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 47:104 (jul./dic. 1964), 228-242.
A detailed account of the earthquake of Feb. 4, 1797, by Josep M. Barnadas, who
reproduces the request for information on the disaster submitted by Velasco y Unda,
the procurator of the Cabildo of Riobamba, to the Corregidor of Riobamba. Hence the
confusion on the part of the editors of the Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia
as to the authorship of this piece. Includes a documentary appendix.
1535. Villalba F., Jorge. El licenciado Miguel de Ibarra: sexto presidente de la
Audiencia de Quito, su gobernador y capitn general, 1550-1608. Quito: Pontificia
Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1991. 442 p.
An in-depth study of Ecuador in the early 1600s as well as of the administration of the
sixth president of the Audiencia. Well researched but poorly proofed.
1536. Villalba F., Jorge. Los obrajes de Quito en el siglo XVII y la legislacin obrera,
Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 8 (1986), 43-212.
A data rich study on the trade in as well as manufacture of textile and on the various
attempts by viceroys, presidents, and oidores to mitigate the abuse of Indian labor in
the 1600s.
1537. Villalengua, Juan Josef. Relacin exacta y circunstanciada de todos los
empleos polticos de Real Hacienda y militares que hay en la ciudad de Quito y toda su
provincia ... (29 marzo 1790), Boletn del Archivo Nacional de Historia, 4:6 (ene./dic.
1956), 64-108; 5:7/8 (ene./jun. 1959), 6-36.
An audiencia wide register of royal and local bureaucrats as of 1790. Includes a muster
of the military.
1538. Villegas, Juan. Negros y mulatos esclavos: Audiencia de Quito. Montevideo:
Centro de Estudios de Historia Americana, 1992. 25 leaves.
Consists of research notes. Mimeographed.
1539. La Visita de Garca de Len y Pizarro a la Audiencia de Quito: (aporte
documental), [con una nota introductoria por] Eduardo Martir, Anuario histrico
jurdico ecuatoriano, 6 (1980), 323-344.
Publishes with an introduction the 7 Dec. 1782 Resolucin adoptada por la corona
acera de las medidas tomadas en la visita a la Audiencia de Quito por el Regente y
Visitador General don Jos Garca de Len y Pizarro.
1540. Vivanco, Carlos A. Anotaciones para los cacicazgos ecuatorianos, Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de Historia, 22:59 (ene./jun. 1942), 119-152.
1541. Vivanco, Carlos A. La Real Audiencia de Quito en el siglo XVI, Boletn del
Archivo Nacional de Historia, 1:1 (ene./jun. 1950), 7-21.
1542. Washburn, Douglas A. The Bourbon Reforms: A Social and Economic History
of the Audiencia of Quito, 1760-1810. 1984. xi, 281 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University
of Texas at Austin.
At the time of its presentation as well as in retrospect Washburns doctoral dissertation
was important only for some of the data, especially demographic and fiscal, it contains.
Washburn displays an inadequate grasp of the literature, including such critical studies
as those by Rosemary D.F. Bromley, Nicholas P. Cushner, and Javier Ortiz de la Tabla
Ducasse, on the late colonial period and of altogether too many important works on the
10 de agosto, and a tendency to wring far too much from the data. His analysis and
interpretation of demographic, economic, social, and political events and developments
in Quito per se and the north-central highlands are not only overdrawn but frequently
erroneous in light of what was known as well as unknown as of the early 1980s. His
discussions of the characteristics of the elite, the sales tax rebellion of 1765, and the
abortive rebellion of lords and lawyers of 1809 and Quitos subsequent attempt to
establish independence in 1810-1812 are especially weak and poorly nuanced. Also it
should be noted that although Washburn has something to say, sometimes of
significance, about what was happening in Cuenca and Guayaquil and their districts
during the late colonial period, The Bourbon Reforms is primarily about the city of
Quito and its district.
1543. Wenzel, Karl-Heinz. Wandel in der Landwirtschaft bei den Indianern in der
Audiencia de Quito im 16. Jahrhundert. Bonn: Holos, 1987. 162 p.
A masters thesis on the takeover of ayllu or community lands in the 1500s by
Spaniards and caciques. Done at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat in
Bonn.
1544. Wolf, Teodoro. Crnica de los fenmenos volcnicos y terremotos en el
Ecuador: con algunas noticias sobre otros pases de la Amrica Central y Meridional,
desde 1533 a 1797. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1904. 120 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1873. Also reprinted in: Anales de
la Universidad Central, 19:132 (oct. 1903), 26-40; 19:133 (nov. 1903), 78-99; 19:134
(dic. 1903), 37-177; 19:135 (ene. 1905), 223-264. A basic reference work.
1545. Ziga, Neptal. El camino de Quito a Tierra Firme, Revista de Indias, 9:33/34
(jul./dic. 1948), 891-948.
A comprehensive, well researched review of the several efforts of Quito to open a road
to Esmeraldas with emphasis on Maldonados project. See also item 3701.
BIBLIOGRAFIA HISTORICA
DEL ECUADOR
Vol. I
por
MICHAEL T. HAMERLY
PERIODO NACIONAL
As of the late 1990s, the political history of the national period, regardless of whether
the national period is defined as having begun in 1809, or in 1830, was well known and
had been recounted not just in considerable detail but multiple times, from the
conservative, the liberal, the socialist, and the communist points of views, and in a few
instances, more or less impartially and objectively. Moreover, the economic history of
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries had begun to be studied in depth.
Population history, however, had barely begun to be cultivated, and much of the social
history that had been done, suffers from a major ideological bias. Almost all the studies
by social scientists--regardless of nationality--and historians trained or influenced by
social scientists--and therefore virtually the entire cadre of professionally trained
historians in Ecuador as of the late 1990s--were predicated on Marxist or MarxistLeninist paradigms, not just in their assumption of the working out of the class struggle
whereby the triumph of the Liberals in 1895, for example, has been depicted as a
revolution during the course of which the capitalist bourgeoisie of the coast
displaced, if not overthrew, the traditional landowners of the highlands--the feudal
aristocracy according to some scholars--but in their assumption that the class structure
of the country existed and continues to exist primarily in political-economic terms.
I would be the last to deny that elites, bourgeoisie, petite bourgeoisie, proletarians, and
peasants exist in Ecuador, but I remain unconvinced that they exist as conceived by
Marx and Engels or by Marx, Engels, and Lenin. What were needed--desperately
needed, perhaps still needed --were/are analyses of the social structure that take into
account place as well as period, and the whole gamut of variables involved (i.e., age,
education, ethnicity, family, gender, income, lo andino, nationality as well as national
origin, occupational status, political power, the urban/rural dichotomy, etc.). In other
words, endogenous models based on Ecuadorian realities, not exogenous European
paradigms.
In fairness to national scholars, however, it cannot be overemphasized that as of the
late 1990s, original research, especially but not exclusively insofar as economic,
population, and social history are concerned, remained the province of the
independently wealthy (usually amateurs), on the one hand, and subsidized scholars,
on the other. But the months and years of archival, field, library, museum, and/or
private collection research required to produce historical demographic and/or social
historical studies do not usually appeal to financially well off amateurs--just as well
inasmuch as they lack the methodological training required to do such work--and the
subsidies (including full time, well paying, time release positions as well as grants)
required by professional researchers to undertake in depth, systematic, and long term
Ecuadorians had given, and may still give, short shift to the Gran Colombian years.
The most detailed, well researched, and objective accounts, again as of the late 1990s,
were those of the Argentine Jesuit Fazio Fernndez, El Guayaquil colombiano, 18221830 (item 1665) and the doctoral dissertation by the North American Roger P. Davis,
Ecuador under Gran Colombia (item 1623).
The history of Ecuador is even more intertwined with that of Colombia during the
independence period than it was during the colonial period. Fortunately there is a
relatively recent as well as comprehensive guide to the literature and published
sources: Javier Ocampo Lpezs Historiografa y bibliografa de la emancipacin del
Nuevo Reino de Granada (Tunja: Universidad Pedaggica y Tecnolgica de Colombia,
1969). And of course, one may update Ocampo Lpez through the pages of the
ongoing Handbook of Latin American Studies.
In addition to the individual and collected primary sources listed here within, it should be
noted that virtually every issue of the Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia and
of Museo Histrico contains documents of greater or lesser importance on the
independence and Gran Colombian years.
Almost all of the literature on the independence and Gran Colombian years focuses on
political developments. The most comprehensive coverage of demographic, economic,
and social developments for any of the three major regions continued to be Michael T.
Hamerlys Historia social y econmica de la antigua Provincia de Guayaquil, 1763-1842
(item 5976).
When I wrote the aforesaid work (in the early 1970s), originally presented as my
doctoral dissertation (in 1970), I deliberately chose not to be drawn into the controversy
regarding the encounter between Bolvar and San Martn in the port city in July 1822.
Most of the literature on the subject was and remains not just passionate but inflamed.
Now as then I refuse to be baited by this can of worms. Nonetheless, I have included
and annotated the more important of the relevant studies below, but do not pretend to
have resolved all of the bibliographic and substantive conundrums related thereto.
It will be noted that for the most part I have not listed works of fiction such as Manuel J.
Calles Leyendas del tiempo heroico: episodios de la guerra de la independencia.
Although such pseudo chronicles have passed as history among intellectuals as well as
the population at large, they are best forgotten. Nonetheless, their importance as
primary sources for the study of mentalits should not be overlooked.
1546. El 2 de agosto de 1810: la verdadera historia: (del archivo del Dr. Jos Gabriel
Navarro), Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 41:96 (jul./dic. 1960), 236-251.
Publishes miscellaneous primary sources from Navarros private collection.
1547. Achig S., Lucas. La estructura administrativa de la Gobernacin de Cuenca en
el siglo XIX (1820-1822), Revista del IDIS, 8 (abr. 1980), 43-82.
Reconstructs the political history of the Governorship of Cuenca during the two years
preceding Cuencas declaration of independence. Based on original research.
polemic provoked by Quito, luz de Amrica and its sequel, La revolucin quitea, see
item 1683.
1581. Borrero, Manuel Mara. La revolucin quitea, 1809-1812. Quito: Edit. Espejo,
1962. 454 p.
The rev. and aug. ed. of: Quito, luz de Amrica (item 1580).
1582. Breve relacin de los regocijos con que se recibieron y publicaron las
constituciones de la monarqua en 1813, [edicin de] Luis F. Borja (hijo), Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 24:64 (jul./dic. 1944), 327-344.
1583. Brice, Angel Francisco. El asesinato del General Sucre, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de la Historia (Caracas), 46:183 (jul./sept. 1963), 421-446.
Exonerates Flores.
1584. Burbano Vzquez, Jos Rafael. Adiciones histricas, Revista de la
Universidad de Cuenca, 15 (feb. 1935), 14-48.
Regarding the 1827 misunderstanding with Peru.
1585. Bushnell, David. The Santander Regime in Gran Colombia. Newark: University
of Delaware Press, 1954. ix, 381 p.
Also published in Spanish as: El rgimen de Santander en la Gran Colombia,
traduccin de Jorge Orlando Melo. Bogot: Ediciones Tercer Mundo: Facultad de
Sociologa, Universidad Nacional, 1966. 403 p. See especially chapter 19: The Plight
of Ecuador (p. 310-317) = La difcil situacin del Ecuador (p. 341-349).
1586. Caicedo, Manuel Jos. Viaje imaginario por las provincias limtrofes de Quito,
Cronistas de la independencia y de la Repblica (item 1607), p. 29-111.
An eye witness account of the events leading up to and culminating in the massacre of
Aug. 2, 1810, by a nephew of Bishop Cuero y Caicedo.
1587. Camacho Santos, Efran. Ciento cincuenta aos de existencia cvica
guayaquilea, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 53:115 (ene./jun. 1970),
26-46.
Notwithstanding the title, a synthesis of the movement for independence in Guayaquil.
1588. Carbia, Romulo D. San Martn y Bolvar, frente al hallazgo de nuevos
documentos: pruebas tcnicas de la autenticidad de los que diera a conocer el
embajador Eduardo L. Colombres Mrmol, y respuesta a las impugnaciones
formuladas contra ellos por don Vicente Lecuna, todas las cuales fueran aceptadas por
la Academia Nacional de la Historia, de Venezuela. Buenos Aires: Tall. Grf. de la
Compaa Gral. Fabril Financiera, S.A., 1941. 234 p.
Carbias attempt to justify his authentication of the Colombres Mrmol letters,
supposedly written by Bolvar, Sucre, and San Martn, regarding the 1822 meeting
between the Liberator and the Protector and Sucres opinion of San Martn as a military
leader, but considered to be apocryphal by almost everyone else, including apparently
the real Colombres Mrmol (see item 1839). See also items 1598, 1599, 1716, and
1804.
1589. Carrin, Agustn; and Rafael Riofro. Loja en la batalla de Pichincha (18221922). Loja: Impr. El Heraldo, 1922. 53 p.
1590. Carrin, Alejandro. La independencia de Loja, Revista del Archivo Nacional de
Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 5 (1985), 64-106.
Not just another eulogistic regurgitation, but a critical reexamination of political and
economic developments in Loja and its province during the 1820s, based on original
research.
1591. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Dos guayaquileos precursores de la independencia
americana: el Coronel Jacinto Bejarano y el egregio Jos de Antepara, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 9:25/26 (ene. 1959- dic. 1960), 107-120.
Also published as a separate: Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del
Guayas, 1963. 17 p.
1592. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Relatos de la revolucin de Octubre, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 53:116 (jul./dic. 1970), 153-159.
Regarding the three coeval accounts of Villamil (item 1889), Fajardo (item 1663), and
Roca (item 1840); reworked as the Introduccin to item 1695.
1593. Castillo, Abel Romeo. La versin guayaquilea oficial de la entrevista de
Guayaquil, Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1:2 (dic. 1972), 5-16.
Reproduces and analyzes the July 27, 1822 Suplemento al Patriota de Guayaquil, i.e.,
the issue containing the earliest version of the meeting between the Liberator and the
Protector.
1594. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. El 10 de agosto y nosotros, Anales de la
Universidad de Cuenca, 15:3/4 (jul./dic. 1959), 423-448.
An extended commentary on Borreros Quito, luz de Amrica (item 1580). Cevallos
Garca reminds Ecuadorians that independence although inevitable was not a simple
process and the men of August were neither heroes nor traitors but human beings
groping for solutions to complicated problems and complex issues. Reprinted in the
authors De aqu y de all: seleccin de artculos y estudios publicados en los ltimos
diez aos (Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1962), p. 331363. Also in his: Temas histricos ecuatorianos (item 217), vol. 2, p. 1-35.
1595. Coleccin de documentos para la historia de Colombia: (poca de la
independencia), compilados por Sergio Elas Ortiz. Bogot: Academica Colombiana de
Historia, 1964-1965. 2 v.
Includes many primary sources, especially vol. 1, relating to the movements for
independence in the future Ecuador.
1596. Coloma Coloma, Luis Fernando. La batalla de Camino Real: en el contexto
histrico de 1809 a 1822. Guaranda: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de
Bolvar, 1984. 32 p.
hijo de Guayaquil. Lima: Impr. del Estado, 1822. [3], 27, [2], 28-39, [2] p.
1611. Cubitt, David J. Economic Nationalism in Post-Independence Ecuador: The
Guayaquil Commercial Code of 1821-1825, Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv, N.F., 11:1
(1985), 65-82.
An insightful as well as original analysis of the ideological underpinnings and economic
ramifications of the yet to be recovered Cdigo de comercio of 1 Mar., 1821, the
provisions of which Cubitt reconstructs through collateral sources. Also published in
Spanish as: El nacionalismo econmico en la post-independencia de Ecuador: el
Cdigo de comercio de Guayaquil de 1821-1825, Revista ecuatoriana de historia
econmica, 1:2 (1987), 131-150.
1612. Cubitt, David J. The Government, the Criollo Elite and the Revolution of 1820 in
Guayaquil, Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv, n.f., 8:3 (1982), 283-295.
A well researched study of the port city and its province in the decade preceding the 9
de octubre. Argues that the colonial order was subverted by the controversy over the
Spanish constitution, problems with the administration of Indian tributes, and the
growing financial difficulties of merchants and planters.
1613. Cubitt, David J. Guerra y diplomacia en la Repblica de Guayaquil, 18201822, Revista de historia de Amrica, 72 (jul./dic. 1971), 391-411.
A succinct, well balanced review of the military-diplomatic situation of the Free Province
of Guayaquil. N.B. Taken together, items 1608-1613 apparently constitute a revision
of Cubitts doctoral dissertation on the 9 de octubre.
1614. Chacn Izurieta, Galo E. Historia militar del Ecuador: fragmento: guerra de la
independencia,1820-1823. Quito: Edit. Ena, 1978. 202 p.
Cover title: Historia militar del Ecuador, 1820-1823.
1615. Chaves, Julio Csar. La entrevista de Guayaquil. Buenos Aires: Edit.
Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1965. 107 p.
Chaves, a Paraguayan historian, defends the authenticity of the Lafond letter (i.e.,
San Martns letter of 29 Aug. 1822), published for the first time in French by Gabriel
Lafond de Lurcy in his Voyages autour du monde et naufrages clbres (Paris:
Administration de librarie, 1844), rejected by Vicente Lecuna (see item 1717), but
accepted by more objective scholars such as Gerhard Masur (see item 1748).
1616. Chiriboga, Manuel. Las fuerzas del poder durante el perodo de la
independencia y la Gran Colombia, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 6, p.
263-306.
Originally published as Las fuerzas del poder en 1830, Cultura, 2:6 (ene./abr. 1980),
171-208. See also the Crticas y comentarios (p. 209-225). An exceptionally
important essay inasmuch as Chiriboga examines the reasons why Ecuador became a
colony of itself in 1830 or rather why it did not emerge from the wars for independence
as a nation state but rather as an agglutination of heterogenous regions dominated by
local and regional elites.
Examines the role of Juan Jos Guerrero, the Marqus de Selva Florida, in the 10 de
agosto. Includes an appendix of sources.
1672. Flores y Caamao, Alfredo. Don Jos Meja Lequerica en las Cortes de Cdiz,
de 1810 a 1813. Barcelona: Casa Edit. Maucci, 1908. lx, 570 p.
1673. Flores y Caamao, Alfredo. Objeciones histricas a la obra intitulada: Angel
Grisanti. El gran Mariscal de Ayacucho y su esposa la Marquesa de Solanda. Caracas,
Impr. Nacional, 1955 y a tres anteriores del mismo origen. Lima: Edit. Salesiana,
1960. 390 p.
1674. Fuentes-Figueroa Rodrguez, Julin. La emancipacin del Ecuador: (el
Libertador y Sucre en el sur), 1 ed. Caracas: Grficas Herpa, 1974. 296 p. (Historia
general de Venezuela: documentos - narracin - crtica ; t. III)
This vol. covers Aug. 1822 through June 1823, and consists entirely of correspondence
of Bolvar, all of which has been published before elsewhere. A useful but hardly
indispensable compendium of primary source materials therefore.
1675. Gilmore, Robert L. The Imperial Crisis, Rebellion and the Viceroy: New
Granada in 1809, Hispanic American Historical Review, 40:1 (Feb. 1960), 1-24.
Examines the reactions of Bogot, Popayn, and Pasto to 10 de agosto in Quito.
1676. Gonzlez, Julio Csar. La misin Guido Luzuriaga a Guayaquil (1820), Boletn
del Instituto de Historia Argentina Doctor Emilio Ravignani, 2 ser., 13:22/23 (1970), 5116.
A solid study of initial relations between San Martn, in Lima, and the Provincia Libre de
Guayaquil.
1677. Gonzlez, Nicols Augusto. El asesinato del Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho. Lima:
Librera E. Moreno, 1901. 4 v.
A rambling and somewhat tendentious but heavily documented work that touches upon
many aspects of the independence, Gran Colombian, and early national periods.
Blames Flores for Sucres death. Also published in a 2 ed.: Quito: Tip. Escuela de
Artes y Oficios, 1906-Bogot: Impr. de La Luz, 1908. 2 v.
1678. Gray, William H. Bolvars Conquest of Guayaquil, Hispanic American
Historical Review, 27:4 (Nov. 1947), 603-622.
A solid study of the Liberators annexation of the Free Province of Guayaquil to his
Colombia. Based on published materials and research in the Archivo Diplomtico y
Consular in Bogot, a repository that appears to have been slighted by Ecuadorianists.
1679. Grisanti, Angel. El proceso contra los asesinos del Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho.
Caracas: Ediciones Garrido, 1955. 402 p.
Accuses Obando.
1680. Guerrero, Antonio Esteban. Carta sobre los sucesos del 10 de agosto,
ARNAHIS, 11:17 (ago. 1968), 108-110.
period as a whole.
1710. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Sociedad Econmica de Quito: proyecto de
colonizacin interna y de establecer un puerto libre en Esmeraldas, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 50:110 (jul./dic. 1967), 151-163.
Reprints with a substantial introduction the previously unregistered: Memoria de la
Sociedad Econmica de Quito, o, Reflecsiones sobre el camino de Esmeraldas,
presentadas a la Sociedad por Juan de Larrea y Villaviencio socio del nmero, el da
29 de abril de 1823 ... (Guayaquil: Impr. de la Ciudad por V. Duque, 1823).
1711. Larrea Alba, Luis. Sucre, alto conductor poltico y militar: la campaa libertadora
de 1821-1822. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1975. 226 p.
1712. Lavayen y Gorrichategui, Nicanor. Servicios militares del Coronel Francisco de
Paula Lavayen. Quito: Impr. de Valencia, 1856. 19 p.
1713. Le Gouhir Rodas, Jos Mara. El criminal de Barruecos: estudio analtico.
Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1930. viii, 267 p.
Also exculpates Flores.
1714. Le Gouhir, Jos Mara. Guayaquil independiente, o sea, El 9 de octubre de
1820: resea histrica. Guayaquil: Molestina, 1920. 102 p.
Le Gouhir never felt comfortable with the independence period and that which he wrote
on those years demonstrates it (see also item 2109).
1715. Lecuna, Vicente. Bolvar and San Martn at Guayaquil, Hispanic American
Historical Review, 31:3 (Aug. 1951), 369-393.
Translated by Harold C. Bierck, Jr. A convenient summary in English of Lecunas proBolvar writings regarding the Liberators annexation of the port city and its district and
of the one and only meeting between Bolvar and San Martn. That the incorporation
of Guayaquil into Colombia was accomplished through the decision of all the social
classes and especially of the masses . . . is an example of the hyperbole too many of
the traditional historians substituted for fact based on replicable research.
1716. Lecuna, Vicente. Cartas apcrifas sobre la conferencia de Guayaquil. Caracas:
Academia Nacional de la Historia, 1945. v, 210 p.
Regarding the allegedly fallacious documents published by Colombres Mrmol (padre)
in item 1598.
1717. Lecuna, Vicente. La entrevista de Guayaquil: restablecimiento de la verdad
histrica, compuesta con la colaboracin de Esther Barret de Nazaris, 3 ed. Caracas:
Ministerio de Educacin Nacional, Direccin de Cultura, 1952. 365 p.
Item 1717 is the third, considerably augmented, edition of item 1716. Generally
considered to be the best statement of Colombias position on Bolvars annexation of
Guayaquil and on the enigmatic meeting between Bolvar and San Martn. Lecuna
refutes the authenticity of the Colombres Mrmol letters, now generally agreed to
have been falsified, and the Lafond letter, generally agreed to have been authentic.
Heavily documented.
1718. Levi Castillo, Jos Roberto. En el bicentenario de Carlos Montfar: el
comisionado regio don Carlos Montfar, 1810-1816, Boletn de la Academia Nacional
de Historia, 63:135/136 (ene./dic. 1980), 105-136.
1719. Littuma Arzaga, Alfonso. Presencia del general Antonio Jos de Sucre, gran
mariscal de Ayacucho, en los territorios de la Real Audiencia de Quito. Quito: Edit.
Voluntad, 1981. 197, [2] p.
1720. Loja en la batalla de Pichincha, 1822-1922. Loja: Tip. El Heraldo, 1922. 53 p.
1721. Loor, Wilfrido. Guayaquil y Manab en 1820. Portoviejo: Edit. Gregorio, 1976.
162 p.
Especially valuable for its delineation of the role of subordinate Spanish towns and
Indian villages in the independence process.
1722. Loor, Wilfrido. La Provincia de Guayaquil en lucha por su independencia.
Portoviejo: Edit Gregorio, 1974. 90 p.
A solid account of political and military developments between the port citys declaration
of independence from Spain and the incorporation of the Free Province into Colombia
by Bolvar. Regarding the latter, including the activities of the peruanfilos, Loor is well
worth reading for the information and insights he added to the discussion.
1723. Lpez, Manuel Antonio. Recuerdos histricos del coronel Manuel Antonio
Lpez, ayudante del Estado Mayor Jeneral Libertador. Bogot: J.B. Gaitn, 1878.
xxiv, 224 p.
The memoirs of one of Bolvars aids. There are several later editions: e.g., Bogot:
Impr. Nacional, 1955.
1724. Lpez-Ocn Cabrera, Leoncio. El protagonismo del clero en la insurgencia
quitea (1809-1812), Revista de Indias, 46:177 (ene./jun. 1986), 107-167.
A detailed, well documented study of the major role played by the clergy in the 1809
and the 1810-1812 movements for independence. See also items 566, 1561, 1743,
1878, and 1881.
1725. Luna Tobar, Alfredo. El Ecuador en la independencia del Per. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1986. 3 v.
1726. Lloret Bastidas, Antonio. Doa Manuela Garaicoa de Caldern, su familia y su
actuacin patritica, Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de
Cuenca, 46 (1981), 11-39.
1727. Mrquez, Ezequiel. El coronel don Andrs de Santa Cruz en Cuenca, Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 7:20 (nov./dic. 1923), 292-313.
Also published as a separate: Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1924. 22 p.
1728. Mrquez, Ezequiel. Conducta poltica y moral del secular y regular de Cuenca y
Loja en 1825-1826. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1926. 17 p.
(ene./jun.1962), 33-59.
1741. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Centenario de la batalla de Tarqui. Cuenca:
Sarmiento, 1929. 102 p.
1742. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. La Gran Bretaa en la emancipacin de Sud
Amrica: Coronel Diego Stacey Byron, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 178-192.
1743. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Ilmo. seor obispo de la Dicesis de Santa Ana de
los Ros de Cuenca, doctor Andrs Quintn Ponte y Andrade: gestor de la
contrarevolucin del glorioso 10 de agosto de 1809 en Cuenca, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 51:95 (ene./jun. 1960), 81-105.
Well documented.
1744. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. El proceso criminal de la revolucin del 10 de agosto
de 1809 de Quito, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 12:29/30 (1960),
111-121.
1745. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Tarqui, 1829-1929. Cuenca: [s.n.], 1929. 369 p.
Includes a biographical dictionary of the participants in the battle.
1746. Martnez Delgado, Luis. Hacia Berruecos: el general Jos Mara Obando.
Bogot: Edit. El Grfico, 1946. 333 p.
Exonerates Obando, accuses Flores. Originally announced to be a two volume study,
the second part finally appeared nearly twenty years later under a different title:
Berruecos: asesinato del Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho, ordenado por el general Juan
Jos Flores (Medelln: Edit. Bedout, 1973).
1747. Ms sobre el prcer Quiroga, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia,
31:78 (jul./dic. 1951), 284-291.
1748. Masur, Gerhard. The Conference of Guayaquil, Hispanic American Historical
Review, 31:2 (May 1951), 189-229.
Probably as objective a study as is ever likely to exist of what is known and what may
reasonably be concluded regarding the meeting between Bolvar and San Martn. Also
a useful commentary on the historiographic controversy generated by Colombres
Mrmol and by Lecuna regarding the Lafond letter (see items 1599, 1716, and 1717).
1749. Matovelle, Julio Mara. La independencia de Cuenca: el 3 de noviembre de
1820. Cuenca: Veintimilla, 1927. 27 p.
1750. McGann, Thomas F. The Assassination of Sucre and Its Significance in
Colombian History, 1828-1848 Hispanic American Historical Review, 30:3 (Aug. 1950),
269-289.
An objective review of the evidence regarding the culpability or lack thereof of Jos
Mara Obando and Juan Jos Flores in the June 4, 1830 murder of Antonio Jos de
Sucre. McGann concludes that Obando ordered the assassination of Marshall Sucre
and that whatever his other crimes, the Ecuadoran dictator need not bear the
unsupported charge of having murdered the man at whose side he fought through
years of war, and with whom he stood as a friend in time of peace. See also the
exchange between Luis Martnez Delgado and McGann in: Hispanic American
Historical Review, 31:3 (Aug. 1951), 520-529.
1751. Meja, Jos. Discursos de don Jos Meja en las cortes espaolas de 1810-13,
con un prlogo histrico por Camilo Destruge. Guayaquil: Tip. de El Vigilante, 1909.
xxiii, 128 p.
1752. Mritos y servicios del Coronel Feliciano Checa: documentos inditos, que,
con una introd., publica L.F. Borja (hijo), Boletn de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de
Estudios Histricos Americanos, 2:5 (mar./abr. 1919), 220-229.
Reprinted as a separate: Quito: L. Barba V., 1919. 42 p.
1753. Moncayo, Hugo. Algunos datos sobre el Dr. Juan Pablo Arenas, prcer
guayaquileo del 10 de agosto, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 54:118
(jul./dic. 1971), 286-310.
1754. Moncayo, Hugo. Lo desconocido en la batalla de Pichincha, Revista de la
Sociedad Bolivariana de Venezuela, 25:87 (1966), 382-388.
1755. Moncayo, Hugo. La batalla de Pichincha, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
la Historia (Caracas), 57:225 (ene./mar. 1974), 85-96.
1756. Moncayo, Hugo. Un quiteo, protomrtir de la independencia americana: don
Antonio de Villavicencio, Museo Histrico, 51 (1971), 181-193.
See also pp. 194-232 of the same issue of Museo Histrico for Documentos sobre el
protomrtir don Antonio de Villavicencio.
1757. Moncayo, Hugo. En homenaje al sesquicentenario de la batalla de Pichincha,
Boletn de historia y antigedades, 59:693/695 (jul./sept. 1972), 435-450.
1758. Moncayo, Hugo. Sacrificios y padecimientos de Quito despus de Pichincha,
Boletn histrico (Caracas), 11:31 (ene. 1973), 60-66.
1759. Moncayo, Pedro. Ecuador, el 10 de agosto de 1809 y el ciudadano Vicente
Rocafuerte, Museo Histrico, 48 (ago./sept. 1970), 1-20.
Reprint; originally published: Santiago de Chile: Impr. de la Libertad, 1868.
1760. Monge, Celiano. Adhesin de Ambato a la Junta Suprema de Quito (1809).
Ambato: Instituto Martnez, 1920. 31 p.
1761. Monge, Celiano. Episodios de la independencia, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 10:27/29 (ene./mayo 1930), 125-136.
1762. Monge, Celiano. La independencia de Cuenca. Quito: Casa Edit. de Ernesto
Monge, 1915. 11 p.
1763. Monge, Celiano. El primer combate de Huachi, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 11:30/32 (jun./dic. 1930), 81-88.
10 de agosto de 1809" in the Aug. 10, 1886 issue of El Progreso (Cuenca), and was
therefore one of the first scholars to lay the foundation for the scientific study of the
beginnings of the movement for independence in Ecuador.
1776. Muoz Vicuna, Elias. De la primera a la segunda independencia. Guayaquil:
Edit. Claridad, 1970. 34 p.
1777. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Acta de la Junta de Guerra formada por los Generales
Sucre, Alvarado, Santa Cruz, Pinto y Lara en 1823, Boletn de la Academia Nacional
de Historia, 7:19 (sept./oct. 1923), 284-253.
1778. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Lecturas patriticas del sesquicentenario, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 39:94 (jul./dic. 1959), 284-286.
1779. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Rectificando la historia, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 45:101 (ene./jun. 1963), 100-111.
An essay on monarchists and republicans during the period of the second Junta of
Quito.
1780. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Reformas a la enseanza de la historia patria segn los
ltimos documentos, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 44:100 (jul./dic.
1962), 161-165.
1781. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. La revolucin de Quito del 10 de agosto de 1809, 1 ed.
Quito: Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1962. x, 532 p. (Plan Piloto del
Ecuador; 6)
A well documented and relatively dispassionate study of the abortive rebellion of lords
and lawyers.
1782. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. La segunda revolucin de Quito del ao 1810, Museo
Histrico, 39/40 (jun. 1961), 93-126.
1783. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. La verdad de nuestra historia: el primer grito de agosto
de 1809 no fue ninguna mascarada con lo que los prceres ocultaban sus intenciones,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 48:106 (jul./dic. 1965), 199-201.
Reprint; originally published in: El Comercio (Quito; 22 ago. 1965). Navarros final
statement on the 10 de agosto and his penultimate publication. He died the evening
before it appeared (Aug. 21). For Navarros final work, published posthumously, see
item 3940.
1784. Nueva Granada (Virreinato). Los ltimos virreyes de Nueva Granada: relacin
de mando del virrey don Francisco Montalvo y noticias del virrey Smano sobre la
prdida del reino (1803-1819). Madrid: Edit. Amrica, 1918. 226 p.
1785. Nez del Arce, Ramn, Informe del procurador general Ramn Nez del
Arce, [edicin y introduccin de] Isaac J. Barrera, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 20:56 (jul./dic. 1940), 231-281.
The informe is from 20 ene. 1813.
1786. Nez Snchez, Jorge. El Ecuador en Colombia, Nueva historia del Ecuador
(item 615), vol. 6, p. 211-261.
An important essay given the neglect of the Gran Colombian years in Ecuadorian
historiography. Unfortunately, however, Nez Snchez limited his account to politics
and personages.
1787. Obando, Jos Mara. El general Obando a la Historia crtica del asesinato del
Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho. Lima, 1847. 243 p.
Refutes Antonio Jos de Irisarris Historia crtica del asesinato cometido en la persona
del Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho (item 1697).
1788. OLeary, Daniel Florencio. Memorias del General OLeary, publicadas por su
hijo Simn OLeary. Caracas: Impr. de la Gaceta Oficial, 1880-1888. 32 v.
A basic collection of source materials on the movements for independence in what are
now Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.
1789. Olmedo, Jos Joaqun. Jos Joaqun Olmedo: epistolario, prlogo y seleccin
de Aurelio Espinosa Plit. Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1960. 619 p. (Biblioteca
ecuatoriana mnima; [13])
The first major and as of the late 1990s, the only comprehensive collection of Olmedos
letters. Includes many never before published dispatches.
1790. Olmedo, Jos Joaqun. Jos Joaqun Olmedo: poesa, prosa, estudio y
selecciones de Aurelio Espinosa Plit. Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1960. 531 p.
(Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima; [12])
Includes the bard of Junns political speeches and writings as well as his poems and
literary essays.
1791. Ornstein, Leopoldo R. La campaa de Quito (1822): Riobamba y Pichincha,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia (Buenos Aires), 45 (1972), 411-426.
1792. Ortiz, Sergio Elas. Agustn Agualongo y su tiempo. Bogot: Edit. ABC, 1958.
510 p.
A well documented study of the beginnings of the movement for independence in Pasto
and that movements relationship with Quitos 10 de agosto.
1793. Ortiz, Sergio Elas. La Brigada Santa Cruz, Boletn de la Academia Nacional
de Historia, 33:81 (ene./jun. 1953), 47-61.
1794. Ortiz, Sergio Elas. Neograndinos en la revolucin de Quito, Boletn de historia
y antigedades, 31:353/354 (marzo/abril 1944), 244-251.
1795. Ortiz Villacs, Marcelo. Origen del poder poltico en el Ecuador. Quito: Grficas
San Pablo [para] M. Ortiz Villacs, 1995. 164 p.
More concerned with political developments in the mother country and relations
between Spain and the colonies during the years of insurgence (1808-1824) than with
what was happening in the future Ecuador.
Consists of tidbits on individuals whose name began with Jos who participated in the 9
de octubre.
1815. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Composicin del poder judicial en el Estado de
Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Impr. de la Universidad, 1953. 12 p.
1816. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Don Antonio Nario estuvo preso en Guayaquil, Revista
de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 2 poca, 1:1 (1958), 79-89.
1817. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Dos cartas inditas de Olmedo, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 9:21/22 (1952), 165-169.
1818. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. En Guayaquil se jur la constitucin espaola de 1812,
Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 21:38 (1971), 159-164.
At head of title: Trozos de historia colonial.
1819. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Un escao en las cortes espaolas, Boletn del Centro
de Investigaciones Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 151-156.
Regarding the election of Olmedo to the Cortes of Cdiz.
1820. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. La revolucin de octubre de 1820 en el Diario del Virrey
de la Pezuela: versin y notas, Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 2 poca, 4:5
(dic. 1967), 113-142.
1821. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Las visitas de Lord Cochrane a Guayaquil: sus
relaciones con la Junta Suprema de Gobierno presidida por Olmedo, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 25:42 (1975), 145-154.
1822. Pino Roca, J. Gabriel. 1820: antecedentes, los conjurados para la
independencia, el 9 de octubre, Ejrcito Nacional (Quito), 1:7 (1922), 492-499.
1823. Plan de gobierno de la Provincia Libre e Independiente de Cuenca, Revista del
Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 1 (1979), 194-209.
1824. Ponce Ribadeneira, Alfredo. Quito, 1809-1812: segn los documentos del
Archivo Nacional de Madrid. Madrid: A. Ponce Ribadeneira, 1960. 299 p.
One of the few works on the early years of the independence period that utilizes
sources from the mother country. Includes an extensive appendix of documents (p.
133-293).
1825. Pozo Astudillo, Ren. Batalla de Pichincha. Quito: Consejo Provincial de
Pichincha, [1989?]. 163 p.
A prize winning essay on the military engagement.
1826. Precursores, estudio, selecciones y notas de Leopoldo Bentes Vinueza.
Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1960. 711 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima; [10])
Selections from the writings of Eugenio Espejo and Jos Meja with an excellent
introductory study by Bentes Vinueza (item 3065). See also item 3064.
1827. La Presidencia de Quito, 1822, introduccin de Alfredo Costales S. Quito: Casa
1842. Rojas, Ricardo. La entrevista de Guayaquil. Buenos Aires: Edit. Losada, 1950.
365 p.
Considered by Gerhard Masur to be the best documented investigation stemming from
the Argentine point of view. It is thorough, comprehensive, and judicious . . .
1843. Romero Arteta, Oswaldo. Episodios olvidados de la campaa de Pichincha,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 38:91 (ene./jun. 1958), 98-106.
1844. Romero Len, Remigio. La emancipacin de Cuenca: 4 de noviembre de 1820.
Cuenca: [s.n., 1920?]. 87 p.
1845. Rubio Siliceo, Luis. La revolucin de Quito de 1809 y la independencia de la
Amrica Espaola. Mxico, D.F.: Edit. Mxico, 1925. 44 p.
1846. Rumazo Gonzlez, Jos. El 10 de agosto de 1809: primer grito de la
independencia hispanoamericana, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 40:4
(jul./dic. 1959), 135-147.
1847. Rumazo Gonzlez, Jos. Guayaquil alrededor de 1809, Revista de Indias, 5:18
(oct./dic. 1944), 631-680.
Important as a portrait of the port city on the eve of independence as well as for the
insight it provides as to why guayaquileos supported the crown during the beginnings
of the movement for independence in Ecuador. Also published in: Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 25:66 (jul./dic. 1945), 220-252.
1848. Senz, Manuela. Epistolario de Manuela Senz, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 26:68 (jul./dic. 1946), 228-245.
Published by Luis Felipe Borja, hijo.
1849. Senz, Manuela. Epistolario indito de doa Manuela Senz, Boletn del
Instituto Nacional Meja , 2:11/12 (ene./feb. 1934), 59-68.
Published by Hugo Moncayo.
1850. Salazar y Lozano, Agustn. Recuerdos de los sucesos principales de la
revolucin de Quito: desde el ao de 1809 hasta el de 1814. Quito: Impr. de Valencia,
1854. 158, 3 p.
One of the few memoirs by a surviving participant.
Reprinted: Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1910; and in: Museo Histrico,
5:17 (sept. 1953), 71-125.
1851. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Los acontecimientos del 10 de agosto, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 40:94 (jul./dic. 1959), 265-279.
1852. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Bolvar y Rocafuerte: unitarismo y federalismo, Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 66:141/142 (ene./dic. 1983), 43-64.
1853. Salvador Lara, Jorge. La documentacin sobre los prceres de la
independencia y la crtica histrica. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1958. 94 p.
A major, but far from exhaustive, analysis of primary and second sources for the study
of the 10 de agosto. Also published in: Museo Histrico, 10:30 (1958), 12-78. And
reprinted in: La patria heroica (item 1853), p. 85-136.
1854. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Los granaderos a caballo de San Martn en la batalla de
Riobamba, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 61:131/132 (ene./dic. 1978),
151-172.
1855. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Notas acerca del pensamiento de los prceres quiteos
de 1809, Revista de historia de Amrica, 99 (ene./jun. 1985), 41-53.
1856. Salvador Lara, Jorge. La patria heroica: ensayos crticos sobre la
independencia. Quito: Ediciones Quitumbe, 1961. 246 p.
An anthology of some of Salvador Laras writings on the 10 de agosto, the 2 de agosto,
Espejo, and Vicente Rocafuerte y la revolucin de 1809.
1857. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Trascendencia nacional y continental de la batalla de
Pichincha, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 55:119 (ene./jun. 1972), 2550.
1858. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Humboldt en Guayaquil: su aporte a la emancipacin,
Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 6:8 (dic. 1969), 81-87.
1859. Stevenson, William Bennett. Relacin histrica de la conspiracin y
revoluciones que tuvieron lugar en Quito desde el ao de 1808 hasta 1810, Mensaje
de la Biblioteca Nacional, 8/9 (oct. 1938), 130-135; 10/11 (jul. 1940), 7-29.
Stevenson was Ruz de Castillas secretary. The translation of this excerpt is available
in several editions: Guayaquil, 1884; Quito, 1938; and Quito, 1941. For the work as a
whole see item 7445.
1860. Sucre, Antonio Jos de. Cartas de Sucre al Cor. Vicente Aguirre (1823-1830),
Museo Histrico, 23 (mayo 1956), 1-289.
1861. Sucre, Antonio Jos de. Cartas del Mariscal de Ayacucho a la Municipalidad de
Quito, Museo Histrico, 23 (mayo 1956), 309-356.
Correspondence from 1822-1825.
1862. Tern, Francisco. El ambito geogrfico de la Audiencia de Quito el ao de su
emancipacin, Revista ecuatoriana de educacin, 11:49 (ene./dic. 1959), 30-75.
1863. Tobar, Carlos R. Relacin de un veterano de la independencia. Quito: Crculo
de Lectores, 1987. 283 p.
Sometimes cited as a primary source, but in fact a historical novel by Carlos Rodolfo
Tobar Guarderas (1854-1920), a physician.
1864. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Causas y antecedentes de la separacin del Ecuador,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 11:30/32 (jul./dic. 1930), 5-31.
On Ecuadors separation from Colombia. Reprinted in the authors Monografas
histricas (item 2198), p. 5-44.
1865. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Dos documentos memorables: (la carta de 1812 y el
proyecto de Miranda), Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 43:98 (jul./dic.
1961), 141-153.
1866. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La independencia, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 33:82 (jul./dic. 1953), 145-171.
1867. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La transformacin de 1809 fue eminentemente jurdica,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 41:95 (ene./jun. 1960), 5-21.
Maintains that Quito had a legal right to become self governing. But Tobar Donoso like
the majority of Ecuadorian historians has missed the point. It was not political ideology
that underlay the 10 de agosto but the desire of the nobility of Quito to join political
power to economic wealth and social status.
1868. Tobar Garcs, L. Investigaciones histricas acerca del prcer Vicente
Bustamante, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 307-314.
1869. Toro Ruiz, Isaas. Actores del doce de noviembre. Ambato: Impr. El Pueblo,
1953. 29 p.
Biographical sketches of the prceres who attached the royal garrison in Ambato on
Nov. 12, 1820.
1870. Toro Ruiz, Isaas. Los actores del once de noviembre en Latacunga, Ejrcito
Nacional (Quito), 6:42 (1928), 407-412.
1871. Toro Ruiz, Isaas. Ambato en Tarqu. Ambato: Impr. Municipal, 1941. 26 p.
1872. Toro Ruiz, Isaas. Batallones ecuatorianos en la independencia. [Ambato]:
Impr. Amrica, 1940. 52 p.
1873. Toro Ruiz, Isaas. Ms prceres de la independencia: otros complementos y
rectifications. Latacunga: Impr. del Colegio Vicente Len, 1934. iii, 359 p.
Supplements and corrects Andrades Prceres de la independencia (item 1552).
1874. Tovar Ariza, Rafael. Causas econmicas, polticas, sociales y culturales de la
disolucin de la Gran Colombia, Revista de las Indias (Bogot), 2:8 (ene. 1938), 73107.
1875. Las Tres campaas del norte: campaa de Quito, 1820-1822: guerra con la
Gran Colombia, 1828-1829: expedicin de Castilla al Ecuador, 1858. Lima: Impr. del
Servicio de Intendencia y Transportes, 1931. 112 p.
1876. Tres documentos para la historia de la nacionalidad ecuatoriana, [edicin de]
L.F. Borja, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 14:40/41 (jul./dic. 1936), 117124.
Publishes for the first time: 1) Ruz de Castillas appointment as president of the
Audiencia of Quito (1807); 2) the Junta Superior Gubernativas declaration of autonomy
(1810); and 3) Quitos declaration of independence (1811). Also published as a
separate: Quito: Escuela Tip. Salesina, 1937. 8 p.
1877. Urquiza Anchorena, Vctor de. Nuevos antecedentes sobre el secreto hispanoamericano de la entrevista de Guayaquil: en su 140 conmemoracin, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 9:25/26 (1960), 3-41.
Emphasizes the role of Freemasonry in the movements for independence. Also
published as a separate: Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del
Guayas, 1963.
1878. Valencia Llano, Alonso. Elites, burocracia, clero y sectores populares en la
independencia quitea (1809-1812), Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 3 (II
sem. 1993), 55-101.
A prosopographic study of titled nobility, military officers, and clergy, (royalist/loyalist as
well as patriot/insurgent) of late-colonial and early- independent Quito. Sheds
considerable light on motivations and actions of the men of August. An original and
significant contribution to the historiography of the beginnings of the movements for
independence.
1879. Vargas, Francisco Alejandro. Guayaquil y sus libertadores. Caracas: Archivo
General de la Nacin, 1970. 161 p.
Consists of a set of essays on the Provincia Libre and the Venezuelan born Len de
Febres Cordero, Luis de Urdaneta Fara, and Miguel de Letamendi.
1880. Vargas, Jos Mara. Aspectos econmico-sociales del perodo de la
independencia ecuatoriana, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 51:111
(ene./jun. 1968), 5-19.
The late Vargas was one of the few traditional historians to examine economic and
social developments and events. This pioneering, now seminal essay necessarily takes
in developments of the late-colonial period.
1881. Vargas Ugarte, Ruben. El episcopado en los tiempos de la emancipacin
sudamericana, 3 ed. Lima: R. Vargas Ugarte, 1962. 462 p.
See chapter five (p. 105-124) on the roles of the bishops of Quito and Cuenca in the
movements for independence.
1882. Vega, Primo de. El Ecuador en la campaa libertadora del Per, 1822-1826.
Quito: Impr. Ziga, 1957. 203 p.
Consists primarily of source materials.
1883. Vega Ugalde, Silvia. Cuenca en los movimientos independientistas, Revista
del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 6 (1986), 9-48
1884. Velsquez, Csar Vicente. El 10 de agosto: leyenda y verdad histrica. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1968. 141 p.
1885. Velastegu, Mlida. Los realistas en la revolucin de Quito de 1809, Quitumbe,
4:4 (1976), 19-33.
1886. Vlez Merino, Rafael. Estudios de historia patria: el 21 de abril de 1822 en
Riobamba y don Pedro Vicente Maldonado, patriota y educador. Quito: Impr. Piedra,
1922. vi, 91 p.
1887. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. Don Jos de Antepara y la primera constitucin
poltica de Guayaquil, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 53:115 (ene./jun.
1970), 11-16.
Maintains that Antepara coauthored with Olmedo the Reglamento provisorio de
gobierno.
1888. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. Rocafuerte y Olmedo: diplomticos al servicio de
la revolucin hispanoamericana en Europa, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa,
20:37 (1970), 263-275.
1889. Villamil, Francisco Jos de. Resea de los acontecimientos polticos y militares
de la Provincia de Guayaquil desde 1813 hasta 1824, inclusives. Lima: Impr. de El
Cefiro, 1863. vi, 45, vii, ii p.
One of three coeval accounts (see also items 1663 and 1840). Reprinted: Quito:
Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1909; Guayaquil: Tip. de la Sdad. Filantrpica, 1937.
1890. Vivanco, Carlos A. La conjuracin del 25 de septiembre, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 10:27/29 (ene./mayo 1920), 44-124.
1891. Vivanco, Carlos A. Despus de Pichincha: el Coronel Cayetano Cestari en la
campaa de 1822, Museo Histrico, 41/42 (1962), 193-214.
1892. Vivanco, Carlos A. El Ecuador en la independencia de Amrica, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 21:58 (jul./dic. 1941), 177-210.
1893. Vivanco, Carlos A. El general Antonio Jos de Sucre en la campaa del
Ecuador, 1821-1822. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1920. 35 p.
1894. Vivanco, Carlos A. La gratitud del Ecuador al Libertador Simn Bolvar, Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 11:30/32 (jun./dic. 1930), 117-184.
1895. Vivanco, Carlos A. Participacin del Departamento del Ecuador en la guerra de
la Gran Colombia con el Per, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 16:46/49
(jul./dic. 1937), 5-61; 18:54 (jul./dic. 1939), 59-108; 19:55 (ene./jun. 1940), 29-67.
An essay regarding the boundary conflict of 1829 and the battle of Tarqu.
1896. Ziga, Neptal. Historia de Latacunga: independencia. Quito: Tall. Grf.
Nacionales, 1968. 2 v.
A comprehensive account of the participation of Latacunga in the movements for
independence, from 1809 through 1822. Based on original research. Extensively
documented.
1897. Ziga,Neptal. Historia de la independencia de Amrica Latina: movimientos
precursores. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1975. 2 v.
In this work Ziga adopted the extremist, albeit hardly unique, position that the
movement for independence in Ecuador began with the rebellion of the encomenderos
in the sixteenth century. In the process, however, he has much to say of interest about
the Spanish conquest of the Tahuantinsuyu, especially of the Kingdom of Quito, and
the subsequent civil wars between the conquistadores. Based on considerable archival
research, mostly in Spain.
HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF ECUADOR
Vol. II
by
Michael T. Hamerly
BIOGRAPHIES
Nunca Quito dio un figura mayor [que Gonzlez Surez], en toda su historia. Ah hubo una
gran inteligencia, expresada con inmensa lucides; sabidura, sensibilidad potente, suma vigilancia
de la forma; las corrientes mentales siempre en altura, la voz sentenciosa, el espritu en
permanente diafanidad ...--Alfonso Rumazo Gonzlez
2974. Agramonte y Pichardo, Roberto. Biografa del dictador Garca Moreno: estudio
psicopatologico e histrico. Havana: Cultural, 1936. 277 p.
Anti-Garca Moreno. Employs a pseudo-psychological approach.
2975. Aguado Cantero, Rodolfo; and Jorge Alvarez Fernndez. Juan Jos Flores: el
fundador de Ecuador. Madrid: Anaya, 1988. 126 p.
A popular biography.
2976. Aguilar, Antonio. El coronel don Francisco E. Tamariz, Revista del Centro de
Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 7 (abr. 1923), 288-292.
2977. Aguilar Paredes, Jaime. Grandes personalidades de la patria ecuatoriana: galera
biogrfica, 2 ed. Ambato: Edit. Pio XII, 1979. 374 p.
2978. Albornoz, Miguel. Orellana, el caballero de las Amazonas. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1987. 219 p. (Coleccin histrica; 11)
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Ediciones de Ultimas Noticias, 1946. 232 p. A
journalistic view of Orellana by an uncritical admirer. Relatively complete, but undocumented.
2979. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Alberto Muoz Vernaza. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1969. 216 p.
A solid, relatively objective life of one of Cuencas most distinguished scholars. Includes a
substantial chapter on Muoz Vernaza as a historian (p. 113-186). N.B. Not all of Muoz
Vernazas oeuvre has been reprinted, having originally appeared in various newspapers and
periodicals of the late nineteenth century for the most part.
2980. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Alfonso Moreno Mora: el poeta exiliado en el ensueo y el
recuerdo. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1951. 120 p.
2981. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Antonio Vega Muoz. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1957. 56 p.
2982. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Don Rafael Torres, Revista del Centro de Estudios
Histricos de Cuenca, 10:38 (mar. 1943), 165-186.
2983. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Federico Proao: galeote del destino. Cuenca: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1953. 340 p.
A biography of a journalist exiled originally by Garca Moreno and subsequently again by
Veintimilla.
2984. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Fray Jos Mara Aguirre. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1953. 31 p.
2985. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Fray Vicente Solano: estudio biogrfico crtico. Cuenca:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1966. 2 v.
A substantially revised and augmented edition of work originally published: Cuenca: Tip.
Municipal, 1942. Nicely detailed, solidly documented, well written. In so far as the specifics of
Father Solanos life are concerned, probably a definitive account. Not as objective as one would
like, however.
2986. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. El hermano Miguel: (Francisco Febres Cordero Muoz).
Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1955. 256 p.
2987. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Luis Cordero, 1833-1912, Tres de noviembre, nueva ser.,
4 (6 abr. 1933), 38-55.
2988. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Luis Cordero Dvila: verbo y lira con alma de espada.
Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1948. 131 p.
A prize-winning biography. Somewhat verbose and not as informative as it could be,
however. Cordero Dvila (1876-1940) was a cuencano who dabbled in poetry and the son of
Luis Cordero Crespo.
2989. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Manuel J. Calle, Amrica (Quito), 16:70 (1941), 89-102.
2990. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Muy antiquo y muy moderno ... : Francisco Patio de Lara
(1589-1660) y Emmanuel Honorato Vzquez (1894-1924). Cuenca: [s.n.], 1939. 19 p.
2991. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Po Bravo. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo
del Azuay, 1960. 86 p.
A less than satisfactory account of the career of Po Bravo (1806-1858), a cuencano, lawyer,
journalist, polemicist and one of the founders of the Liberal party.
2992. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Rafael Mara Arzaga: semblanza. Cuenca: Tall. Tip. de la
Municipalidad de Cuenca, 1949. 39 p.
A sketch of the life and career of Arzaga (1858-1933), a cuencano and a conservative.
2993. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Semblanza de Octavio Cordero Palacios. Cuenca: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1958. 120 p.
A brief appraisal of the life and publications of Octavio Cordero Palacios (1870-1930), a
cuencano biographer and historian.
2994. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Tres semblanzas. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
Ncleo del Azuay, 1961. 68 p.
An appreciation of Roberto Crespo Ordez, Hortensia Ordnez de Crespo Toral, and their
son Roberto Crespo Toral.
2995. Albornoz Peralta, Oswaldo. Joaqun Chiriboga: un demcrata olvidado, Revista de
la Universidad de Guayaquil, 53/54 (jul./dic. 1983), 137-160.
2996. Albornoz Peralta, Oswaldo. Semblanza de Jos Peralta. Quito: Edit. Rumiahui,
1960. 47 p.
2997. Alvarado S., Jos Rafael. Biografas. Cuenca: Edit. Amazonas, 1978. 71 p.
Sketches the lives and careers of Daniel Hermida Ortega, Carlos Crespi, J. Ignacio Pea
Jaramillo, Manuel Mara Palacios Bravo, and Vctor Cuesta Jaramillo.
2998. Alvarado S., Jos Rafael. Reseas biogrficas de artistas azuayos contemporneos.
Cuenca: Edit. Amazonas, 1985. 68 p.
2999. Alvarado S., Jos Rafael. Reseas biogrficas sobre notables artistas azuayos.
Cuenca: Edit. Amazonas, 1984. 94 p.
Items 2998 and 2999 are useful sketches of the lives and careers of sculptors, painters,
musicians, composers and other past and present artists born in or identified with the Province of
Azuay.
3000. Alves, Alvio de. Juan Bautista Vsquez: apuntes biogrficos documentados relativos
a ese eminente azuayo. Cuenca: Impr. del Santo Cenculo, 1923. 91 p.
3001. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. El adelantado don Juan de Salinas Loyola y su Gobernacin
de Yaguarizongo y Pacamoros. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1980. 376 p.
Consists of extensive but nonetheless secondhand, not always accurate notes (from the
Archivo General de Indias via the Vacas Galindo collection) on sixteenth-century governors and
ecclesiastics of Spanish towns and Indian pueblos in what is now the Province of Jan de
Bracamoros in northern Peru. N.B. Over the years Anda Aguirre has demonstrated himself to be
an assiduous researcher and a generally reliable scholar, depending upon the sources or
collections consulted. Unfortunately, however, he is lacking in methodology and objectivity.
3002. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Los Carrin. Loja: Edit. Universitaria, 1964. 104 p.
A genealogical study of the Carrin family. The founder of the family in Ecuador was the
sevillano Agustn Carrin y Merodio (d. 1631). Based on research in the private collection of the
late Cristbal de Gangotena y Jijn.
3003. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. El corregidor de Loja don Melchor de Pealosa. Loja: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Loja, 1976. 110 p.
A well documented biography of an early seventeenth-century corregidor of Loja. Based on
research in the Gangotena y Jijn and Vacas Galindo Collections.
3004. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Corregidores y servidores pblicos de Loja. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1987. 273 p.
A veritable whos who of corregidores, cabildo members, notaries, and other public officials
of Loja during the colonial period.
3005. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Datos ms detallados sobre el linaje de don Juan de Salinas y
Loyola. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1982. 23 p.
3006. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Datos sobre apellidos y personajes lojanos, Revista del
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y Antropolgicas, 3:5 (nov. 1983), 243-251;
4/5:6 (dic. 1985), 135-177; 10:8 (jul. 1990), 163-166.
Research notes on various lojanos of the colonial, independence, and early national periods.
Based on research in local parish and notarial archives. Another part of this work appeared in no.
7 of the Revista del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y Antropolgicas, not yet
seen by me. See also Anda Aguirres Los Aguirre en Loja in ibid., 8 (jul. 1990), 61-107.
3007. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Los Marqueses de Solanda: mritos y servicios de la familia
Snchez, Marqueses de Solanda: defensa documentada de doa Mariana Carceln de Sucre,
mujer del Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1974. 189 p.
An infatuated biography, based on private papers in the Gangotena y Jijn Collection, of one
of the titled families of the colonial and independence periods, especially of the I and II Marquis
of Solanda. The final third of the volume is given over to vindicating Sucres widow, the VIII
Marquise of Solanda and VI of Villarrocha.
3008. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Primeros gobernadores de Mainas: los generales Vaca de
Vega. Quito: [s.n.], 1955. 159 p.
A study of the lives and careers of Diego Vaca de Vega (d. 1627?), his sons Pedro Vaca de la
Cadena and Juan Mauricio Vaca de Evan (d. 1673?), and his nephew Jernimo Vaca de Vega
(1649-1693), who inherited the governorship of Mainas. Based on the Gangotena y Jijn and
Vacas Galindo collections.
3009. Anda Aguirre, Martn. Los primeros vecinos de Loja. Quito: Edit. Fr. Jodoco Ricke,
1950. 113 p.
On the four Pedros (de la Cadena, de Cianca, de Len, and Pacheco).
3010. Anda Aguirre de Mora Moreno, Amelia. Eduardo Mora Moreno: su obra y su
recuerdo, 1906-1987, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. Voluntad, 1990. 571 p.
A biography of a twentieth-century legislator and politician of Loja by his widow.
3011. Andrade, Ral. Julio Andrade: crnica de una vida heroica. Quito: C.G. Liebmann,
1962. 70 p.
Hardly objective, but useful for data culled from family memories and papers. N.B. Julio and
Roberto Andrade were brothers.
3012. Andrade, Roberto. Montalvo y Garca Moreno: ensayos histricos y biogrficos, 2 ed.
Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1987. 297 p.
Reprint of the first complete edition: Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, 1970. 2 v. Vol. 1 was
originally published as: Estudios histricos: Montalvo y Garca Moreno (Lima: F. Grau, 1890).
Pro-Montalvo and anti-Garca Moreno. Andrade participated in the assassination of Garca
Moreno, on which see also Andrades rare Seis de agosto (Portoviejo: Escuela de Artes y
Oficios, 1896; 415 p).
3013. Andrade, Roberto. Quin mat a Garca Moreno?: autobiografa de un perseguido,
estudio introductorio y notas, Plutarco Naranjo y Fernando Jurado. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala:
Sociedad de Amigos de la Genealoga, 1994. 2 v.
Posthumously published memoirs of one of the most important members of the Liberal
movement and Party. Sheds considerable light on the politics and personalities of the second
half of the nineteenth and the first third of the twentieth century.
3014. Andrade, Roberto. Vida y muerte de Eloy Alfaro: memorias. New York: York
Printing Company, 1916. 492 p.
Pro-Alfaro.
3015. Andrade Coello, Alejandro. Motivos nacionales. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin
Nacionales, 1911-1927. 2 v.
Items 3023-3026 are reprinted in item 531. None of the above mentioned works reflects
original research, being based on other biographies and the published works of the biographee,
but they are well written and notable because Arias attempted to depict the private as well as the
public personae.
3027. Arias Altamirano, Augusto. Diccionario biogrfico del clero secular guayaquilense,
1820-1970. Guayaquil: Impr. Romal, 1971. 307 p.
A useful reference work. Based on original research.
3028. Arzaga, Jos Rafael. El seor doctor don Antonio Borrero, Presidente del Ecuador.
Quito: Tip. de F. Bermeo, 1876. 38 p.
An appreciation by a contemporary.
3029. Arzaga, Rafael Mara. El coronel Alejandro Vargas Machuca, Revista del Centro de
Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 1 (ene. 1921), 97-115.
3030. Arzaga Vega, Rafael. Antonio Vega Muoz, el insurgente, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. el
Conejo, 1989. 205 p.
3031. Arzaga Vega, Rafael. Memoria histrica: 1920-1989, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. Voluntad,
1990-. <1> v.
The autobiography and memoirs of a cuencano intellectual and politician.
3032. Arzaga Vega, Rafael. Velasco Ibarra, el rostro del caudillo. Quito: Ediciones
Culturales U.N.P., 1985. 297 p.
3033. Arzaga y Arzaga, Max Romeo. Los Arzaga en la cultura nacional. Guayaquil: M.R.
Arzaga, 1986. 107 p.
3034. Armijos Ayala, Arturo. Isidro Ayora: esbozo biogrfico. Loja: Offset Cosmos, 1979.
48 p.
3035. Arosemena, Guillermo. Los Arosemena: historia de una familia de tradicin
guayaquilea. Guayaquil: G. Arosemena, 1988. 265 p.
3036. Arosemena, Guillermo. Los Coronel: grandes comerciantes guayaquileos del siglo
XIX, 1 ed. Guayaquil: G. Arosemena, 1995. 151 p.
An uncritical biography of Ildefonso Coronel (1794-1877) and his sons Francisco (1846-1905)
and Agustn (1839-1889). Nonetheless, well documented and an important contribution to the
economic history of the port city.
3037. Arrobo Carrin, Celn. Rutas inolvidables. Quito: Edit. Artes Grficas, 1969. 236 p.
The memoirs of a civil engineer.
3038. Arteaga Parrales, Jos. El martir de El Ejido. Quito: Edit. Delta, 1995-. <1> v.
(S.A.G.; 114)
Partial contents: t. 1, Alfaro visto por un coterraneo manabita.
See also items 6436 and 6437 and Beermans Francisco Requena : la expedicin de lmites:
Amazonia, 1779-1795 (Madrid: Compaa Literaria, 1996; 187 p.)
3061. Beerman, Eric. El Marqus de Selva Alegre, hroe de la independencia ecuatoriana,
Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 9:18 (dic. 1980), 25-37.
Notwithstanding the title, a genealogical study of the Montfars.
3062. Benalczar, Sebastin de. Testamento del seor capitn don Sebastin de Benalczar:
conquistador y fundador de la ciudad de San Francisco de Quito, versin paleogrfica de Jorge
A. Garcs G. y anotaciones del Rdo. Padre Fr. Alfonso A. Jerves, O.P. Quito: Archivo
Municipal, 1935. 78 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 7)
3063. Benites Vinueza, Leopoldo. Argonautas de la selva: (biografa del capitn D.
Francisco de Orellana y la aventura del descubrimiento del Amazonas). Mxico: Fondo de
Cultura Econmica, 1945. 306 p.
3064. Benites Vinueza, Leopoldo. Francisco Eugenio Espejo, habitante de la noche. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1984. 247 p.
The final installment in Benites Vinuezas lifetime study of Espejo. Beautifully written.
Insightful and scholarly sound for the most part.
3065. Benites Vinueza, Leopoldo. Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo y Jos
Meja Lequerica, Precursores (Puebla, Mxico, 1960), p. 1-126. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana
mnima; [12])
3066. Berthe, Augustine. Garca Moreno, president de LEquateur: vengeur et martyr du
droit chrtien (1821-1875). Paris: Retaux-Bray, Libraire-Editeur, 1887. 813 p.
Converts Garca Moreno into a martyr for Christianity. The author was a French
Redemptorist. For a coeval critique see item 3070. Also published in English as: Garca
Moreno, President of Ecuador, 1821-1875. London: Burns and Gates, 1889. xii, 333 p. And in
Spanish as: Garca Moreno, presidente de la Repblica del Ecuador: vengador y mrtir del
derecho cristiano. Paris: Vctor Retaux e Hijo, Libreros Editores, 1892. 2 v.
3067. Biografas de valores manabitas. Portoviejo: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 19811982. 8 v.
Contents: [1], Jos Mara Egas; [2], Alejo Lascano Bahamonde; [3], Eloy Alfaro Delgado, el
general de 100 batallas, su vida heroica; [4], Verdi Cevallos Balda, poeta y cientfico; [5],
Manuel Andrade Ureta, 1917-1974; [6], Constantino Mendoza Moreira: compositor inmortal;
[7], Elas Cedeo Jerves: autor del inmortal pasillo Manab; [8], Manuel Inocencio Parrales y
Guale: cacique y gobernador.
3068. Boero, Joseph. The Life of the Blessed Mary Ann of Jesus, de Paredes y Flores: an
American Virgin Called the Lilly of Quito. Philadelphia: Peter F. Cunningham, 1863. 302 p.
A hagiography.
3069. Borja, Luis Felipe (hijo). El Dr. Antonio Borrero y Cortzar: apuntes histricobiogrficos, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 22:59 (ene./jun. 1942), 5-41.
3080. Brice, Angel Francisco. Juan Jos Flores, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de la
Historia (Caracas), 47:188 (oct./dic. 1964), 525-536.
Flores has enjoyed a more favorable but not necessarily more objective press in his country of
origin than in the country he founded.
3081. Bucaram: historia de una vida, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1981. 299 p.
Consists of materials on Assad Bucaram (1916-1981) and the Concentracin de Fuerzas
Populares.
3082. Bueno C., Ricardo. El Rdo. Sr. Pbro. Juan Jos Glvez: apstol de los indios (18911926). Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1926. 23 p.
3083. Burbano Vzquez, Jos Rafael. Biografa de Honorato Vsquez, 1 ed. Cuenca: Banco
Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura 1981. xli, 475 p.
3084. Burgos Flor, Csar. Biografa de Francisco Huerta Rendn. Guayaquil:
Vicerrectorado Acadmico de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1990. 72 p.
3085. Burson, Daniel W. Jos Mara Villamil: Soldier, Statesman of the Americas. 1976.
ix, 288 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Louisiana State University.
3086. Calatayud Arinero, Mara de los Angeles. Pedro Franco Dvila: primer director del
Gabinete de Historia Natural, fundado por Carlos III. Madrid: Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientficas, 1988. 250 p.
Probably the best study of the founder of the eventual Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales
ever likely to be undertaken. Exceptionally detailed and well documented. See also the authors
Catlogo de documentos del Real Gabinete de Historia Natural (Madrid: Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientficas, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 1987; 3 vols.).
3087. Calle, Manuel J. Biografas y semblanzas. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1921. xxxi, 294 p.
Consists of biographical sketches and studies of Luis Cordero, Remigio Crespo Toral,
Federico Gonzlez Surez, Luis A. Martnez, Juan B. Vela, and Honorato Vzquez. The 1966
edition (Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca) reprints only the chapters on Cordero, Crespo Toral,
and Vzquez.
3088. Calle, Manuel J. Figuras y siluetas. Quito: Tip. de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios,
1899. 308 p.
Includes a detailed biography of Manuel Benigno Cueva, Eloy Alfaros first vice president
(1896-1897). The other Liberals covered are Abelardo Moncayo, Felicsimo Lpez, Luis Vargas
Torrs, Federico Proao, and Francisco Hall.
3089. Calle, Manuel J. Hombres de la revuelta: Tern, Peralta, Moncayo, Alfaro, Arvalo,
Estrada, Arellano, Cueva, Trevio, Mestanza, Felicsimo Lpez, etc. Guayaquil: La Nacin,
1907. viii, 196 p.
Published under the pseudonym: Enrique de Rastignac.
3090. Calle, Manuel J. Juan Murillo Mir, muerto en Quito en la maana del 15 de
diciembre de 1900: rasgo necrolgico. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1900. 29 p.
3091. Camacho Santos, Efran. Apuntes biogrficos de don Vicente Rocafuerte: impulsor de
la independencia americana, y presidente de la Repblica del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Litografa e
Impr. La Reforma, 1936. 54 p.
Also published as: Don Vicente Rocafuerte: impulsor de la independencia americana y
presidente de la Repblica del Ecuador, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 4:4/6
(1934-1936), 10-63. Reprinted: Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas,
1984. 87 p.
3092. Campodonico, Miguel. Los maestros: semblanzas de algunos profesionales
ecuatorianos. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1940. 52 p.
3093. Campos, Francisco. Galera biogrfica de hombres clebres ecuatorianos. Guayaquil:
Impr. de El Telegrafo, 1885. 111 p.
3094. Carbo, Pedro. Biografa de Olmedo. Guayaquil: Impr. de La Nacin por Fidel
Montoya, 1880. 20 p.
Reprinted in: Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 8:15 (jun. 1979), 93-111.
3095. Carbo, Pedro. Vicente Rocafuerte, introduccin y notas de Cecilia Alvarez R.
Riobamba: Edit. Pedaggica Freire, 1984. 99 p.
Reprint; originally published as: Biografa del ilustre ecuatoriano Sr. Vicente Rocafuerte.
Lima: Impr. del Teatro, 1884. 29 p.
3096. Crdenas Reyes, Mara Cristina. Velasco Ibarra: ideologa, poder y democracia, 1 ed.
Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional; Fundacin Friedrich Naumann, 1991. 110 p.
3097. Carmona Moreno, Flix. Fray Luis Lpez de Sols, O.S.A.: figura estelar de la
evangelizacin de Amrica. Madrid: Edit. Revista Agustiniana, 1993. 223 p.
See also item 4983.
3098. Carpio Abad, Rafael. Vida y andanzas de Rafael Carpio Abad: (autobiografa).
Cuenca, Departamento de Difusin Cultural, Universidad de Cuenca, 1978. 100 p.
The autobiography of the composer (b. 1905) of the pasillo Chorritos de luz and the
pasacalle Chola cuencana.
3099. Carrasco Vintimilla, Manuel. Mito y realidad de Eugenio Espejo, Revista del
Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 2 (1980), 52-74.
3100. Carrera Andrade, Jorge. El volcn y el colibr: autobiografa, prlogo, esbozo
biogrfico y bibliografa por J. Enrique Ojeda, 2 ed. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional,
1989. 345 p.
Originally published: Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr. 1970. 358 p.
3101. Carrin, Benjamn. Atahualpa, 3 ed. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1956.
225 p.
Originally published: Mxico: Impr. Mundial, 1934. 315 p. Available in multiple editions.
Historical fiction in the guise of scholarship.
3102. Carrin, Benjamn. Garca Moreno, el santo del patbulo, 1 ed. Mxico: Fondo de
Cultura Econmica, 1959. 746 p.
Vituperation paraded as erudition. Also published in a 2 ed.: Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1984.
745 p.
3103. Carrin, Benjamn. G.H. Mata, el comprendedor apasionado. Cuenca: Impr. Canisio,
1967. 118 p.
3104. Casares, Manuel Mara. Los restos de Sucre: contestacin a la Rplica del Dr. A.
Muoz Vernaza. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1906. 177 p.
Argues that the remains of Sucre used to be in Carmen Alto, before they came to rest in the
Cathedral of Quito, but their true whereabouts are still being debated.
3105. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Defensa de Olmedo, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa,
1:1 (ene. 1951), 17-28.
Reprinted in: Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 11:27 (1961), 77-90.
3106. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Ecuatorianos ilustres en Costa Rica durante el siglo xix. San
Jos: Impr. Vargas, 1958. 36 p.
Originally published in: Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 7:19/21 (dic. 1957), 183-220.
3107. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Pedro Franco Dvila: un sabio guayaquileo olvidado,
Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas . 9:21/22 (1952), 9-57.
A well researched biography of the guayaquileo who founded the Real Gabinete de Historia
Natural in Madrid (now the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales). Also published in: Revista
chilena de historia y geografa, 127 (1959), 92-132; and in Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa,
11/12:28/29 (1962-1963), 3-42.
3108. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Medardo Angel Silva: vida, poesa y muerte. Guayaquil: Banco
Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1983. xiii, 426 p.
Con una completa bibliografa seguida de una breve antologa en verso y prosa y 24
fotografas relacionadas con el poeta.
3109. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Olmedo entre San Martn y Bolvar. Guayaquil: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1973. 96 p.
3110. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Olmedo, libertador civil del Ecuador, Revista del Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 2:3 (jun. 1973), 7-13.
3111. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Olmedo, prcer y poeta, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 63:135/136 (ene./dic. 1980), 263-298.
3112. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Viuda y madre de hroes: doa Manuela Garaycoa de
Caldern, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 1:2/3 (dic. 1951), 252-256.
3113. Castillo, Juan del. Vita della venerable Mariana di Gesu de Paredes e Flores: vergine
secolare americana suprannomata il giglio di Quito. Roma: Salomoni, 1776. 235 p.
A hagiography.
3114. Castro, Julio. En el centenario del nacimiento del historiador nacional, Sr. Dr. Dn.
Pedro Fermn Cevallos. Quito: El Comercio, 1912. 55 p.
3115. Castro Donoso, Pablo Javier. Biografa del doctor Miguel Egas Cabeza, Revista del
Ncleo de Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura ecuatoriana, 12:25:23 (ene. 1979), 157-165.
3116. Castro Tola, Mara Lola. Apuntes biogrficos sobre el ingeniero Otto von Buchwald,
Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 17:33 (1967), 136-142.
3117. Castro Tola, Mara Lola. El ilustrsimo seor don Luis de Tola y Avils, Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 9-29.
An essay on the life (1811-1877) and career of the first bishop of Portoviejo (1871-1877).
3118. Castro Tola, Mara Lola. Monseor Francisco Xavier de Garaicoa y Llaguno,
Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 9:25/26 (1960), 74-80.
An eulogy of the first bishop of Guayaquil.
3119. Cevallos, Pedro Fermn. Ecuatorianos ilustres: (biografas de Pedro Vicente
Maldonado, P. Juan de Velasco, P. Juan B. Aguirre, Antonio Alcedo). Quito: Impr. La
Juventud, 1912. 58 p.
3120. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Por un Garca Moreno de cuerpo entero. Cuenca: Edit. Don
Bosco, 1978. 330 p.
Attempts to demystify and to humanize Garca Moreno. Supersedes authors earlier study,
Entonces fue el Ecuador (item 2024). Unfortunately, Cevallos Garca expends too much space
on trying to explain Garca Moreno and not enough on his life and career. Also Cevallos Garca
dispenses with bibliography on the grounds that the informed reader already knows what has
been written on Garca Moreno, an approach that I find cavalier inasmuch as Cevallos Garca
appears, more often than not, to be carrying on a debate with those who had condemned as well
as with those who had eulogized Garca Moreno. Reprinted in Temas histricos ecuatorianos
(item 217), vol. 2, p. 45-384.
3121. Cobo Espinosa, Rafael. Biografa de Luis Alberto Falcon Garzn. Riobamba: Impr.
del Colegio Experimental Pedro Vicente Maldonado, 1968. 71 p.
3122. Ciudadanos distinguidos de Loja. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1969. 136 p.
3123. Coloquio internacional sobre Juan Montalvo: Ambato, del 14 al 22 de julio de 1988.
Quito: Fundacin Friedrich Naumann, 1989. 651 p.
See also item 4425.
3124. Compte, Francisco Mara. Defensa del P. Fr. Jodoco Ricke, fundador de los
Conventos de S. Pablo de Quito y de San Bernardino de Popayn: va seguida de un bosquejo
histrico de su vida, con algunos documentos inditos ... Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1882-1883. 2
v.
A traditional yet indispensable biography of the founder of the Franciscan Order in Quito.
Detailed and heavily documented.
3125. Conozca a los hombres de Guayaquil: el libro de oro del 72: un homenaje a los
valores humanos de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Marco Tulio Guerra Borja, Alberto Garcs Mancero,
1972. 168 p.
3126. Contra el Dr. Eugenio Espejo, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 44:100
(jul./dic. 1962), 297-304.
Publishes Mara de Chiriboga y Villaviencios 1787 accusation that Espejo had libeled her
and other prominent riobambeos in his satirical Cartas riobambenses, and related materials.
3127. Coral Patio, Hector. Vida y obra del seor General Alberto Enrquez Gallo. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988. 465 p.
A biography of Enrquez Gallo (1895-1962), president of Ecuador (Oct. 1937-Aug. 1938).
3128. Cordero Crespo, Luis. Del surco a la cumbre: biografa del ex-presidente don Luis
Cordero. Cuenca: Edit. Monterrey, 1979. 265 p.
3129. Cordero Crespo, Luis. Gonzlez Surez: ensayo crtico sobre su personalidad y su
obra. Cuenca: Edit. Austral, 1944. 119 p.
3130. Cordero Jaramillo, Leoncio. Emiliano Crespo Astudillo: un hito en la historia de la
medicina en el Azuay, Archivos de historia de la medicina (item 5309), p. 201-218.
3131. Cordero Jaramillo, Leoncio. Timolen Carrera Cobos: disciplina, servicio y amistad.
Cuenca: Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Historia de la Medicina, 1982. 25 p.
Also published in: Archivos de historia de la medicina (item 5309), p. 235-245.
3132. Cordero Palacios, Octavio. Vida de Abdn Caldern, Revista del Centro de Estudios
Histricos y Geogrficos del Azuay, 3 (jun. 1921), 193-220.
A romanticized portrait. Reprinted several times.
3133. Crdova, Andrs F. Mis primeros 90 aos. Quito: Edit. Epoca, [1982]. 387 p.
3134. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo. Daquilema, el ltimo guaminga, 3rd ed. Quito:
Cedime: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1984. 192 p.
Revisada y reelaborada. Originally published under title: Fernando Daquilema. Quito:
Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1957. 138 p. The second edition, Fernando Daquilema, ltimo
guaminga, appeared as no. 16 of Lacta. 221 p. One of the few works on an indigenous uprising
of the nineteenth century that attempts to place the movement and its leadership in historical
context.
3135. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo. Fray Pedro Bedn Pineda: padre de la escuela quitea.
Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1954. 120 p.
The lives of Federico Marcos Hidalgo (d. 1879), Manuel de J. Bravo, Jacinto de Evia, Dr.
Jos Mascote, Dr. Rafael Garca Goyena--whose Fbulas (Guatemala: Imp. F. Silva,1886)
Chvez Franco reprints (p. 92-201)--Dr. Miguel Perdomo Neira, Antonio Neumane, Federico
Vctor Reinel, and other forgotten guayaquileos. Unfortunately this work is more anecdotal
than factual. Chvez Franco even neglects to give such elementary data as dates of birth and
death.
3150. Chvez Ramrez, Jaime. Los tres maestros: Juan Montalvo, Federico Gonzlez Surez
y Luis F. Mora. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1945. 177 p.
3151. Checa Drouet, Benigno. Vida de don Juan Montalvo. Lima: Edit. Excelsior, 1933.
415 p.
3152. Cheves, Angel Polibio. El prcer Dn. Manuel de Echeanda. Guaranda: Impr.
Escolar, 1918. 17 p.
3153. Chiriboga N., Angel Isaac. El coronel don Carlos Montfar y Larrea, el hroe ms
autntico y verdadero de la patria ecuatoriana, El Movimiento emancipador de Hispanoamrica
(Madrid: Ediciones Guadarrama, 1961), p. 179-202.
3154. Chiriboga N., Angel Isaac. El prcer General Dn. Antonio Farfn, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 23:62 (jul./dic. 1943), 149-164.
3155. Chiriboga Villaquirn, Marco. Vida, pasin y muerte de Eugenio Espejo, 1 ed. Quito:
Editora Panorama, 1995. 147 p.
3156. Darquea, Ricardo. Eloy Alfaro. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1942. 244 p.
Relatively objective.
3157. Darquea Cevallos, F. Alberto. Recuerdos a la memoria del seor doctor don Pedro
Fermn Cevallos. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1897. vii, 296 p.
3158. Dautzenberg, Leonard. [1842-1915] Ilmo. Dr. Pedro Schumacher: un hombre
apostlico de la regin del Rhin en el siglo XIX, 1839-1902 ..., traduccin del Dr. Wilfrido Loor,
2 ed. con nuevas notas aclaratorias e ndices ms completos. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1968.
556 p.
The first Spanish edition appeared as: Un hombre apostlico de la regin del Rhin en el siglo
XIX, 1839-1902: el Ilustrsimo seor Pedro Schumacher: cartas y breves rasgos de su vida.
Portoviejo: Tall. anexo El Cronista, 1933. 5 v. Originally published in German as: Bischof
Peter Schumacher Oberhirte der Dizese Portoviejo (Ecuador): ein apostolischer Mann aus
rheinischen Landen im 19. Jahrhundert (1839-1902): Lebensabriss und Briefe. Regensburg: F.
Pustet, 1908. viii, 663 p.
3159. Dvila Andrade, Csar. Fray Vicente Solano: el combatiente sedentario. Cuenca:
Tall. Grf. Municipales, 1965. 42 p.
3160. De la Torre Reyes, Carlos. La espada sin mancha: biografa del general Julio
Andrade. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1962. 738 p.
A detailed, solid, well researched life and times of one of the principal figures of the Liberal
Revolution. Reprinted: Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1995. 666 p. (Coleccin histrica;
15)
3161. De la Torre Reyes, Carlos. Piedrahita: un emigrado de su tiempo. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1968. 369 p.
Piedrahita was governor of the Province of Guayas during the first presidency of Garca
Moreno and Ecuadors representative to the 1864-1865 Congreso Americano of Lima. Well but
incompletely researched. In his introduction De la Torre Reyes maintains Los pavorosos
incendios que ha sufrido la ciudad de Guayaquil han termindo con archivos, de incalculable valor
para mis investigaciones (p. 11), but even the original of the expediente on the assassination of
Piedrahita (1878) survives in the Archivo Histrico de la Biblioteca Municipal. Reprinted:
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1988. 389 p.
3162. Defourneaux, Marcelin. Un ilustrado quiteo: don Manuel Gijn y Len, primer
Conde de Casa Gijn (1717-1794), Anuario de estudios americanos, 24 (1967), 1237-1297.
A major contribution to the history of the eighteenth century as well as to that of the titled
nobility of Quito. Well researched. Reprinted in: Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia,
52:113 (ene./junio 1969), 65-97.
3163. Del Pino, Fermn. Atau Huallpa. Madrid: Anaya, 1989. 128 p.
A popular biography.
3164. La Descendencia de Atahualpa, [documentos transcritos con una introduccin por]
Cristbal de Gangotena y Jijn, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 38:91 (ene./jun.
1958),107-124; 39:93 (ene./jun. 1959), 91-97.
Publishes several mid sixteenth-century sources, especially last wills and testaments, relating
to sons of Atahualpa.
3165. Destruge, Camilo. Album biogrfico ecuatoriano, 2 ed. anotada e ilustrada.
Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1984. 5 v. in 2.
A photofacsimile reprint; originally published: Guayaquil: Tip. El Vigilante, 1903-1905. 5
v. Consists of biographical sketches of notable Ecuadorians from the Reino de Quito through
the early twentieth century. Still a useful reference work inasmuch as Destruge was a serious
scholar who based his works on archival as well as published sources.
3166. Destruge, Camilo. Biografa del general don Len de Febrs Cordero: prcer de la
independencia de Guayaquil y benemrito de la emancipacin americana. Guayaquil: Impr.
Municipal, [1920]. 96 p.
3167. Destruge, Camilo. Biografa del Gral. don Juan Illingworth. Guayaquil: Uzctegui y
Ca, 1913. xii, 310 p.
3168. Destruge, Camilo. Un inventor guayaquileo, Boletn de la Biblioteca Municipal de
Guayaquil, 3:41 (mayo/jun. 1914), 264-270.
The biography of a local inventor who developed a submarine, among other unusual
machines.
3169. Destruge, Camilo. Urvina el presidente: biografa del general Jos Mara Urvina, 1
ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1992. 309 p. (Coleccin histrica; 23)
Previously unpublished. Although highly favorable, a solidly documented and as of the late
1990s, the most detailed study of the seventh president of the country.
3170. Daz del Castillo Z., Emiliano. Los Rosero de Sols, Boletn de historia y
antigedades, 78:774 (ago./sept. 1991), 667-683.
Includes an account of Juan Rosero de Sols, one of the founders of Guayaquil.
3171. Daz Maderuelo, Rafael. Francisco de Orellana. Madrid: Historia 16, 1987. 158 p.
3172. Diccionario biogrfico ecuatoriano, 2 ed. Quito: Producciones Editoriales, 19851986. 2 v.
Includes approximately 9,000 entries.
3173. Documentos para la historia de la Beata Mariana de Jess Azucena de Quito, [los
publica con una introduccin] Julio Matovele. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1902. xxvi, 403, xxxvi p.
3174. Documentos para la vida de Eugenio Santa Cruz y Espejo, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 26:68 (jul./dic. 1946), 246-251.
3175. Donoso, Ricardo. Antonio Jos de Irisarri: escritor y diplomtico, 1786-1868, 2 ed.
Santiago: Facultad de Filosofa y Educacin, Universidad de Chile, 1966. 304 p.
During his exile in Ecuador, Irisarri, a Chilean, occupied himself by meddling in internal
politics--he was a partisan and a protge of Flores--and by editing and publishing the weekly La
Verdad desnuda (Guayaquil, 1 June 1839-21 May 1840), an important source on political and
economic developments and events of the day.
3176. Drouet, Virgilio. Miscelnea social. Barcelona: Tip. y Fotograbado Vda. Luis Tasso,
1926. 397 p.
Supplements item 3177. Mostly recollections of his travels throughout the Americas and
Europe.
3177. Drouet, Virgilio. Treinta aos de labor en beneficio del pueblo. Barcelona: Impr.
Viuda de Luis Tasso, 1920. 427 p.
The memoirs of a guayaquileo intellectual active in the early labor movement, especially in
the promotion of mutual benefit societies.
3178. Egas, Vctor; and Juan Francesia. Cuando el premio es el destierro: Luis Calcagno,
fundador de la obra salesiana en el Ecuador. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 459 p.
3179. Elliot, Elisabeth. Shadow of the Almighty: the Life & Testament of Jim Elliot. New
York: Harper, 1958. 256 p.
As much a hagiography as any life of a saint.
3180. Elliot, Elisabeth. Through Gates of Splendor, lst ed. New York: Harper, 1957. 256 p.
The story of the five Protestant missionaries slain by Huaorani in 1956. Elisabeth Elliot is the
widow of Jim Elliot, one of the Wycliffe missionaries. Also published in a 2nd ed.: Wheaton,
Ill.: Tyndale House Publications, 1981. 273 p.
3181. En defensa de Manuela Senz: la libertadora del libertador, [Pablo Neruda et al.;
editor, Arturo Valero Martnez; seleccin de textos y coordinacin de Carlos Caldern Chico].
Guayaquil: Edit. del Pacfico, [1988?]. 215 p.
Reactions by Ecuadorian, Venezuelan, and other Latin American scholars to Denzil Romeros
price winning but controversial novel, La esposa del Dr. Thorne (Barcelona: Tusquets Editores,
1988). Includes previously published materials on the liberator of the Liberator.
3182. Escalante, Luis R. Biografa del Ilmo. y Rvdmo. Sr. Dr. Dn. fray Jos Mara Yerovi:
obispo de Cidonia y Arzobispo electo de Quito. Quito: Tip. y Encuadernacin de la Prensa
Catlica, 1923. xx, 551 p.
3183. Escudero, Gonzalo. Crespo Toral. Quito: Publicacin del Grupo Amrica, 1940. 28
p.
3184. Espejo, Eugenio. Las prisiones del doctor Eugenio Espejo, 1783-1787-1795: su
defensa y apelaciones ante la corte: documentos del Archivo del Conde Jos de Ezpeleta, virrey
de Santa F (1789-1797), introduccin y notas por Jorge Villalba Freire. Quito: Ediciones de la
Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1992. 187 p.
A well edited set of primary sources.
3185. Espinosa, Rafael M. Dr. Vctor Manuel Peaherrera: jurisconsulto, maestro y
precursor. Quito: Litogrficos Andradecar, 1986. 323 p.
3186. Espinosa, Rafael M.; and Carlos E. Villacs E. Semblanzas histrico-biogrficas del
Sr. general Alberto Enrquez Gallo. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1965. 144 p.
A biography of the general who ousted Pez on Oct. 27, 1937 and ruled the country through
Aug. 10, 1938.
3187. Espinosa Cordero, Nicols. Don Luis Cordero: ensayo biogrfico que se publica con
motivo del primer centenario de su nacimiento, 1833-1933. Cuenca: [s.n.], 1933. 32 p.
3188. Espinosa Plit, Aurelio. Olmedo en la historia y en las letras. Quito: Edit. Clsica,
1955. 158 p.
Well researched. Reprinted: Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1980. 214 p.
3189. Espinosa Plit, Aurelio. Santa Mariana de Jess, hija de la Compaa de Jess.
Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1957. 410 p.
A solid albeit unabashedly favorable biography of the Lilly of Quito, not just another
hagiography.
3190. Esquema de una vida ejemplar: homenaje de La Previsora Banco Nacional de Crdito
a Vctor Emilio Estrada. Guayaquil: Edit. Cervantes, 1955. 614 p.
3191. Estrada, Jenny. Una mujer total, Matilde Hidalgo de Procel: biografa. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1981. 198 p.
A biography of the first woman to graduate in medicine and to vote in Ecuador. There is also
a 2 ed.: Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1985. 190 p.
3192. Estrada, Jenny. Mujeres de Guayaquil: siglo XVI al siglo XX, indice biogrfico, 1 ed.
Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1984. xi, 332 p.
Consists of biographical sketches of notable women of the port city from the 1500s through
the 1900s.
3193. Estrada, Jenny. Personajes y circunstancias: entrevistas y reportajes. Guayaquil: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1982. 259 p.
3194. Estrada, Vctor Emilio. Vida de un hombre: Emilio Estrada. Guayaquil: Impr. A.G.
Senefelder, 1942. 260 p.
A highly factual and relatively unbiased biography, notwithstanding the consanguineal
relationship between biographee and biographer (father and son).
3195. Estupin Bass, Csar Nvil. Nuestro Vargas Torres, 1 ed. Esmeraldas: Ediciones de
la Universidad Tcnica Luis Vargas Torres, 1987. 301 p.
An eulogistic biography of the Liberal montonero.
3196. Estupin Bass, Nelson. El placer de recordar, 1a ed. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1995-. <1> v. (226 p.)
Vol. 1 (entitled Este largo camino) of a well known Afro-Ecuadorian authors memoirs.
Covers his childhood and early years as a novelist and short story writer.
3197. Estupin-Freile, Tamara. Una familia republicana: los Martnez Holgun. Quito:
Museos del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988. 382 p.
A well researched and illustrated history of Nicols Martnez and his spouse Adelaida
Holgun, their eleven children, and the family estate, the Hacienda Lyria. Emphasizes the
public life of the Martnez Holgun.
3198. Estupin Tello, Julio. Los Estupin y los Tello en el Ecuador. Quito: Sociedad
Amigos de la Genealoga, 1991. 206 p.
3199. Estupin Tello, Julio. Hombres representativos de Esmeraldas, 2 ed. Esmeraldas:
Tall. Electrogrfica Offset, 1978. 193 p.
Consists of brief biographies of Luis Vargas Torres, Luis Tello, Carlos Concha, Roberto Luis
Cervantes, Carlos Otoya, Rafael Palacios, Lenidas M. Drouet, Jos V. Trujillo, Simn Plata
Torres, Gustavo Becerra, Alejandrino Velasco, Enrique Valdez C., Carlos Diaz, and Jos A.
Caldern.
3200. Eugenio Espejo, conciencia crtica de su poca. Quito: Centro de Publicaciones,
Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1978. xiii, 369 p.
A compendium of five well researched and written essays on the life and times, writings and
significance of the precursor: Carlos Freile Granizo, El siglo XVIII en la Real Audiencia de
Quito (p. 1-48); Samuel Guerra Bravo, Apuntes para una crtica a los estudios sobre Eugenio
Espejo, 1796-1976 (p. 49-76); Jaime Pea Novoa, Biografa de Eugenio Espejo (p. 77-132);
Carlos Paladines, El pensamiento econmico, poltico y social de Espejo (p. 133-238); Samuel
Guerra Bravo, El itinerario filosfico de Eugenio Espejo (p. 239-349).
3201. Expediente promovido por doa Manuela Senz, sobre su filiacin y calidad [1821],
ARNAHIS, 12:18 (10 ago. 1970), 87-92.
3202. Fajardo, Eliecer L. La rosa del Guayas: biografa de la sierva de Dios R.M. Mercedes
de Jess Molina, fundadora de la ?Congregacin Nacional Mariana de Jess. Guayaquil:
Impr. Gutenberg de E.A. Uzctegui, 1926. xviii, 230 p.
A hagiography.
3203. La Familia de Eugenio Espejo, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 32:80
(jul./dic. 1952), 281-284.
3204. Febres Cordero, Francisco. El duro oficio: (vida del escritor Alfredo Pareja
Diezcanseco), 1 ed. Quito: I. Municipalidad de Quito, 1989. 317 p.
3205. Fiorio, Anselmo. Vida de Garca Moreno: hroe y mrtir de la religin y de la patria.
Bilbao: El Mensajero del Corazn de Jess, 1921. 224 p.
An excellent example of the quasi-hagiographic treatment accorded Garca Moreno by the
Catholic right. Important not as a biography--indeed as such it may be ignored--but as part of the
continuing polemic regarding the role and significance of Garca Moreno.
3206. Fisch, Olga. El Folclor que yo viv = The Folklore through My Eyes. [Cuenca]:
Centro Interamericano de Artesanas y Artes Populares, 1985. 237 p.
In Spanish and English. The memoirs of a leading exponent and practitioner of popular art in
Ecuador.
3207. Flor, Manuel Elicio. Don Juan Montalvo, Cultura, 5:12 (ene./mar. 1982), 139-168.
3208. Flores, Antonio. Manuela Caizares y Alvarez. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1954.
47 p.
3209. Flores y Caamao, Alfredo. Expedientes y otros datos inditos acerca del Dr. Jos
Meja Lequerica: nuevos aspectos de su vida de sabio. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1943. 73 p.
3210. Flores y Caamao, Alfredo. La primera figura cientfica de la colonia. Quito: Escuela
Tip. Salesiana, 1940. 167 p.
A biography of Pedro Vicente Maldonado. Maldonado accompanied La Condamine from its
arrival in Guayaquil in Feb. 1736 through its descent of the Amazon in 1743. Includes an
extensive documentary appendix (p. 61-167).
3211. Flores y Caamao, Alfredo. Rplica al Album biogrfico ecuatoriano: Destruge
contra Destruge. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1904. 49 p.
3240. Garcs, Enrique. Eugenio Espejo, mdico y duende, 3 ed. Quito: Edit. Universitaria,
1973. 327 p.
Originally published: Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1944. 237 p. Although clearly based on some
original research, unfortunately this work lacks notes and bibliography.
3241. Garcs, Enrique. Marietta de Veintimilla. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1949. 198 p.
Generally considered to be an outstanding biography.
3242. Garcs, Enrique. Rumiahui. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1953. 171 p.
May safely be ignored.
3243. Garcs, Vctor Manuel. Vida ejemplar y fecunda de Juan Len Mera. Ambato: Edit.
Po XII, 1963. 206 p.
3244. Garcs Giraldo, Diego. Sebastin de Belalczar, fundador de ciudades, 1490-1551:
estudio biogrfico. Cali: Impresora Feriva, 1986. 586 p.
A detailed and well documented study.
3245. Garca, Carlos T. El seor doctor don Francisco Chiriboga Bustamante: rasgos
biogrficos. Quito: Grf. Cedig, 1947. 19 p.
3246. Garca de Len y Pizarro, Jos. Memorias de la vida del excmo. seor d. Jos Garca
de Len y Pizarro. Madrid: Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1894-1897. 3 v.
Pizarro--as he was and continues to be known in Ecuador--was president and visitador of the
Audiencia of Quito between 1778 and 1784. Available in a modern reprint: Memorias (Madrid:
Centro de Estudios Constitucionales, 1999; 785 p.)
3247. Garca Regueiro, Ovidio. El quiteo don Miguel de Jijn y Len: contribucin al
estudio de la figura de un ilustrado criollo, Cuadernos hispanoamericanos, 400 (oct. 1983),
91-118.
3248. Gil Montero, Martha. The Marchioness and the Marshall, Amricas, 16:2 (Feb.
1994), 6-13.
An appreciation of Mariana Carceln y Larrea (1805-1861) and her first husband, the shortlived Antonio Jos de Sucre.
3249. Gmezjurado, Severo. Vida de Garca Moreno. Cuenca: El Tiempo, 1954-Quito:
[s.n.],1989. 14 v.
Vols. 1-2 were published in Cuenca (1954-1955); vols. 3-14: Quito (1957-1989).
An exceptionally detailed, exhaustively documented study of Garca Morenos life and times.
Unfortunately marred by excessive adulation. In Gmezjurados eyes, the dictator could do no
wrong. In this regard, it is important to note that Gmezjurado was not just a Jesuit priest but an
ultraconservative.
3250. Gmezjurado, Severo. Vida del hombre que honra al hombre. Quito: [s.n.], 1986.
612 p.
A convenient summary of the authors 14 vol. biography of Garca Moreno (item 3249).
3251. Gonzlez, Clodoveo. San Juan Montalvo: soldado y campen de la libertad, maestro
de los maestros laicos. Quito: Edit. Atahualpa, 1960. 426 p.
3252. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. El cacique Tomal: nacionalidad y soberana, 2 ed., corr. y
aum. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1990. 92 p.
3253. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Memorias ntimas: apuntes sobre asuntos personales,
escritos para esclarecer algunos hechos cuyo conocimiento podr convencer, acaso, a la
posteridad, ao de 1844-1895. Quito: El Da, 1930. 88 p.
Not supposed to have been published until 50 years after the archbishop historians death.
Available in several editions.
3254. Gortayre, Alberto. Los Guerrero, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia,
36:87 (ene./jun. 1956), 46-99.
3255. Grijalva, Carlos Emilio. Datos biogrficos de Gaspara Argandona, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 3:6 (jul./ago. 1921), 157-159.
3256. Grijalva, Carlos Emilio. Noticias de mi pegujal: antecedentes personales de Dn.
Martn Snchez Montero, fundador del Colegio de San Diego de Ibarra, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 27:69 (ene./jun. 1947), 96-105.
3257. Guarderas, Francisco. Mis pocas. Cali: Fernndez Morgado y Lahera, 1945. 350 p.
The memoirs of a diplomat and a Liberal politician.
3258. Guarderas, Francisco. El viejo de Montecristi, 2 ed. Puebla, Mxico: Cajica, 1965.
450 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Edit. La Unin, 1953. 453 p. Pro-Alfaro. Adds some
new data from private papers.
3259. Guerra Bravo, Samuel. Eugenio Espejo y sus cartas desde el exilio, Cultura, 4:10
(mayo/ago. 1981), 225-239.
Reprints and analyzes the letters the precursor wrote to his friend Father Luis Andramuo
while Espejo was in exile (1785-1788).
3260. Guerra Cceres, Alejandro. Zoila Ugarte Landivar: pionera del periodismo femenino
del Ecuador, 1 ed. [Guayaquil]: Vicerectorado Acadmico, 1990.
3261. Guevara, Daro. Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno, Amrica (Quito), 33:106 (dic. 1959), 737.
3262. Guevara, Daro. Juan Benigo Vela: titn del Liberalismo Radical ecuatoriano.
Ambato: Impr. Municipal, 1949-1950. 2 v.
3263. Guevara, Daro. Juan Len Mera, o, El hombre de cimas, 2 ed. rev. y aum. con
nuevas notas. Quito: D. Guevara, 1965. 296 p.
3264. Guevara, Daro. Olmedo: actor y cantor de la gran epopeya libertadora de Amrica.
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1958. 490 p.
A detailed, well researched (including archival), heavily documented study, replete with notes
and bibliography.
3265. Guilln y Tato, Julio F. Los tenientes de navo Jorge Juan y Santacilia y Antonio de
Ulloa de la Torre-Guiral y la medicin del meridiano. Madrid: [s.n.], 1936. xiv, 274 p.
3266. Guzmn, Jos Alejandro. Ttulos nobiliarios en el Ecuador. Madrid: Tip. Asilo de
Hurfanos del Sagrado Corazn de Jess, 1957. 334 p.
A useful reference work.
3267. Guzmn Polanco, Manuel de. Ignacio Flores, un quiteo precursor de la
independencia de Amrica, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 65:139/140 (ene./dic.
1982), 238-276.
Also published as: El ecuatoriano Ignacio Flores, precursor de una nueva Amrica, Cultura,
6:17 (sept./dic. 1983), 179-233.
3268. Hadatty Saltos, Juan. Manuel Rendn Seminario, 1894-1994, Cuadernos del
Guayas, 57 (jun. 1994), 13-36.
3269. Haro Alvear, Silvio Luis. Atahualpa Duchicela. Ibarra: Impr. Municipal, 1965. 130 p.
3270. El Hroe del Chimborazo, Sr. Enrique Garca Benlcazar. Quito: Edit. Vida
Catlica, 1962. 119 p.
3271. Heredia, Jos Flix. Notas bio-bibliogrficas acerca del R.P. Manuel Jos Proao,
S.J. Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1935. 211, cxxxiv p.
3272. Hernndez de Alba, Guillermo. Viaje de Espejo, el precursor ecuatoriano, a Santa
F, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 25:65 (ene./jun. 1945), 102-104.
3273. Herrera, Pablo. Apuntes biogrficos de don Jos Joaqun Olmedo. Quito: Impr. de
Juan P. Sanz, 1887. 51 p.
3274. Herrera, Pablo. Apuntes biogrficos del gran magistrado ecuatoriano Sr. Dr. Dn.
Gabriel Garca Moreno: recuerdo del primer centenario, 1821-1921. Quito: Prensa Catlica,
1921. 104 p.
Unabashedly pro-Garca Moreno. Herrera was the dictators private secretary for several
years.
3275. Hitt, Russell T. Jungle Pilot: the Life and Witness of Nate Saint. New York: Harper,
1959. 303 p.
3276. Hojas coloniales de servicios militares, [edicin de] Luis Noboa Icaza, Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 12:29/30 (1960), 32-46.
3277. Homenaje a la memoria del seor don Celso Fernndez de Crdova y Talbot. Cuenca:
Tip. Alianza, 1939. [56] p.
3278. Homenaje al general Julio Andrade: recopilacin de varios escritos en homenaje al
General Andrade. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1946. 142 p.
3279. Homenaje postumo al doctor Julio Tobar Donoso, 10 de marzo de 1981-10 de marzo
de 1982. Quito: Edit. Voluntad, 1982. 280 p.
3280. Huerta, Pedro Jos. El preceptor Wenceslao Echanique, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 1:1 (ene. 1951), 1-16; 2:4/5 (ago. 1952), 27-64.
A well researched study of a nineteenth-century educator of the port city. Echanique (18191883) had a long and distinguished career, but ended his days in an insane asylum.
3281. Hurtado, Osvaldo. Osvaldo Hurtado, autoretrato de un embustero, [compilador]
Dalton Bacigalupo, 1 ed. Quito: Impr. Andradecar, [1988?]. 46 p.
An interview.
3282. Idrobo Urigen, Tarquino Anbal. Vicente Rocafuerte: el Sarmiento del trpico.
Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1947. 158 p.
Reprinted: Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1984. 151 p.
3283. Ireland, J.E. De Courcy. Thomas Charles Wright: Soldier of Bolvar, Founder of the
Ecuadorian Navy, Irish Sword, 6:25 (Winter 1964), 271-275.
3284. Izaguirre, Bernardino. Biografa del Ilmo. y Rdmo. padre Fr. Jos Mara Masa:
obispo de Loja (Ecuador) (1815-1902). Barcelona: Librera y Tip. Catlica, 1904. 555 p.
3285. Jcome, Gustavo Alfredo. Luis Felipe Borja. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1947. 389 p.
Oddly enough, there appear to be only two detailed biographies of Luis Felipe Borja (padre), a
major jurist and politician. Exceptionally well researched. The other is item 3588.
3286. Jann Alvvar, Eugenio de. El viejo luchador: su vida heroica y su magna obra.
Quito: Edit. Abecedario Ilustrado; Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1948. 2 v. (1023 p.).
A detailed biography of Eloy Alfaro. Includes many primary sources.
3287. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. Atahualpa, creador de la nacionalidad quitea. Quito: Impr.
de la Universidad Central, 1936. 70 p.
3288. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. Montalvo poltico, Anales de la Universidad Central,
48:280 (abr./jun. 1932), 589-612.
3289. Jaramillo Palacio, Jos Mara. La fantstica realidad: relatos de la vida real. Quito:
Edit. Arboleda, 1989. 341 p.
3290. Jerves, Alfonso A. Un apstol del Amazonas, o, El muy reverendo padre predicador
general fray Reginaldo Mara Van Schoote de la O. de Predicadores, 1858-1936. Quito: Impr.
Santo Domingo, 1936. 33 p.
3291. Jerves, Alfonso A. D. Gil Ramrez Dvalos, fundador de Cuenca, Revista del Centro
de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 3 (jun. 1921), 221-256; 4 (sept. 1921), 289333; 5 (nov. 1921), 37-75; 6 (mayo 1922), 167-195; 7 (abr. 1923), 197-233; 8 (jul. 1923), 293369.
3292. Jerves, Alfonso A. El doctor Piedrahita (1834-1877), Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 134-154.
3293. Jerves, Alfonso A. Don Lorenzo de Cepeda, Corona de Mara, 40:462 (jul. 1939),
141-145; 40:463 (ago. 1939), 205-206; 40:464 (sept. 1939), 238-239; 40:465 (oct. 1939), 264269; 40:466 (nov. 1939), 317-320; 40:467 (dic. 1939), 350-354; 41:469 (feb. 1940), 68-71;
41:470 (mar. 1940), 112-114.
Cepeda (1519-1580) was a royal treasurer in Quito.
3294. Jerves, Alfonso A. Fundadores de Quito y sus escudos de armas: (apuntes herldicohistricos), Gaceta municipal (Quito), 19:79 (oct./dic. 1934), 173-191.
3295. Jerves, Alfonso A. Historia ecuatoriana: noticias biogrficas inditas, Corona de
Mara, 9:97 (ene. 1908), 26-30; 9:98 (feb. 1908), 68-73; 9:109 (dic. 1908), 690-693.
Consists of biographical sketches of colonial-period Jesuits of Cuenca.
3296. Jerves, Alfonso A. El reverendsimo Sr. Dr. Dn. Alejandro Matus, apstol de la
Accin Social Catlica: rasgos biogrfico-histricos. Quito: Impr. de Santo Domingo, 1941. 33
p.
3297. Jerves, Alfonso A. La venerable Madre Herrera (1717-1795), Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 189-193.
A biographical sketch of the mystic Sor Catalina de Jess Mara Herrera, author of the quasiautobiographical Secretos entre el alma y Dios--published as Autobiografa de la Vble. Madre
Sor Catalina de Jess Ma. Herrera : religiosa de Coro del Monasterio de Santa Catalina de
Quito (Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1950; 234 p.)--an important source on mentalits as well as
on religious in eighteenth-century Quito, especially as Sor Catalina de Jess did not hesitate to
delineate the laxity of clerics. That she was born in 1717 appears to be well established, but I
have seen three different years for her death (1792, 1795, and 1796).
3298. Jijn y Caamao, Jacinto. Sebastin de Benalczar. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 19361949 (i.e., 1950). 3 v.
Vol. 2 (1938): Edit. Ecuatoriana; vol. 3 (1949 [i.e., 1950]): Prensa Catlica. Perhaps the
most complete study of the founder of Quito that will ever be undertaken. Includes substantial
documentary appendices. An indispensable source on the Spanish conquest and the subsequent
civil wars. Vols. 1-2 available in reprint: Guayaquil: Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones,
1983. 2 v. (1,134 p.). (Anuario histrico jurdico ecuatoriano; 7-8)
3299. Jimnez, Nicols. Biografa del ilustrsimo Federico Gonzlez Surez. Quito: Archivo
Municipal, 1936. xx, 290, lxxix p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 11)
Includes the archbishop historians Memorias ntimas (item 3253).
3313. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Don Isaas Toro Ruiz: 1894-1982, Sociedad Amigos de la
Genealoga, 1:1 (mar. 1983), 2-11.
3314. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Estudios inditos sobre Espejo, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 63:135/136 (ene./dic. 1980), 67-96.
3315. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Los Larrea: burocracia, tenencia de la tierra, poder
poltico, crisis, retorno al poder y papel en la cultura ecuatoriana. Quito: Sociedad Amigos de
la Genealoga, 1986. 239 p. (S.A.G.; vol. 22)
3316. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Loja, los Palacio y Pablo Palacio, Coleccin Amigos de la
Genealoga, 21 (jun. 1986), 91-134.
3317. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. La migracin internacional a Quito entre 1534 y 1934.
Quito: Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga, 1989-. <3> v.
Notes on foreign born who settled or temporarily resided in Quito from its foundation as a
Spanish city through its fourth centennial.
Partial contents: t. 1, A-Cl; t.2, Co-Gaz; t. 3, G-L.
3318. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Los Noboa de la sierra: estudio histrico-genealgico,
sociolgico y sicodinmico. Quito: Academia Nacional de Historia, 1985. 323 p. (Coleccin
Amigos de la Genealoga; no. 18)
3319. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Las noches de los libertadores. Quito: Ediciones IADAP,
1991. 2 v.
On the mistresses and other lovers of Simn Bolvar, and the paramours and offspring of Jos
de San Martn, Antonio Jos de Sucre, and Jos Ramn de Sucre.
3320. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Notas genealgicas sobre familias de Esmeraldas y su
provincia, Coleccin Amigos de la Genealoga, 27 (abr. 1987), 209-240.
3321. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Nueva revisin sobre el poblamiento genealgico de la
Provincia de Esmeraldas, Coleccin Amigos de la Genealoga, 30 (jul. 1987), 102-111.
3322. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Nuevo enfoque sobre origen regional, estatus, grado
cultural y estado econmico migrante de los conquistadores y colonizadores de Quito, Revista
del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 10 (1990), 115-132.
An interim report on the authors research into the origins of the conquistadores and
colonizers of Quito. The results of his research are suspicious, however. According to his
alleged random sample, 70 percent of Spaniards who settled in the future Ecuador were nobles,
hidalgos o hidalguelos y apenas el 25% eran del estado llano y de la base popular.
3323. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Origen y evolucin de los Garcs en el Ecuador, Sociedad
Amigos de la Genealoga, 4 (mar. 1984), 33-163.
3324. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Orgenes de Luis A. Martnez, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 54:118 (jul./dic. 1971), 253-280.
A modern hagiography of Santa Rosa de Lima and Santa Mariana de Jess of Quito.
3336. Kingsland, Rosemary. A Saint Among Slaves. London: Collins, 1980. 183 p.
An appreciation of Rachel Saint (d. 1994), the self-appointed savior of the Huaorani.
3337. Lamontagne, Roland. La vie et louvre de Pierre Bouguer. Montreal: Presses de
lUniversit de Montreal; Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1964. viii, 97 p.
Bouguer (1698-1758) was a member of the Mission godsique of 1736.
3338. Lara, Daro. Eugenio Espejo: la influencia francesa en el escritor y el precursor,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 73:155/156 (ene./dic. 1990), 11-49.
3339. Lara, Daro. Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy: viajero y testigo de la historia ecuatoriana.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988. 317 p.
Lafond, a commercial agent, spent most of the 1820s in Ecuador, largely in Guayaquil, but he
also visited Quito in 1826, and was well acquainted with the liberators and other period players
in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. See also item 7342.
3340. Lara, Daro. Gonzalo Zaldumbide, ministro plenipotenciario del Ecuador en Pars,
1923-1929, Cultura, 3:7 (mayo/ago. 1980), 120-136.
3341. Lara, Daro. Juan Montalvo en Paris. Quito: Subsecretara de Cultura; Ambato:
Municipio de Ambato, 1983-. <1> v. (270 p.)
Cover title: Montalvo en Paris. Will probably turn out to be another of Laras only vol.
works.
3342. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Acta de defuncin del historiador padre Juan de Velasco y el
lugar de su enterramiento, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 31:71 (ene./jun. 1951),
5-11.
3343. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Antonio Flores Jijn: su vida y sus obras. Quito: Corporacin
de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1974. 281 p.
A detailed, generally reliable work.
3344. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. El arzobispo mrtir Ilmo. y Rvdmo. Sr. Dr. don Jos Ignacio
Checa y Barba. Quito: Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1973. 165 p.
Primarily a study of the assassination of Archbishop Checa, a supporter of Garca Moreno.
Largely based on the Juicio criminal seguido contra autores y cmplices del envenenamiento del
Viernes Santo de 1877. Factually sound but hardly objective inasmuch as Larrea was
unabashedly pro-Checa, Church, and Garca Moreno.
3345. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Rasgos biogrficos de don Lorenzo de Cepeda, hermano de
Santa Teresa de Jess que vivi largos aos en Quito, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 57:123 (ene./jun. 1974), 5-15.
3346. Larrea, Gregorio Csar de. Genealogas quiteas: la casa de Ontan y sus enlazados
en la Presidencia de Quito. Quito: Grf. Vanesa Raquel, 1994. 224 p.
3347. Laso, Elas. Biografa del general Juan Jos Flores, Boletn de la Academia Nacional
de Historia, 8:21/23 (ene./jun. 1924), 95-145.
3348. Laso, Elas. Biografa del general Juan Jos Flores, Revista del Archivo de la
Biblioteca Nacional, 1:1 (1937), 169-183.
Supposedly faithful to the original whereas the version published in the Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia (see item 3347) was apparently altered by the editor of the
Boletn. Be that as it may, item 3348 is a partial reprint of the first edition, originally published
in Los Andes in 1864.
3349. Latorre, Octavio. Manuel J. Cobos, emperador de Galpagos. Quito: Fundacin
Charles Darwin para las Islas Galpagos, 1991. xii, 136 p.
3350. Laviana Cuetos, Mara Luisa. Un ejemplo de adaptacin a Amrica: el malagueo
don Miguel de Olmedo en Guayaquil, Primeras Jornadas de Andaluca y Amrica (Huelva:
Instituto de Estudios Onubenses, 1981), p. 97-113.
A well documented study of a virtually forgotten figure in the history of the port city and its
district, Miguel Agustn de Olmedo y Troyano, an important figure in his own right, not just the
father of Jos Joaqun.
3351. Le Gouhir y Rodas, Jos. Glorias ecuatorianas. Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1935. 228
p.
A set of essays on major figures of the 1800s and early 1900s.
3352. Le Gouhir Rodas, Jos Mara. Un gran americano: Garca Moreno en su centenario,
2 ed. Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1923. 470 p.
Originally published as: Un gran americano. Quito: Tip. y Encuadernacin de la Prensa
Catlica, 1921. 392 p. Pro-Garca Moreno.
3353. Len, Luis A. Atabalipa (Atahualpa) rey de los Otavalos: investigacin patronmica
del monarca quiteo, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 65:139/140 (ene./dic. 1982),
65-76.
3354. Len, Luis A. El doctor Jos Mascote. Quito: Edit. Rumiahui, 1952. 47 p.
3355. Len, Luis A. Semblanza del seor Jorge A. Garcs Garcs, Revista del Ncleo de
Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:24 (jul. 1979), 121-135.
3356. Lenidas Proao, 25 aos obispo de Riobamba. Riobamba: Instituto Diocesano de
Pastoral de Riobamba; Lima: Centro de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1979. 293 p.
3357. Lenidas Proao, Freud der Indianer: ein Portrt des Bischofs der Dizese Riobamba
in Ecuador, herausgegeben von Enrique Rosner; mit Beitragen von Agustn Bravo Muoz [et
al.]. Freiburg: Exodus, 1986. 208 p.
3358. Leoro, Jos M. Un coterrneo ilustre: don Pedro Moncayo y Esparza. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Nacionales, 1934. 177 p.
Reprinted as: Don Pedro Moncayo. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1954. 170 p. And
as: La vida de don Pedro Moncayo. Quito: Presidencia de la Repblica, Comisin Nacional
Permanente de Conmemoraciones Cvicas; Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin,
1988. 166 p.
3359. Loor, Wilfrido. Biografa del Rmo. Padre Julio Mara Matovelle. Quito: Litogr. e
Impr. Romero, 1943. xxxviii, 506 p.
A detailed, well researched but far from unbiased account of the founder of the Oblates in
Quito. Matovelle also played a major role in Church and state politics and disputes of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. That both biographee and biographer were anti-Liberal
goes without saying.
3360. Loor, Wilfrido. Eloy Alfaro. Quito: Impr. Editora Moderna, 1947. 3 v. (1064 p.)
3361. Loor, Wilfrido. Eloy Alfaro, 2 ed. corr. Quito: Tall. Grf. Minerva, 1982. xvi, 810
p.
Items 3360 and 3361 are relatively objective notwithstanding the authors ideological and
political conservatism. More importantly they are exceptionally detailed, well researched and
heavily documented. Also they are important sources of information on the politics and related
events of the second half of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth.
3362. Loor, Wilfrido. Garca Moreno y sus asesinos, 2 ed. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1966.
327 p.
On Manuel Polanco, Abelardo Moncayo, Roberto Andrade, Manuel Cornejo Astorja,
Gregorio Campuzano, Francisco Snchez, Fautino Rayo
Lemos, and Juan Montalvo.
3363. Loor, Wilfrido. Jos Mara Yerovi. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1964 [i.e.,
1965]-1968. 2 v.
More of a hagiography than biography of Yerovi (1819-1867), an auxiliary bishop of Quito
who is credited with reform of the clergy in the 1860s and whose beatification the Ecuadorian
hierarchy has been promoting.
3364. Loor, Wilfrido. Monseor Arsenio Andrade Landzuri. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana,
1970. 326 p.
Arsenio Andrade (1825-1905), bishop of Riobamba (1885-1905), like Archbishop Checa may
also have been assassinated through poisoning. Whether he was or not, Loor implies that he was
and that Masons were responsible. More importantly yet another work by Loor that is rich in
generally reliable, well documented data as well as biases.
3365. Lucena Salmoral, Manuel. Sebastin de Benalczar. Madrid: Historia 16, 1987. 156
p.
A popular biography.
3366. Luis Vargas Torres: homenaje, compilador, Leonardo Espinoza, 1 ed. Cuenca:
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales; Quito: Asociacin de Historiadores del Ecuador, 1987.
xviii, 230 p.
3367. Luna, Miguel M. La casa solariega de los Larretegui, 1878-1895. Guayaquil:
Librera de E.A. Uzctegui, 1943. 80 p.
3368. Luna Yepez, Jorge. Garca Moreno: fue conservador?, fue liberal?, fue
revolucionario?, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 58:125 (ene./jun. 1975), 151161.
An exercise in ekstasis and hyperbole that contributes absolutely nothing to understanding of
Garca Moreno, but that does serve to exemplify the extent to which his memory continues to
inflame ideological and political as well as historiographic passions.
3369. Luzuriaga Celi, Antonio. Vida y virtudes del siervo de Dios Ilmo. Sr. Dr. Dn. Fr. Jos
Mara Yerovi: obispo de Cidonia y arzobispo electo de Quito. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1933.
125 p.
3370. Lloret Bastidas, Antonio. Un valioso educator: Jos Vicente Andrade y Arzaga, 19111952: silueta biogrfica y enfoque de su obra. Cuenca: Edit. Amazonas, 1956. 27 p.
3371. Madera, Luis F. Federico Gonzlez Surez, 1 ed. Quito: Artes Grficas Seal, 1982.
111 p.
3372. Madera, Luis F. Modesto Lpez, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia,
25:65 (ene./jun. 1945), 105-114.
A tribute to the leading road engineer of the nineteenth century. Lpez career spanned the
years 1862-1899.
3373. Madera, Luis F. El pintor Rafael Troya, Museo Histrico, 17:51 (abr./jun. 1971),
233-256.
3374. Malo, Benigno. Escritos y discursos. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1940. 518 p.
3375. Manrique Arvalo, Pedro. El prcer de la Gran Colombia, coronel Manuel de
Echeanda: con algunas noticias sobre la vida de su ilustre padre don Fernando de Echeanda y
Silva. Caracas: Americana, 1922. xv, 98 p.
3376. Manuel Medina Castro: 70 aos, homenaje. Guayaquil: Departamento de
Publicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil, 1986. 102 p.
3377. Mariscal de Guevara, Mara Luisa. Jos Joaqun de Olmedo: poeta y luchador.
Guayaquil: Edit. del Pacfico, 1981. 138 p.
3378. Mrquez, Ezequiel. Fr. Vicente Solano. Cuenca: Tip. de la Universidad, 1928. 72 p.
3379. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Biografa del General Isidro Barriga: esposo de la Marquesa
de Solanda viuda del mariscal de Ayacucho Antonio Jos de Sucre, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 53:115 (ene./jun. 1970), 77-86; 53:116 (jul./dic. 1970), 289-304.
3394. Masur, Gerhard. Simon Bolivar, rev. ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico
Press, 1969. xiv, 572 p.
A standard, now classic biography of the Liberator. Factually sound, scholarly, sympathetic
yet objective. The first English edition (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1948)
was also published in Spanish as: Simn Bolvar (Mxico: Edit. Grijalbo, 1960).
3396. Mata, G. Humberto. Manuel J. Calle: ngel enmascarado de demonio, introduccin de
Antonio Lloret Bastidas. Cuenca: Consejo Provincial del Azuay, Departamento de Cultura,
1980. 263 p.
3397. Mata, G. Humberto. Manuelita Senz, la mujer providencia de Bolvar: homenaje a
Cuenca, Guayaquil y Quito en el sesquicentenario de la Batalla de el Pichincha. Cuenca:
Editorial-Biblioteca Cenit, 1972. 179 p.
3398. Mata, G. Humberto. Refutacin a Las cuatro estaciones de Manuela: los amores de
Manuela Senz y Simn Bolvar. Cuenca: Impr. de D. Toral L., 1959. 155 p.
See item 3694.
3399. Mata, G. Humberto. Remigio Crespo Toral. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1959. 445 p.
3400. Mata, G. Humberto. Vida y hazaas del muy ilustre seor don Luis Villaviencio,
Atacocos, 6a ed. Cuenca: Offset Hermano Miguel, 1982. 38 p.
3401. Matamoros Jara, Carlos. Necrologa del profesor Gustavo Lemos R., Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 4:4/6 (1934-1936), 3-8.
3402. Matovelle, Julio Mara. Obras completas. Cuenca: Congregacin de Padres Oblatos,
1979-1980. 4 v. in 5.
Contents: t. 1, Memorias (2 v.); t. 2, Poesa y periodismo; t. 3, Oratoria; t. 4, Ciencias
polticas.
3403. Maxwell-Scott, Mary Monica. Gabriel Garca Moreno: Regenerator of Ecuador.
London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1914. 169 p.
3404. Mecum, Kent B. Vicente Rocafuerte: el prcer andante, 2 ed. rev. Guayaquil: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1983. 286 p.
Rev. ed. of: El idealismo prctico de Vicente Rocafuerte (Puebla, Mxico: Cajica, 1975). One
of the better biographies of Rocafuerte.
3405. Meja, Jos. Epistolario, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 36:87
(ene./jun. 1956), 117-119.
3406. Mera, Juan Len. Garca Moreno: libro indito de Juan Len Mera. Quito: Impr. del
Clero, 1904. iv, 242 p.
An unfinished, posthumously published work. Advances as far as Garca Morenos early
adulthood. Mera maintained that the excesses of Garca Moreno should be forgiven, given the
circumstances of the time and the needs of the country.
3407. Michael, Ib. Reisen til det gronne firben: en dokumentarisk beretning, 3. udg.
Kobenhav: Gvdendal, 1984. 205 p.
The life of the revolutionary Ernesto Tseremp Juanka.
3408. Mio, Reinaldo. Rumiahui, defensor de Quito. Quito: Confederacin de
Trabajadores del Ecuador, 1990. 248 p.
Important as a statement of how the Left views this hero and the Spanish conquest. More
fictional than factional, however.
Reprinted: Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1994. 214 p.
3409. Miranda Ribadeneira, Francisco. Pablo Muoz Vega: un humanismo eclesial para el
hombre de hoy, 1 ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1993. 240 p. (Biblioteca de la revista
Cultura; 12)
3410. Mogolln Cobo, Mara; and Ximena Narvez Yar. Manuela Senz: presencia y
polmica en la historia, 1a ed. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1997. 171 p. (Biblioteca
de historia ecuatoriana; v. 15)
3411. Molina Garca, Gonzalo. El capitn Francisco Pacheco en la conquista de Amrica:
fundador de la ciudad de Portoviejo (Ecuador). Madrid: Fundacin Universitaria Espaola,
1986. 267 p.
Also an important work on the early history of the central and southern coast.
3412. Moncayo, Abelardo. Estudios biogrficos: vida del Dr. Mariano Acosta. Ibarra:
Colegio Nacional, 1894. 76 p.
3413. Moncayo Andrade, Abelardo. Principios polticos y administrativos del general Julio
Andrade. Quito: [s.n.], 1925. vii, 47 p.
3414. Moncayo Andrade, Abelardo. Ral Andrade: crnica de un cronista. Quito: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1991. 129 p.
3415. Moncayo de Monge, Germania. Mariana de Jess, seora de Indias. Quito: Prensa
Catlica, 1950. 310 p.
3416. Monge, Celiano. Abogado y prcer: (el Sr. Dn. Francisco Javier Salazar), Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de Historia, 12:33/35 (ene./jun. 1931), 73-76.
3417. Monroy, Joel Lenidas. El R. P. Ontaneda y el fundador de la Recoleccin del Tejar.
Quito: Tip. y Encuad. Salesianas, 1909. viii, 136 p.
3418. Monroy Garaicoa, Gustavo. Guayaquileos notables del coloniaje: el capitn Juan de
Robles y Alfonso, estudio genealgico de la familia Robles, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 3:3 (1933), 128-147.
3419. Monroy Garaicoa, Gustavo. Guayaquileos notables del coloniaje: el doctor Jos
Ignacio Moreno y Silva de Santistevan, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 2:2
(1932), 45-48.
3420. Monroy y Borja, Bolvar. Los orgenes de los Cordovez, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 139-150.
3421. Monsalve, Jos D. Antonio de Villavicencio: el protomartir y la revolucin de la
independencia. Bogot: Impr. Nacional, 1920. 2 v.
A well researched study of the neograndino who played a major role in the second Junta de
Quito. Extensively documented.
3422. Montalvo, Antonio. Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Nacionales, 1947. 143 p.
3423. Montalvo, Juan. Cartas de Montalvo a su sobrino. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador,
1981. 360 p.
3424. Montalvo, Juan. Montalvo en su epistolario: 362 cartas ntimas y cartas sobre asuntos
polticos y literarios entre Juan Montalvo y grandes personalidades del Ecuador, Amrica,
Espaa y Europa, recopilacin, introduccin, notas y comentarios por Roberto D. Agramonte, 1
ed. Ro Piedras, P.R.: Edit. de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1982. xv, 456 p.
3425. Montenegro Murgueytio, M. Perfil de un hombre: el Sr. Tnte. Jos M. Snchez
Carrin, comandante en jefe de las guerrillas liberales del ocho de febrero de 1947. Quito:
Impr. Fernndez, 1948. 48 p.
3426. Montero Carrin, Jos Antonio. Maestros de ayer y de hoy: valores de la medicina
ecuatoriana. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1962-1968. 3 v.
T. 2-3: Tall. Grf. del Colegio Militar. Consists of biographies of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury physicians.
3427. Mora, Alba Luz. Presencia de la mujer lojana. Quito: Asociacin Lojana 18 de
Noviembre de Quito, 1983. 89 p.
3428. Mora Ortega, Jorge. Relatos y siluetas. Loja: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo
de Loja, 1980. 179 p.
Includes biographies of Po Jaramillo Alvarado, Isidro Ayora, Pablo Palacio, Angel Felcismo
Roja, Maximiliano Rodrguez, and other lojanos.
3429. Morn de Butrn, Jacinto. Vida de Santa Mariana de Jess, edicin crtica por Aurelio
Espinosa Plit. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1955. 600 p.
An extensively annotated edition of the principal hagiography of the Lilly of Quito. The
author was a guayaquileo and a Jesuit (1668-1749).
Originally published in abridgement as: La Azucena de Quito, que brot en el florido campo
de la Iglesia en las Indias Occidentales, la venerable virgen Mariana de Jess, Flores y Paredes
... Lima: Por Jos de Contreras, impressor real, 1702. The complete version, however, had to
wait until 1724: La Azucena de Quito, que brot en el florido campo de la Iglesia en las Indias
Occidentales de los Reynos del Per y cultiv con los esmeros de su enseanza la Compaia de
Jesus, la V. virgen Mariana de Jesus Paredes y Flores (Madrid: G. del Barrio). Reprinted:
Madrid, 1853, 1856, and 1896. Also: Mexico: Imprenta Real de el Superior Govierno de los
Herederos de la Viuda de Miguel de Rivera, 1732.
3430. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Resumen alfabtico del Primer libro de matrimonios de
espaoles en la Parroquia de El Sagrario de Quito, 1723-1764 Revista del Archivo Histrico del
Guayas, 7:14 (dic. 1978), 81-182.
By Primer libro Moreno Egas meant the first extant register. See also Moreno Egass
Resumen alfabtico del segundo libro de matrimonios de espaoles de la Parroquia de El
Sagrario de Quito, 1764-1805, Revista del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y
Antropolgicas, 1:3 (nov. 1981), 195-281.
3431. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Resumen alfabtico del tercer libro de matrimonios de espaoles
de la Parroquia de El Sagrario de Quito, 1804-1836, Revista del Centro Nacional de
Investigaciones Genealgicas y Antropolgicas, 3:5 (nov. 1983), 265-305.
See also Moreno Egass Otros datos matrimoniales registrados en la Catedral de Quito, 18201829, Revista del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y Antropolgicas, 11:9 (jul.
1991), 135-146.
3432. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Vecinos de la Catedral de Quito bautizados entre 1801 y 1831.
Quito: Offset Ecuador, 1984. 188 p.
Abstracts and analyzes baptisms of 1,153 white infants in the Sagrario between 1801 and
1831.
3433. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Vecinos de la Catedral de Quito fallecidos entre 1704 y 1800, 1
ed. Quito: Offset Ecuador, 1989. 388 p.
3434. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Vecinos de la Catedral de Quito fallecidos entre 1801 y 1831.
Quito: Offset Ecuador, 1988. 215 p.
Items 3430-3434 are important historical demographic as well as genealogical sources.
3435. Moreno Mora, Luis. Breve resea de la vida del Rmo. Sr. Dr. D. Julio Mara
Matovelle. Cuenca: Tip. Salesiana, 1939. 106 p.
3436. Moreno Mora, Vicente. El camino de un asceta: (pequea biografa del Rmo. P. Dr.
Jos Julio Mara Matovelle, fundador de los oblatos). Cuenca: Edit. Amazonas, 1951. 121 p.
3437. Moreno Mora, Vicente. Jos Mara Aguirre. Cuenca: [s.n.], 1939. 40 p.
3438. Moreno Proao, Agustn. Cronologa de la vida de Fray Jodoco Rique, fundador del
Convento de San Francisco de Quito (1.499-1.575), Revista, Instituto de Historia Eclesistica
Ecuatoriana, 2 (1976), 25-52.
3439. Moreno Proao, Agustn. Relacin de los mritos del presbtero don Juan Pablo Santa
Cruz y Espejo: 1805 y 1825, Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 7
(1983), 139.
Publishes with an introductory study the 1805 and 1825 relaciones de mritos of Juan Pablo
Espejo.
3440. Moreno Umaa, Jaime. Mercedes de Jess: anlisis de una rosa escarlata.
Guayaquil: Instituto Santa Mariana de Jess, 1983. 167 p.
3441. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E. Don Leandro Sepla y Oro, un cacique andino de finales
de la colonia: estudio biogrfico, Memoria del primer Simposio Europeo sobre Antropologa
del Ecuador (item 603), p. 223-244.
3442. Moscoso Dvila, Isabel. Abanico de recuerdos. Cuenca: [s.n.], 1970. 182 p.
Consists of biographies of prominent Ecuadorian women.
3443. Moscoso Dvila, Isabel. Elega y glorificacin de la maestra. Cuenca: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1961. 64 p.
3444. Moscoso Dvila, Isabel. Rosas y floracin de una estirpe gloriosa. Cuenca: Edit.
Amazonas, 1985-1986. 2 v. (772 p.)
3445. Muoz, Jos E. Los Condes de Chinchn en la historia de la ciencia y en la poltica
colonial espaola. Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1954. 28 p.
3446. Muoz Borrero, Eduardo. Un acadmico en los altares: el beato Hermano Miguel de
las Escuelas Cristianas, 1854-1910. Quito: [s.n.], 1984. 162 p.
3447. Muoz Borrero, Eduardo. Con los pies torcidos por el camino recto: vida del
Hermano Miguel del Instituto Lasallano, 2 ed. Madrid: Villena Artes Grficas, 1978. 315 p.
3448. Muoz Borrero, Eduardo. En el Palacio de Carondelet: del Presidente Flores al
Presidente Hurtado, 1830-1981, 1 ed. Quito: Artes Grficas Seal, 1981. 694 p.
A basic reference work. As of July 1997 the most recent edition appears to have been: En el
Palacio de Carondelet: del Presidente Flores al Presidente Borja, 1830-1988, 3 ed. Quito:
Artes Grficas Seal, 1988. 720 p.
3449. Muoz Cueva, Manuel M. Una vida morlaca: Nicanor Aguilar. Cuenca: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1951. 207 p.
3450. Muoz Garca, Hugo. Pequeas grandes biografas, 1 ed. en espaol. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1992. 220 p.
A set of anecdotal accounts of and interviews with Alfredo Prez Guerrero, Vctor Mideros,
Oscar Efrn Reyes, Carlota Jaramillo, Marieta Viteri, Juan Isaac Lovato, Ernesto Albn, Angel
Isaac Chiriboga, Piedad Larrea Borja, and Camilo Gallegos. Orginally published in Ultimas
noticias (Quito).
3451. Muoz Vicua, Elas. Biografa de Olmedo: ensayo. Guayaquil: Impr. de la
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1980. 144 p.
3452. Muoz Vicua, Elas. Los generales no corren. Guayaquil: Impr. de la Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1981. 149 p.
A biography of Eloy Alfaro.
3453. Muoz Vicua, Elas. La personalidad histrica de Vicente Rocaferte, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 66:141/142 (ene./dic. 1983), 109-124.
3454. Muoz Vicua, Elas. Primero entre iguales. Guayaquil: Litogr. e Impr. de la
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1984. 196 p.
A biography of Carlos Concha Torres.
3455. Murillo Ordez, Emilio. El gegrafo Manuel Villavicencio y Montfar, Revista del
Ncleo del Azuay y de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 8:9 (1959), 14-30.
3456. Naranjo, Plutarco. Montalvo, semblanza y enseanzas. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1966. 364 p.
3457. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. La descendencia de Atahualpa, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 11:30/32 (jun./dic. 1930), 89-96; 20:56 (jul./dic. 1940), 216-222.
3458. Navas, Juan de Dios. Despus de un siglo: el Ilmo. Rafael Lasso de la Vega, obispo de
Mrida y de Quito, 1764-1831. Quito: Escuela Tip. Salesiana, 1931. 37 p.
3459. Nicholas, Alison. Consorts and Castles: the Story of Three Women and Their Homes,
1 ed. New York: Vantage Press, 1970. 265 p.
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A popular account of the lives and mansions of the consorts of Maximilian (the Emperior of
Mexico), Napoleon I, and Bolvars celebrated mistress Manuela Senz.
3460. Noboa Icaza, Luis. Estudios sobre Olmedo, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del
Guayas, 1973. 124 p.
3461. Noboa Icaza, Luis. Genealoga de la casa de Noboa de Guayaquil, Revista del
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y Antropolgicas, 3:5 (nov. 1983), 15-95.
Exceptionally useful. Includes dates, some biographical data, and portraits of various
members of the Noboa family.
3462. Noboa Icaza, Luis. Hojas coloniales de servicios militares, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 12:29/30 (1960), 32-46.
Abstracts service records of officers who served in Guayaquil during the colonial period.
3463. Nogales Hidalgo, Octavio. Ensayo de investigacin biogrfica sobre el adelantado
Sebastin de Benalczar, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 44:99 (ene./jun. 1962),
60-86.
3464. Nuez, Sergio. Grandes hombres del Ecuador: perfiles biogrficos. Guayaquil: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1980. 2 v.
3465. Nuez, Sergio. Un hombre y su poca ante la historia. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco
Ricke, 1952. 89 p.
The life and times of Francisco Chiriboga Bustamante.
3466. Oberem, Udo. Ein Beispeil fr die soziale Selbsteinschtzung des indianischen
Hochadels im kolonialzeitlichen Quito, Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv, n.f., 5:3 (1979), 215-225.
Publishes and analyzes five letters of Doa Barbara Atagualpa--also written Atabaipa,
Ataualipa, and Atabalipa--Ynga, a great great granddaughter of Atahualpa, from 1610-1613.
Also published in Spanish as: Un Ejemplo de autovaloracin social entre la alta nobleza
indgena del Quito colonial, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 2:2 (1982), 125-134.
3467. Oberem, Udo. Notas y documentos sobre miembros de la familia del Inca Atahualpa
en el siglo XVI. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1976. 78, 325 p.
(Estudios etnohistricos del Ecuador; 1)
3468. Oberem, Udo. Sancho Hacho: un cacique mayor del siglo XVI. Quito: CEDECO:
Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1993. 139 p.
3469. Ochoa Ullauri, Rosendo. Proto mdico cuencano: Dr. Jos Alvear Alvardo, 18411896. Cuenca: Colegio de Mdicos del Azuay, 1980. 66 p.
3470. Ojeda Castillo, Enrique. Jorge Carrera Andrade: introduccin al estudio de su vida y
de su obra. New York: E. Torres, 1972. 431 p.
3471. Ontaneda Plit, Max. Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo: examen de su obra. Quito:
Abya-Yala, [1988?] 168 p.
3472. Oquendo, Diego. Frente a frente, 2 ed. Quito: Crculo de Lectores, 1979. 319 p.
A series of biographical sketches of prominent nationals from the authors column, Frente a
frente, in El Tiempo (Quito), 1965-1979.
3473. Oquendo, Diego. Los presidenciables: 10 alternativas para el Ecuador. Quito:
Planeta, 1987. 203 p.
Consists of biographies and platforms of the ten candidates for the presidency in 1988.
3474. Ordez Zamora, Aurelio. Eloy Alfaro. Cuenca: Departamento de Difusin Cultural,
Universidad de Cuenca, 1983. 363 p.
3475. Ordez Zamora, Aurelio. Gabriel Garca Moreno: estudio crtico-histrico. Cuenca:
[s.n.], 1969. 469 p.
One of the few relatively objective, scholarly sound studies.
3476. Ortega Ricaurte, Enrique. Juan Daz de Hidalgo, de los primeros alcaldes y regidores
de Quito y Santaf de Bogot, Gaceta Municipal (Quito), 19:79 (oct./dic. 1934), 30-40.
3477. Ortiz, Sergio Elas. Notas para la biografa del obispo Jos Cuero y Caicedo, prcer
de la independencia, Boletn de historia y antigedades, 57:663/665 (ene./mar. 1970), 111-161.
3478. Ortiz Bilbao, Luis Alfonso. El adelantado gobernador y capitn don Sebastin
Benalczar, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 71:151/152 (ene./dic. 1988), 19-42.
3479. Ortiz Bilbao, Luis Alfonso. Juan de Argello, procurador de Quito, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 54:117 (ene./jun. 1971), 99-126.
A solid but poorly articulated essay on Quito and Benlcazars representative at court in 1538.
3480. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. De hidalgo castellano a empresario colonial:
Rodrigo Salazar, encomendero y obrajero de Quito, 1510-1584, Anuario de estudios
americanos, 42 (1985), 43-126.
3481. Otras semblanzas, por Remigio Crespo Toral; Ante la estatua de Crespo Toral, por
Carlos Arroyo del Ro; Discurso de Carlos Aguilar Maldonado; juicio crtico, compilacin y
notas de Vctor Manuel Albornoz. Cuenca: [s.n.], 1964. lxvi, 229 p.
3482. Padilla Mera, Miguel. Una familia troncal en el Carchi: los Salazar Carrera,
Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga, 1:2 (sept. 1983), 73-114.
3483. Pez, J. Roberto. El bigrafo de la Azucena de Quito, Jacinto Morn de Butrn, S.J.,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 26:66 (jul./dic. 1945), 193-200.
3484. Pez, J. Roberto. Pedro Ordez de Ceballos: (el clrigo agradecido), Museo
Histrico, 43/44 (ago. 1963), 109-120.
3485. Pez Fuentes, Luis. El hermano Miguel: maestro ejemplar. Quito: Grf. Iberia, 1977.
80 p.
3486. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. La hoguera brbara: vida de Eloy Alfaro. Mxico, D.F.:
Compaa General Editora, 1944. 310 p.
Historical fiction--to be understood as historia ficticia, not as ficcin histrica--paraded as
scholarship. Decidedly pro-Alfaro. See also the edicin revisada y anotada por el autor
(Guayaquil: Publicaciones Educativas Ariel, 1975; 2 v.) in which Pareja Diezcanseco modified
his interpretation of Plazas role in Alfaros lynching. There are also 3 and 4 editions:
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1986; Quito: Comisin Nacional Permanente de
Conmemoraciones Cvicas: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1992.
3487. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. Vida y leyenda de Miguel de Santiago. Mxico: Fondo
de Cultura Econmica, 1952. 132 p.
An exercise in biographical fiction/fictional biography.
3488. Parra Espinosa, Adolfo. Antologa de artistas, compositores y profesionales
ecuatorianos. Cuenca: Publicaciones y Papeles, 1983. 296 p.
A potpourri of biographical sketches of Ecuadorian artists, composers, and prominent
professionals.
3489. Pasquel, Manuel. Memorias de un maestro: para que lean mis hijos. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1992. 154 p.
The memoirs of a school teacher (1838-1880) in Ibarra. An important source as to daily life in
the northern highlands during the nineteenth century.
3490. Payaguaje, Fernando. El bebedor de yaje. Shushufindi-Ro Aguarico: Vicariato
Apostlico de Aguarico, 1990. 123 p.
The autobiography of a Secoya shaman.
3491. Paz, Clotario E. Larrea Alba, nuestras izquierdas. Guayaquil: Impr. Tribuna Libre,
1938. 268 p.
A study of the political career of General Luis Larrea Alba, the founder of the Vanguardia
Revolucionaria Socialista Ecuatoriana.
3492. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. Contribucin al estudio de la sociedad colonial del antiguo
Reino de Quito: los Jijn, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 21:57 (ene./jun. 1941),
53-78.
3493. Paz y Mio Cepeda, Juan Jos. Eloy Alfaro y el americanismo liberal, Islas (Santa
Clara, Cuba), 83 (ene./abr. 1986), 69-96.
3494. Pea Astudillo, Miguel Angel. 200 aos y una vida: B. general de brigada de la
independencia de la Gran Colombia Dr. Antonio Morales Galavis: su descendencia en el
Ecuador, IX-6-1784-IX-6-1984. Cuenca: Edit. Universitaria Catlica, 1984. 387 p.
3495. Peaherrera Albn, Luis Antonio. El terrible Ruperto. Quito: Impr. Gran Colombia,
1949. 173 p.
A biography of Ruperto Alarcn Falconi, a prominent politician and diplomat.
3496. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad. Biografa del padre Juan Gualberto Lobato,
redentorista: indio misionero de los indios. Riobamba: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo
del Chimborazo, 1954. 83 p.
3497. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Don Pedro
Fernndez Correcha: sus ascendientes y servicios prestados, Sociedad de Amigos de la
Genealoga, 1:1 (mar. 1983), 114-122.
3498. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. El general Vctor
Proao: explorador del territorio Shuar, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala: Sociedad Amigos
de la Genealoga, 1994. 209 p.
3499. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Huayna Capac.
Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1964. 326 p.
Includes chapters on the ethnic groups of the future Ecuador on the eve of the Inca conquest,
on the Inca conquest, and Paccha Duchicela, madre de Atahualpa.
3500. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Los Maldonado en
la Real Audiencia de Quito. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1987. 220 p.
A historical genealogical study of the Maldonado family during the colonial period.
Emphasizes the life and work of Pedro Vicente Maldonado.
3501. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. La real familia
Duchicela. Quito: Estudios Ediciones y Medios, EDYM, 1992. 246 p.
A history of the Duchicela under the Incas and the Spaniards. Whether they constituted a
royal family depends upon whether one accepts the Reino de Quito as having existed prior to
the Spanish conquest.
3502. Peaherrera S., Luca. Monseor Elas Liborio Madera, Revista del Ncleo de
Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:23 (ene. 1979), 148-156.
3503. Peralta, Jos. Eloy Alfaro y sus victimarios: apuntes para la historia ecuatoriana.
Buenos Aires: Edit. Olimpo, 1951. 346 p.
a list of the publications of the biographees. Useful but riddled with careless mistakes. The
bibliographic component, moreover, is almost wholly unreliable.
3516. Pesantes, Armando. Mexterior: saudades de la carrera diplomtica. Quito: Impr. del
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, 1993. 922 p.
A collection of anecdotes and vignettes regarding the author and his career as a diplomat.
3517. Piaguaje, Celestino. Ecorasa: autobiografa de un Secoya. Shushufindi-Ro Aguarico:
Vicariato Apostlico de Aguarico, 1990. 97 p.
The autobiography of a Secoya leader.
3518. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. El primer alcalde de la ciudad de Santiago, el capitn Antonio
de Rojas Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 12:29/30 (1960), 91-94.
3519. Pino Roca, J. Gabriel. Repatriacin de los restos del prcer Francisco Mara Claudio
Roca: triunviro del gobierno de Guayaqul de 1820 y quien dot a la ciudad de la primera
imprenta. Guayaquil: Impr. Mercantil, 1942. 26 p.
3520. Pino Ycaza, Gabriel. El muy magnfico seor don Gonzalo Pizarro. Guayaquil: Impr.
de la Universidad, 1951. 284 p.
3521. Ponce Leiva, Pilar. Gabriel Garca Moreno, 1 ed. Madrid: Historia 16, 1987. 156 p.
A popular biography.
3522. Ponce Ribadeneira, Alfredo. Salazar: estudio genealgico sobre una muy ilustre
familia quitea, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 61:131/132 (ene./dic. 1978), 209218.
3523. Primer ciudadano del Azuay. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1959. 110 p.
An appreciation of Agustn Cueva Tamariz.
3524. Proao, Luis Octavio. Biografa del reverendsimo padre fray Joel Lenidas Monroy
Pesantez. Cuenca: [s.n.], 1992. 416 p.
3525. Proao C., Luis A. Seor don Manuel J. Bastidas. Quito: Tall. Minerva, 1948. 205 p.
3526. El Prcer Juan de Dios Morales, ARNAHIS, 11:17 (10 ago. 1968), 111-125.
Publishes: Informacin del nacimiento, f de bautismo, ttulos de grado, garanta para la
recepcin de abogado del Licenciado Juan de Dios Morales.
3527. Puga, Miguel Angel. La gente ilustre de Quito. Quito: Edit. Delta; Sociedad de
Amigos de la Genealoga, 1994-1995. 2 v. (Coleccin: Ecuador mestizo; vol. 11-12)
Consists of biographical sketches of 190 illustrious quiteos--mostly from the national period,
mostly male--including some who were still living as of the mid 1990s. A useful reference work.
Exceptionally strong on artists and musicians in both of which groups Puga appears to have a
special interest.
3528. Quecedo, Francisco. El ilustrsimo fray Hiplito Snchez Rangel, primer obispo de
Maynas. Buenos Aires: Impr. CONI, 1942. 229, cxxxvi p.
3544. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Cedulario de la antigua Iglesia Matriz de Guayaquil (hoy
Catedral): matrimonios efectuados desde el ao 1.665 que constan en Libro No. 1, siendo cura
doctor don Bartolom de Cceres y Burgos, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas,
11:26/28 (1958), 155-160.
Abstracts marriage records, mostly of notable individuals, from the register for the years 16651703. As of 1967-1978, the corresponding register, apparently the earliest extant, was missing
from the archives of the Sagrario.
3545. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Cedulario de la Iglesia parroquial de Baba, Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 115-123.
Abstracts marriage records, mostly of notable individuals, from the years 1737 through 1850.
3546. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Cedulario de la Iglesia parroquial de Santa Clara de
Daule, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 372-381.
Abstracts marriage, baptism, and burial records, mostly of notable individuals, from the years
1751-1855.
3547. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Cedulario de la Santa Iglesia Catedral de Riobamba,
Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 10:23/24 (1955), 263-293.
Abstracts baptisms records, mostly of notable individuals, from the years 1714-1784.
3548. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Cedulario del Archivo de la Catedral de Guayaquil: libro
primero de bautismos, que principia el 16 de octubre de 1695 ..., Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 63-73.
Abstracts baptisms records, mostly of notable individuals, from the years 1695-1703, as found
in what used to be--and may still be if it resurfaces--the oldest surviving register of baptisms in
the port city.
3549. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Los Coello de Portugal, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 125-133.
3550. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. El conquistador Rodrigo de Vargas Guzmn, Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 5:7 (1937), 270-286.
3551. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Contribucin para el estudio de la sociedad colonial de
Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Impr. La Reforma, 1938. 657 p.
A set of genealogies of illustrious guayaquileos. Includes bibliographical data on members
of 86 prominent families. Sections of this work also appeared as: Contribucin para el estudio
de la sociedad colonial de la antigua Gobernacin de Guayaquil, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 4:4/6 (1934-1936), 131-157; 5:7 (1937), 53-80.
3552. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Documentos de la poca colonial de Guayaquil: cedulario
de la S.I. Catedral de Guayaquil: defunciones, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas,
4:4/6 (1934-1936), 90-111; 5:7 (1937), 287-299.
Abstracts burial records, mostly of notable individuals, from the years 1705-1855, as found in
the parish registers of the Sagrario. The register of burials for 1695-1703 has been missing for
many years as has that of baptisms for 1695-1703, and those of marriages for 1665-1700 and
1725-1760.
3553. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. El Dr. Jos Mascote y su fecha de defuncin, Cuadernos
de historia y arqueologa, 17:33 (1967), 237-239.
3554. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Don Juan de Urbina: gobernador de Guayaquil en el siglo
XVIII, Hidalgua, 14:78 (1966), 689-694.
A brief and apparently the only biography of the fifth governor of the port city and its district,
at least as of July 1997.
3555. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Escritos varios, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa,
31:44 (ene. 1982), 48-86.
Consists of additional genealogical notes on various illustrious guayaquileos.
3556. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Estudio histrico-genealgico de la familia Alvarez de
Avils, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 11:26/28 (1958), 161-193.
3557. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. La familia de Rocafuerte, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 4:4/6 (1934-1936), 64-79.
3558. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Familias coloniales: los Ramrez de Arellano, Boletn
del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 5:7 (1937), 244-262.
3559. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Los Garaicoa, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 4:4/6 (1934-1936), 192-199.
3560. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Guayaquileos notables: Dr. Francisco Marcos y Crespo,
Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 5:7 (1937), 312-313.
3561. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Hidalguas guayaquileas. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco
Ricke, 1958. 79 p.
Supplements item 3551.
3562. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Homenaje a la memoria del eminente prelado guayquileo
Excmo. Sr. Dr. Dn. Francisco Xavier de Garaycoa y Llaguno: primer obispo de Guayaquil en el
centenario de su fallecimiento, 1859-1959. Guayaquil: Edit. Vida, 1959. 12 p.
3563. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Isabelita Morls y sus linajes: (familias Morls, FebrsCordero, Tinoco, Agreda, Pagola, Besse Morian). Guayaquil: Instituto Genealgico de
Guayaquil, 1960. 62 p.
3564. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Los Lavayen, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 12:29/30 (1960), 15-31.
At head of title: Familias guayaquileas.
3565. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Un linaje vasco da origen al nombre del actual Cantn de
Vinces, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 10:23/24 (1955), 30-54.
Genealogy of the Veinza Family.
3566. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Los Morn de Butrn, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 2:2 (1932), 28-44.
3567. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Notas genealgicas para el estudio de la sociedad colonial
de la Provincia de Manab, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941),
107-114.
3568. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Noticias genealgicas de la sociedad colonial de
Manab, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 107-114.
3569. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Orgenes del prcer de octubre Rafael Mara de la Cruz
Ximena, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 53:115 (ene./jun. 1970), 17-20.
3570. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Pginas para la historia de San Lorenzo de Vinces:
testamento del licenciado Isidro de Veinza. Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de
Investigacin y Cultura, 1980. 7 p.
3571. Rocafuerte: estudios sobre su compleja personalidad. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales,
1947. 159 p.
Homenaje del Gobierno del Ecuador.
3572. Rodas, Raquel. Nosotras que del amor hicimos ... Quito: Edit. Fragua, 1992. 111 p.
A tribute to Luisa Gmez de la Torre and Laura Almedia, teachers and political activists, who
worked with the indigenous movement in the 1940s. Includes a photographic essay by Rolf
Blomberg.
3573. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. Benjamn Carrin, el hombre y el escritor. Quito:
Publitcnica, 1979. 91 p.
3574. Rodrguez de Gmez, Ana. Breve biografa del General Jos Mara Urvina y
Villamil, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 14/16:30/32 (1964/1966), 143-257.
3575. Rodrguez E., Celso A. Semblanza biogrfica del Cap. Csar Edmundo Chiriboga
Gonzlez, Revista, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Chimborazo, 8:7 (ago. 1960), 936.
Chiriboga Gonzlez was one of the heroes of 1941 conflict with Peru.
3576. Rodrguez O., Jaime E. Estudios sobre Vicente Rocafuerte, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 1975. xv, 390 p.
Contents: Vicente Rocafuerte y el emprstito a Colombia; Rocafuerte y la poltica de
Mxico, 1830-32; Correspondencia de Vicente Rocafuerte, 1810-1843.
3577. Roig, Arturo Andrs. Aurelio Espinosa Plit: humanista y filsofo. Quito:
Universidad Catlica, 1980. 78 p.
3578. Rolando, Carlos A. Los centenarios de 1933: doctor Luis Cordero, don Julio
Zaldumbide, doctor Antonio Flores Jijn, doctor Jos Modesto Espinoza. Guayaquil: Impr. i
Tall. Municipales, 1933. 79 p.
3579. Rolando, Carlos A. Los centenarios de 1950, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 167-188.
Consists of biobibliographies of Pedro Jos Boloa (1850-1898), Francisco J. Martnez
Aguirre (1850-1917), Juan Flix Proao (1850-1938), Andrs Machado (1850-1926), and Daniel
Enrique Proao (1850-1943).
3580. Rolando, Carlos A. Conozca usted lo que fue el General Sr. don Eloy Alfaro.
Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, Departamento de Publicaciones, 1958. 147 p.
Also published as: General Sr. Dn. Eloy Alfaro, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 11:26/28 (1958), 3-94.
3581. Rolando, Carlos A. Datos biogrficos del Dr. Isdiro Ayora, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 13:31/32 (1962), 24-43.
3582. Rolando, Carlos A. Don Juan Len Mera, 1832-1932. Guayaquil: Impr. y Talleres
Municipales, 1932. 28 p.
3583. Romero Len, Remigio. Excerta biogrfica del Rvdmo. padre doctor Julio Matovelle.
Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1938. 128 p.
3584. Romero y Cordero, Remigio. Vida, pasin y muerte de la beata Mariana de Jess
Paredes y Flores, azucena de Quito. Quito: Edit. Espejo, 1945. viii, 256 p.
A scholarly study.
3585. Rosero Jcome, Roco. Jos Joaqun Olmedo, poltico patriota o desertor ...? Quito:
Edit. Eskeleta, 1994. xx, 379 p.
3586. Rossello, Vctor. El mrtir del Ecuador: consideraciones sobre la vida y muerte del
seor D. Gabriel Garca Moreno, presidente del Ecuador, asesinado en Quito el 6 de agosto del
presente ao. Barcelona: Impr. y Librera Religiosa y Cientfica, 1875. 64 p.
3587. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales,
1950. 296 p.
3588. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. Luis Felipe Borja. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1947. 380 p.
Based on the Borja family papers.
3589. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. Rumiahui, Ati II. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin Pblica,
1944. 223 p.
3590. Rubira Orellana, Guillermo de. Los Santos de Charapot, 1770-1985, Sociedad
Amgios de la Genealoga del Guayas, 1 (ago. 1985), 143-260.
3591. Rueda, Marco Vinicio. Julio Tobar Donoso, maestro universitario. Quito:
Universidad Catlica, 1982. 68 p.
3592. Ruz de Castilla. Biografa del Doctor Juan de Dios Morales, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 50:109 (ene./jun. 1967), 27-38.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1910. 67 p. The real name of the author
is unknown.
3593. Ruiz Rivera, Julin Bautista. Gabriel Garca Moreno: dictador ilustrado del Ecuador.
Madrid: Anaya, 1988. 127 p.
3594. Rumazo Gonzlez, Alfonso. Manuela Senz: la libertadora del libertador, 7 ed.
Guayaquil: Publicaciones Educativas Ariel, [1970?]. 201 p.
A popular biography of Bolvars quitea mistress. More conjectural than factual.
Unfortunately this work and Von Hagens semifictional The Four Seasons of Manuela are the
standard references on the misunderstood and misportrayed Manuela Senz Aizparu de Thorne
(1797-1856). Available in multiple editions or printings. Originally published: Cali: Edit. Eza,
1944. 293 p.
3595. Rumazo Gonzlez, Alfonso. Sucre, gran mariscal de Ayacucho: biografa. Madrid:
Aguilar, 1963. 427 p.
Somewhat more reliable than the authors Manuela Senz.
3596. Sacoto, Antonio. Juan Montalvo: el escritor y el estilista. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1973. 424 p.
Reprinted: Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, Ncleo del Azuay,
1987. 2 v.
3597. Sacoto, Antonio. Montalvo: el hombre, Cultura, 5:12 (ene./mar. 1982), 125-137.
3598. Senz, Manuela. Manuela Senz: epistolario, estudio y seleccin del Dr. Jorge
Villalba F. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1986. 232 p.
Publishes sixty letters written by Senz between 1830 and 1853, mostly to Juan Jos Flores.
See also Senzs Patriota y amante de usted: Manuela Senz y el Libertador, diarios inditos,
textos de Elena Poniatowska [et al.]. Mxico: Edit. Diana, 1993. 297 p.
3599. Salazar Alvarado, Francisco. La vida y el pensamiento de Eduardo Salazar Gmez.
Quito: Edit. Voluntad, 1972. 275 p.
3600. Salazar Tamariz, Lucio. Una comarca y sus destellos: semblanzas instantaneas.
Cuenca: Edit. Amazonas, 1965. 232 p.
Consists of biographies of cuencanos.
3601. Snchez Astudillo, Miguel. Isaac J. Barrera: espcimen de letrado y de hombre.
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1964. 89 p.
3602. Santinelli, Ciriaco. Garca Moreno: rasgos biogrficos. Cuenca: Tall. de El
Progreso, 1921. 182 p.
Reprint; originally published: Barcelona, 1908. 222 p.
3603. Santos Rodrguez, Jos. Eloy Alfaro: su personalidad multifacetica y la revolucin
liberal. Guayaquil: Litogr. e Impr. de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1983. 99 p.
3604. Santovenia, Emeterio S. Eloy Alfaro y Cuba. Habana: Impr. El Siglo XX, 1929. 208
p.
3605. Santovenia, Emeterio S. Vida de Alfaro. Habana: Edit. Trpico, 1942. 373 p.
The author, a Cuban liberal, compares Alfaro to Christ.
3606. Scarpetta, M. Lenidas; and Saturnino Vergara. Diccionario biogrfico de los
campeones de la libertad de Nueva Granada, Venezuela, Ecuador i Per. Bogot: Impr. de
Zalamea, 1879. 728 p.
3607. Sevilla, Carlos Bolvar. Montalvo y sus obras. Ambato: Impr. La Exactitud, 1940. 2
v.
3608. Sevilla Carrasco, Horacio. El prcer Toms Sevilla; El Ambato de antao: apuntes
genealgicos. Quito: Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga, 1987. 551 p. (Coleccin Amigos de
la Genealoga; vol. 28)
3609. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Microradiografa de don Roberto Andrade, Anales del
Archvio Nacional de Historia y Museo Unico, 2 ser., 1 (1939), 50-58.
3610. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Un notable americanista, crtico de historia: el P. Juan
Caledonio de Arteta y Larrabeytia, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 2:4/5 (ago. 1952), 226.
Arteta y Larrabeytia (b. 1741) was a guayaquileo and a Jesuit.
3611. Smith, Ronna. Vida de Adalberto Ortz, Cultura, 6:16 (mayo/ago. 1983), 99-118.
3612. Stagg y Caamao, Federico L. El general Juan Jos Flores, Boletn histrico
(Caracas), 1 (1962), 9-34.
Pro-Flores. Not surprising, given the biographers collateral relationship to Flores.
3613. Steven, Hugh. Never Touch a Tiger. Nashville: T. Nelson, 1980. 156 p.
A biography of Mary Johnson (1927-), an Evangelical missionary among the Secoyas.
3614. Surez Baquerizo, Ral. Real Audiencia de Quito. T. 1. Colonizadores. Quito: Edit.
Mercedaria, 1951. ix, 135 p.
Only vol. 1 was published. A genealogical study, with some biographical coverage, of notable
quiteos of the colonial period, especially of titled members of the local elite and of the Surez
family.
3615. El Suicidio del Coronel Antonio Vega Muoz: artculos y documentados publicados en
las ediciones de El Tiempo de Guayaquil y Quito. Guayaquil: El Tiempo, 1907. 54 p.
3616. Tama Paz, Cyrano. Diario de un estudiante guayaquileo. Cuenca: Libros
Ecuatorianos, 1980. 298 p.
An autobiography.
3617. Tern, Francisco. El desafortunado conquistador del Reino de Quito, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 48:106 (jul./dic. 1965), 202-223.
3631. Tobar Donoso, Julio. El R.P. fray Jos Primo Betancourt, primer maestro de Garca
Moreno, Revista de la Asociacin Catlica de la Juventud Ecuatoriana, 1:4/5 (jun./jul. 1918),
187-195.
3632. Tobar Donoso, Julio. El R.P. Jos Mara Le Gouhir y Raud, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 20:56 (jul./dic. 1940), 285-288.
3633. Tobar Freile, Luis Felipe. El Excmo. y Rvdmo. Monseor Dr. Dn. Pedro Rafael
Gonzlez y Calixto: dignsimo arzobispo de Quito. Quito: Tip. y Encuadernacin Tip. y Encuad.
Salesianas, 1923. xv, 321 p.
Reprinted: Tip. y Encuadernacin de la Prensa Catlica, 1929.
3634. Tobar Suba, Cristbal. La familia de la beata Mariana de Jess en Ibarra, Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de Historia, 25:65 (ene./jun. 1945), 115-119.
3635. Toral Malo, Daniel. Memorias de ..., edicin, presentacin y seleccin de textos Julio
E. Toral Vega; seleccin de fotografas, diagramacin y coordinacin Ernesto Toral Amador.
Cuenca: Impr. Monsalve Moreno Ca Ltda., 1987. 267 p.
Publishes the 1951 memoirs of a cuencano whose life spanned most of the second half of the
nineteenth century and all of the first half of the twentieth (1860-1953). Recounts episodes in the
history of the city as well as in that of the Toral family.
3636. Torres Chaves, Efran. Mi entrevista con el Dr. Wentland. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, 1967. 63 p.
A biography of and interview with the entrepreneur Joseph Wentland.
3637. Tres maestros: Angel F. Rojas, Adalberto Ortiz y Leopoldo Benites Vinueza se cuentan
a s mismos, Carlos Caldern Chico, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana
Benjamn Carrin, Ncleo del Guayas, 1991. 263 p.
A set of interviews with Rojas, Ortiz, and Benites Vinueza.
3638. Troncoso, Julio C. Vida anecdtica del general Eloy Alfaro: nacimiento, juventud,
campaas y cronologa de los combates, administracin, obras realizadas y muerte sacrificada
del noble estadista. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1966. 346 p.
3639. Ubidia Rubio, Luis Enrique. Un ilustre otavaleo: don Carlos Ubidia Albuja,
Revista del Ncleo de Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:24 (jul. 1979),
230-265.
3640. Uzctegui, Emilio. Historiadores de Bolivia, Ecuador y Paraguay, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 50:110 (jul./dic. 1967), 205-213.
Consists of biobibliogaphical sketches of leading historians of the nineteenth and of first two
thirds of the twentieth century of the three nations in question.
3641. Uzctegui, Emilio. Manuel Mara Snchez, eminente ecuatoriano, Cultura, 5:14
(set./dic. 1982), 221-236.
3642. Uzctegui Andrade, Byron. Carlos Atahualpa Inga a travs de tres documentos
inditos, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 57:124 (jul./dic 1974), 412-427.
Carlos Atahualpa was a great grandson of Atahualpa. The documents in question date from
the late 1500s and the early 1600s.
3643. Uzctegui Andrade, Byron. Segundo testamento de doa Beatriz Coquilago Ango,
nuera del Inca Atahualpa, Miscelnea histrica ecuatoriana, 2:2 (1989), 138-148.
Publishes in photofacsimile and literal transcription the 1602 or second last will and testament
of a daughter-in-law of Atahualpa and heir to the cacicazgo of Ango (Otavalo). Includes a brief
analysis of the document by Uzctegui Andrade. Interestingly enough this document was
removed at from the libros de protocolos (No. 16) of the Primera Notara del Cantn de Quito
(part of the Archivo Nacional de Historia since 1956) and acquired by the Uzctegui family from
a local antiquarian in 1975.
3644. Uzctegui Andrade, Byron. Semblanza documental de la nuera de Atahualpa, Museo
Histrico, 55 (1976), 177-184.
A preliminary analysis of 1602 last well and testament of Beatriz Coquilago Ango and other
coeval sources relating to the ethnic lady.
3645. Vacas Galindo, Enrique. El R. P. Alonso de Gazco, Oriente dominicano, 9:43/44
(jul./oct. 1936), 304-305; 9:45 (nov./dic. 1936), 327-329, 335-337.
Gazco was a prior of the Dominican Monastery in Quito during the early colonial period.
3646. Vallejo Larrea, Gustavo. El doctor Juan Flix Proao, dean de Riobamba, 18501938, Anales del Archivo Nacional de Historia y Museo Unico, 2 ser., 1 (1939), 77-85.
3647. Vallette, M.F. Moreno, the Martyred President of Ecuador, American Catholic
Quarterly, 47:3 (July 1922), 287-300; 47:4 (Oct. 1922), 411-425.
A good example of how poorly informed the majority of North Americans intellectuals,
regardless of their ideological beliefs, were/are about Ecuador and Ecuadorians.
3648. Valores humanos de la Gran Colombia: Venezuela, Ecuador, Colombia: con datos
recopilados hasta el 31 de agosto de 1964, 2 ed. Bogot: Oliverio Perry, 1965. xii, 1,131 p.
A major whos who in Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia as of the early 1960s.
3649. Valores humanos de la Gran Colombia: Venezuela, Panam, Ecuador, Colombia.
Bogot: Edit. Agra, 1952. 1074 p.
The first edition of the preceding item.
3650. Valverde, Miguel. Las ancdotas de mi vida. Grottatierrata: Tip. Italo-Orientale,
1919. 365 p.
3651. Vargas, Francisco Alejandro. General en Jefe Juan Jos Flores, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de la Historia (Caracas), 48:189 (ene./mar. 1965), 55-68.
3652. Vargas, Jos Mara. Biografa de Eugenio Espejo. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1968.
108
3653. Vargas, Jos Mara. Biografa de Fray Pedro Bedn, O.P. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, 1965. 116 p.
3654. Vargas, Jos Mara. Diego Lobato de Sosa: un sacerdote modelo de siglo XVI
Revista, Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 1 (1974), 31-40.
A sketch of the life and career of a sixteenth-century mestizo priest, the son of a conquistador
and of a colla. Sometimes depicted as the first Ecuadorian priest.
3655. Vargas, Jos Mara. Federico Gonzlez Surez: el hombre, el historiador, el prelado.
Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1969. xxxi, 316 p.
Reprinted in vol. 2 of Vargass Obras selectas (Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Fundacin
Jos Mara Vargas, 1991).
3656. Vargas, Jos Mara. Fray Toms de Berlanga, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 43:98 (jul./dic. 1961), 176-192.
3657. Vargas, Jos Mara. Gil Ramrez Dvalos, fundador de Cuenca. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1957. 93 p.
Reprinted in vol. 1 of Vargass Obras selectas (Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Fundacin
Jos Mara Vargas, 1991).
3658. Vargas, Jos Mara. Jacinto Jijn y Caamao: su vida y su museo de arqueologa y
arte ecuatoriano. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1971. 230 p.
Reprinted in vol. 1 of Vargass Obras selectas (Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Fundacin
Jos Mara Vargas, 1991).
3659. Vargas, Jos Mara. Miguel de Santiago: su vida, su obra. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, 1970. 136 p.
3660. Vargas, Jos Mara. Monseor Fray Juan Mara Riera: ensayo biogrfico. Quito:
Edit. Royal, 1984. 92 p.
3661. Vargas, Jos Mara. Padre Enrique Vacas Galindo, O.P.: (sntesis biogrfica). Quito:
Edit. Santo Domingo, 1961. 34 p.
3662. Vargas, Jos Mara. Remigio Crespo Toral: el hombre y la obra. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1962. 241 p.
3663. Vargas, Jos Mara. Sor Catalina de Jess Mara Herrera, religiosa dominica. Quito:
Editora Royal, 1979. 117 p.
3664. Vargas, Jos Mara. El venerable Padre Maestro Fray Pedro Bedn: su vida y sus
escritos. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1935. 71 p.
3665. Vargas Vila, Jos Mara. La muerte del condor: del poema, de la tragedia, y de la
historia. Barcelona: Maucci, 1914. 261 p.
An eulogy of Alfaro.
3666. Varon, Benno Weiser. Professions of a lucky Jew. New York: Cornwall Books, 1992.
431 p.
The autobiography of an Austrian Jew who took refuge in Ecuador during the heyday of
Nazism. Exceptionally successful, Varon became the well known and controversial columnist
Prospero of El Comercio in 1940. Understandably more concerned with the fate of Jews and
Israel than with what was going on in Ecuador, nonetheless, an important source of information
on the Jewish community in Quito in the late 1930s and the 1940s, and an interesting
commentary on Ecuadorian politics and personages of the time.
3667. Vsconez, Francisco. Olmedo y sus obras: estudio histrico-crtico. Guayaquil: Impr.
Gutenberg, 1920. 275 p.
3668. Vsconez Hurtado, Gustavo. El general Juan Jos Flores, la repblica: 1830-1845, la
ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1984. vii, 405 p.
The second vol. in a projected three vol. biography of Flores.
3669. Vsconez Hurtado, Gustavo. El general Juan Jos Flores, primer presidente del
Ecuador: 1800-1830. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1981. 214 p.
The first vol. in a projected three vol. biography of Flores. See also the preceding item.
Detailed, well documented, relatively objective studies.
3670. Vsconez Hurtado, Gustavo. Pluma de acero, o, La vida novelesca de Juan Montalvo.
Mxico, D.F.: Biblioteca Continental, 1944. 223 p.
3671. Vzquez Almazn, Hugo. Mercedes de Jess Molina: la peregrina de Dios.
Guayaquil: Edit. Arquidiocesana, [1986?] 319 p.
A well documented and researched biography of the founder of the Marianas de Jess
Congregation and an important figure in the religious life of the nineteenth century, having
served in the Oriente and the highlands as well as in the port city.
3672. Vzquez Almazn, Hugo. Narcisa de Jess, el lirio de los montubios: ensayo
biogrfico, histrico, crtico, espiritual. Guayaquil: Edit. Arquidiocesana, 1976. 226 p.
Also a well documented and researched biography, this time of the port citys other celebrated
beata of the nineteenth century, Narcisa de Jess (1832?-1869), a candidate for sainthood. Not
surprisingly the contemporaries Mercedes de Jess and Narcisa de Jess not only knew one
another but reinforced one anothers spirituality.
3673. Vega Toral, Enrique. Datos biogrficos del seor general don Antonio Vega Muoz:
la verdad sobre su trgica muerte y la opinin entonces, del Ecuador, sobre ella (1856-1906).
Cuenca: Edit. Don Bosco, 1956. 380 p.
The author was a son of the assassinated caudillo.
3674. Vega Toral, Toms. Homenaje a la memoria del reverendsimo seor doctor don Jos
Julio Mara Matovelle en el primer centenario de su nacimiento 1852-1952. Cuenca: [s.n.],
1952. 166 p.
3675. Velasco Ibarra, Jos Mara. He venido a meditar y morir: recopilacin de documentos
publicados a raz del fallecimiento del seor Dr. Don Jos Mara Velasco Ibarra. Quito: Edit.
Letra Nueva, 1979. 101 p.
3676. Velsquez, Csar Vicente. Olmedo: el hombre, la leyenda, la verdad. Quito: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1984. 136 p.
3677. Vera, Pedro Jorge. Gracias a la vida: memorias, 1a. ed. Quito: Edit. Voluntad, 1993.
279 p.
The autobiography of a twentieth-century journalist.
3678. El Verdadero testamento del Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho y una de las ltimas cartas
que dirigi a su esposa: publicados con otros documentos [por] Alfredo Flores y Caamao,
1926. 96 p.
3679. Verdesoto de Romo Dvila, Raquel. Manuela Senz. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1963. 2 v.
3680. Una Vida al servicio del pueblo, [seleccin de textos y direccin de edicin, Alba
Chvez de Alvarado]. Guayaquil: Editorial de la Universidad de Guayaquil: Facultad de
Comunicacin Social, 1988. 144 p.
A compendium of materials on the life and career of Air Force General Frank Vargas Pazzos
(1934-).
3681. Villacs G., Jorge Eduardo. Episodios de un ayer. Ibarra: Edit. Epoca, 1982. 197 p.
3682. Villacs Molina, Rodrigo. Palabras cruzadas. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador,
1988. 414 p.
Consists of interviews with intellectuals.
3683. Villacres Moscoso, Jorge W. Ilustres venezolanos al servicio del Ecuador, Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de la Historia (Caracas), 47:188 (oct./dic. 1964), 559-568.
Biographic sketches of Ignacio Hernndez and Joaqun Villamil, who headed the expedition
that annexed the Galpagos to Ecuador in 1832, and of Dr. Joaqun Febres Cordero, the founder
and first dean of the School of Law of the University of Guayaquil.
3684. Villalba F., Jorge. Familiares del Mariscal Antonio Jos de Sucre en el Ecuador,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 63:135/135 (ene./dic. 1980), 149-161.
3685. Villalba F., Jorge. Federico Gonzlez Surez: su juventud, los diez aos en la
Compaa de Jess, 1862-1872, sus primeros escritos, Revista, Instituto de Historia Eclesistica
Ecuatoriana, 1 (1974), 47-96.
A well documented study of the archbishop historians years as a member of the Society of
Jesus.
3686. Villalba F., Jorge. El general Juan Jos Flores: fundador de la Repblica del
Ecuador. Quito: Centro de Estudios Histricos del Ejrcito, 1994. 473 p.
A solid, exceptionally well documented, relatively impartial biography of Flores.
3687. Villass Endara, Carlos. Navarro, el arte de la investigacin: semblanza biogrficocrtica. Quito: Editora La Econmica, 1988. 214 p.
A modest but significant study of the life and work of Jos Gabriel Navarro, a pioneer in the
art history of Ecuador and one of the most important art historians of the country. Includes a list
of Navarros publications.
3688. Villegas Domnguez, Rodrigo. Abogados de Imbabura, Revista del Ncleo de
Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:24 (jul. 1979), 22-42.
3689. Villegas Domnguez, Rodrigo. Vida de Abelardo Moncayo. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1961. 370 p.
A superficial and partisan biography of the Liberal ideologue and politician (1848-1917).
3690. Vinueza Carlozama, Mara Elena. Breve biografa de fray Enrique Vacas Galindo,
Revista del Ncleo de Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:23 (ene. 1979),
166-180.
3691. Viteri Lafronte, Homero. Gonzalo Daz de Pineda: fundador, escribano, alcalde y
gobernador de Quito: precursor y gua de la expedicin descubridora del Amazonas , Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de Historia, 44:100 (jul./dic. 1962), 194-243.
3692. Viteri Lafronte, Homero. El impreso de Espejo en Bogot, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 1:1 (jul./oct. 1920), 96-104.
3693. Viteri Lafronte, Homero. Un libro autgrafo de Espejo, Boletn de la Sociedad
Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos Americanos, 4:12 (mayo/jun. 1920), 335-448.
A well documented biography of the precursor by one of the editors of his Escritos (item
4341). Considerably advanced what had been known and supposed about Espejo. Reprinted in
authors El precursor Espejo (item 656), p. 169-355.
3694. Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang. The Four Seasons of Manuela, a Biography: the Love
Story of Manuela Saenz and Simon Bolivar. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1952. x, 320
p.
A semifictional biography of Bolvars quitea lover. Also published in Spanish as: Las
cuatro estaciones de Manuela: los amores de Manuela Senz y Simn Bolvar (Mxico: Edit.
Hermes, 1953); and as: Los amores de Simn Bolvar y Manuela Senz (Madrid: Apstrafe,
1991).
3695. Wright, Eduardo. El general de divisin Toms Carlos Wright, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 5:7 (1937), 412-414.
3696. Yerovi, Agustn Lenidas. Juan Montalvo, ensayo biogrfico, La Casa de Montalvo,
1:8/10 (mar./mayo 1932), 8-51.
Reprint; originally published: Paris: Impr. Sudamericana, 1901. 85 p.
3697. Zaldumbide, Gonzalo. El prcer quiteo don Carlos Montfar, Revista de Indias,
poca 2, 18 (junio 1940), 184-218.
Also published as: Un prcer quiteo fusilado en Buga, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 20:56 (jul./dic. 1943), 179-202; and in: Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 102-132.
3698. Zuiga, Neptal. Atahualpa, o, La trageda de Amrindia. Buenos Aires: Edit.
Amricalee, 1945. 415 p.
One of those works that undoubtedly helped form Ecuadorian nationalism during the second
half of the twentieth century. As such it is important. As history it is mythology and unbridled
emotionalism. For example: Atahualpa no es el creador de la nacionalidad ecuatoriana ... sino
el reafirmador de aqulla, el revindicador, la esencia y el sentido viriles de su fuerza interior. Es
algo ms: el soldado enamorado de la formacin de una clara conciencia nacional, para llevar a
todos los compatriotas el convencimiento de un ideario superior en la vida: la patria (p. 135).
3699. Zuiga, Neptal. Jos Meja: Mirabeau del Nuevo Mundo. Quito: Instituto Geogrfico
Militar, 1947. ix, 409 p.
A detailed, well documented, and generally accurate albeit unabashedly favorable account.
3700. Zuiga, Neptal. Juan Po Montfar y Larrea. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 19451963. 2 v.
A favorable but nonetheless exceptionally well researched and solidly documented life of the
II Marqus de Selva Alegre. Vol. 2 (324 p.) consists almost entirely of primary sources. The
second volume was apparently printed in 1945 but does not seem to have circulated until
eighteen years. My copy is dated 1945 on the title page, but 1963 on the cover, and include front
matter dated julio de 1963. And on p. [iii] Zuiga states Pocos ejemplares del presente
volumen circularon hace aos, embodegndose el resto por mi ausencia a Europa ...
3701. Zuiga, Neptal. Pedro Vicente Maldonado: un cientfico de Amrica. Madrid:
Publicaciones Espaolas, 1951. 419 p.
A detailed, solidly researched work, based on extensive research in Spain, especially in the
Archivo General de Indias.
3702. Zuiga, Neptal. Vicente Len. Quito: Tall. Grf de Educacin, 1943. 340 p.
Len (1773-1839) was the founder of the Colegio de Latacunga.
3703. Zuiga, Neptal. Vicente Rocafuerte: sntesis biogrfica, seleccin de textos. Quito:
Ministerio de Educacin y Cultura, 1984. 159 p.
A summary of Zuigas findings on Rocafuerte as presented in item 2172 and a selection of
Rocafuertes writings.
HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF ECUADOR
Vol. II
by
Michael T. Hamerly
CULTURE
[Benjamn] Carrin, que ha pasado por ser [comunista], no invit a sus compatriotas a luchar
contra la miseria, sino a leer a Balzac y a imitar a Blgica en la exportacin de artesanas, sin
detenerse a pensar en la diferencias de las condiciones de produccin de un pas de rancio
capitalismo ennoblecido y un pas subdesarrollado y dependiente. Hay que pensar, por tanto, que
la patria en que l sonaba era doblemente pequea, porque solo inclua a los que pueden leer y a
los que pueden exportar. Fernando Tinajero.
3704. Adoum, Jorge Enrique. Sin ambages: textos y contextos. Quito: Planeta, 1989. 185 p.
An anthology of the authors essays on cultural developments and events of the late-twentieth
century throughout Latin America at large as well as in Ecuador.
3705. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Movimiento cultural de Cuenca durante la poca de la
colonia. Cuenca: [s.n.], 1940. 257 p.
A survey of intellectual and artistic developments in Cuenca during the colonial period.
3706. Andrade Coello, Alejandro. Cultura femenina: floracin intelectual de la mujer
ecuatoriana en el siglo XX. Quito: Tall. Grf. del Ministerio de Educacin, 1942. 74 p.
3707. Antologa de artistas, compositores y profesionales ecuatorianos, Adolfo Parra
Espinoza [compilador]. Cuenca: Tabacalera Andina, 1983. 296 p.
Supposed to have been the first of several vols., but no more were forthcoming.
3708. Archivos de arte y literatura: fichero de autores y de agrupaciones, coordinacin e
investigacin, Pablo Guerrero Gutirrez; investigadores, Ral Levoyer, Paulina de Ponce, Milton
Castaeda. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, 1992. 2 v.
Vol. 2 subtitled: La Msica, coordinacin y investigacin, Pablo Guerrero Gutierrez ;
investigadores Ral Levoyer, Paulina de Ponce, Milton Castaeda. As in the case of item 3707,
supposed to have been ongoing, but no more vols. were published. A useful reference work.
3709. Barriga Lpez, Franklin. Ecuador, la patria y la cultura. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano
de Crdito Educativo y Becas; Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1984. 289 p.
A knowledgeable but somewhat spotty survey.
3710. Bravo, Julin G. El patrimonio cultural y la Iglesia Catlica en el Ecuador. Quito:
Artes Grf. Senal, 1988. 52 p.
Emphasizes the role of the Catholic Church in the development of the arts, especially during
the colonial period.
3711. Carrera Andrade, Jorge. Galera de msticos y de insurgentes: la vida intelectual del
Ecuador durante cuatro siglos, 1535-1955. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1959. 190 p.
A beautifully written but not altogether reliable account of the literati--in the broad sense--of
the colonial and national periods.
3712. Carrera Andrade, Jorge. Retrato cultural del Ecuador. Paris: Centre de recherches de
lInstitut dtudes hispaniques, 1965. 38 p.
A broad strokes account.
3713. Carrin, Benjamn. Cartas al Ecuador, estudio introductorio, Michael Handelsman.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1988. 284 p. (Biblioteca
bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 37)
Originally published: Quito, 1943. Includes Nuevas cartas al Ecuador (item 3715). Carrins
letters are multifaceted in content and coverage and therefore constitute a running commentary
on political as well as on cultural events and developments. The first set was written during the
1941 boundary conflict with Peru and the second during the presidency of Camilo Ponce
Enrquez. Both sets originally appeared in the quiteo dailies El Da and La Calle.
3714. Carrin, Benjamn. Informe sobre la obra realizada en la Matriz y los ncleos durante
el bienio 1950-1952. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1952. 178 p.
A report on the activities of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana in the early 1950s by its
founder and first president.
3715. Carrin, Benjamn. Nuevas cartas al Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Atahualpa, [1959]. 202
p.
See the commentary under item 3713.
3716. Carrin, Benjamn. Plan del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
Ncleo del Guayas, 1977. 186 p.
3717. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Trece aos de cultura nacional: ensayos, agosto
1944-1957. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1957. 2 v.
3718. Cordero Iiquez, Juan. Desarrollo cultural de la Provincia del Azuay, Revista del
Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 46 (1981), 75-91.
3719. Crespo Toral, Hernn. El pas y su identidad cultural, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr.
1984), 489-500.
3720. Cueva, Agustn. Entre la ira y la esperanza. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1967. 261 p.
3721. Cueva, Agustn. Sobre nuestra ambigedad cultural. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1974.
91 p.
An insightful albeit somewhat dogmatic analysis of cultural developments in Ecuador and its
ideological climate in the 1960s and early 1970s. Cueva was a leading sociologist and one of the
primary exponents of historical materialism in the country.
3222. La Cultura popular en el Ecuador. Cuenca: Centro Interamericano de Artesanas y
Artes Populares, 1984-<1992> <7> v.
A catalog of the popular culture of indigenous peoples, mestizos (i.e., chagras and cholos),
and Afro-Ecuadorians, province by province. Includes ethnographic and historical data. Uneven
in coverage and quality of presentation. Another important project appears to have been
abandoned.
Partial contents: t. 1, Azuay, coordinador de la investigacin, Juan Martnez B; t. 2, Cotopaxi,
coordinador de la investigacin, Marcelo Naranjo V.; t. 3, Bolvar, coordinador de la
investigacin, Segundo Moreno Y.; t. 4, Esmeraldas, coordinador de la investigacin, Marcelo
Naranjo V.; t. 5, Imbabura, coordinador de la investigacin, Marcelo Naranjo V.; t. 6, Caar,
coordinadores de la investigacin, Harold Einzmann y Napolen Almedia; t. 7, Tungurahua,
coordinador de la investigacin, Marcelo Naranjo V.
3723. Chaves, Fernando. El hombre ecuatoriano y su cultura. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1990. 228 p. (Biblioteca de la revista Cultura; 1)
Posthumously published. This work would have been the first systematic attempt to examine
Ecuadorian culture had it been published when written in the early 1940s.
3724. Dvila Vzquez, Jorge. Ecuador, hombre y cultura. Cuenca: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1990. 454 p.
A series of interviews with twenty personas que hubieran estado ligadas a la cultura nacional-en el presente caso a la de Cuenca--en los ltimos cincuenta aos.
3725. Ecuador: cultura, estado y sociedad, Jos Snchez-Parga [et al.]. Quito: Fundacin
Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales FESO; Departamento de Sociologa PUCE, 1991. 78 p.
Consists of four essays, only the third of which on the cultural activities of the Banco Central
is of any interest or importance.
Contents: Jos Snchez-Parga, La cultura entre Estado y sociedad (p. 13-23); Javier Ponce
Cevallos, Cultura y Estado (p. 27-39); Simn Espinosa, Un modelo de la gestin pblica de la
cultura: el caso del Banco Central del Ecuador (p. 43-57); Gaitn Villavicencio, Polticas
culturales y diferencias socio-regionales: el caso de la costa ecuatoriana (p. 61-73.
3726. Encuentro para la Defensa del Patrimonio Nacional (2: 1987: Guayaquil, Ecuador).
Ponencias, II Encuentro para la Defensa del Patrimonio Nacional, septiembre 21-26, 1987,
Museo Antropolgico del Banco Central del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil,
1987-1988. 2 v. (in various paginations)
A potpourri of papers, some of which have nothing to do with the topic of the encuentro.
Contents of vol. 1: Horacio Hidrovo Peaherrera, Hacia una toma de conciencia de nuestra
identidad cultural; Horacio Hidrovo Peaherrera, Fundamentos para una poltica cultural en el
Ecuador; El documento de Guayaquil; Jos Hidrovo Peaherrera, La Universidad de
Guayaquil y el programa ambiental no formal; Juana Gonzlez de Merino, Milagro 1; Jorge
W. Villacres Moscoso, Universidad y soberana nacional; Elias Muoz Vicua, No mas
dispersin; ICOMOS, Presentacin ICOMOS; Vctor A. Gonzlez S. 1842 - epidemia fiebre
amarilla; Misael Acosta Sols, El paisaje y la cubierta vegetal del Reino de Quito al arribo de
los conquistadores; Enrique Huerta, Patrimonio arquitectnico rural: su conservacin y
desarrollo; Parsival Castro, Patrimonio arquitectnico rural: su conservacin y desarrollo;
Alfredo Ochoa, Patrimonio arquitectnico rural: su conservacin y desarrollo; Jorge A. Moran
Ubida, Patrimonio arquitectnico rural: su conservacin y desarrollo.
The proceedings of the first Encuentro Nacional para la Defensa del Patrimonio Cultural were
also published, but they are important only as a statement of acuerdos y resoluciones: Primer
Encuentro Nacional para la Defensa del Patrimonio Cultural: (Memorias) febrero 16-20 1981
(Guayaquil: Impr. de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1981; 33, [18] leaves).
3727. Freire Rubio, Edgar. Esas viejas libreras de Quito!, 1 ed. Quito: Cmara
Ecuatoriana del Libro, Ncleo de Pichincha, 1993. 100 p.
A history of bookstores in the capital from the earliest known, in the 1840s, through the
1960s. The author is himself a well known bookseller and one of the leading bibliographers of
the country.
3728. Garca, Aurelio H. El problema de la cultura ecuatoriana. Quito: Tip. y
Encuadernacin Salesianas, 1927. 76 p.
3729. Guerra Bravo, Samuel. La cultura en la poca colonial, Nueva historia del Ecuador
(item 615), vol. 5, p. 137-161.
A solid survey of colegios and universities and of intellectual currents during the colonial
period.
3730. Handelsman, Michael H. Entre el colonialismo y el discurso nacional popular,
Crnica del ro, 4/5 (sept. 1993), 3-7.
3731. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. La Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana: cuatro aos de trabajo.
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1948. 138 p.
A report on the first four years of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana.
3732. Laso Rivadeneira, Jos. Los medios de comunicacin en nuestra cultura, Cultura,
6:18b (ene./abr. 1984), 401-410.
3733. Linke, Lilo. Literary Life in the Tropics, Antioch Review, 3:4 (Dec. 1943), 574-586.
3734. Mantilla, Gilberto. Bases para una poltica de desarrollo cultural en el Ecuador,
Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984), 421-430.
3735. Nez Snchez, Jorge. La cultura popular: problemas y perspectivas, Cultura, 6:18
(ene./abr. 1984), 169-180.
3736. Nez Snchez, Jorge. Pas de medioda. Guaranda: Universidad Estatal de Bolvar,
1993. 109 p.
A set of essays on various aspects of popular culture according to the subject headings in
library catalogs. In reality a miscellany of essays written in a popular vein mostly on women,
cooking, music and musicians, and a little bit of this and that with some history, not necessarily
reliable, thrown in for good measure.
3737. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. Las formas de la cultura en el Ecuador, Mercurio
peruano, 39:379 (1958), 586-608.
Maintains that the national culture in the literary as well as in the anthropological sense has
become predominantly mestizo in character. What the author means by mestizo is, of course,
not defined.
3738. Prez, Galo Ren. Pensamiento y literatura del Ecuador: crtica y antologa. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1972. 519 p.
A knowledgeable review of materials for analysis of intellectual developments in general as
well as of literary currents in particular. Unfortunately, however, a work that is poorly organized.
3739. Poltica cultural, Plutarco Cisneros A. [et al.]. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de
Antropologa, 1977. 147 p. (Sarance: revista del Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa; 5)
A special issue of Sarance. Devoted to the discussion of what political culture is in
Ecuador and what it should be according to the various contributors.
3740. Proao, Luis E. Medios de comunicacin y cultura, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984),
431-435.
3741. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. 1969-1979: diez aos de cultura en el Ecuador. Quito:
Politcnica, 1980. 125 p.
A useful chronicle of developments and events in the fields of literature (poetry, novels, and
ensays), history, art, music, and the theater during the ten years under review.
3742. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. El libro y la poltica cultural, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr.
1984), 501-513.
An essay on the editorial labors and policies of the Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, the Banco
Central del Ecuador, and the Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa on the one hand, and on the
lack of knowledge regarding what is being published and who reads what, on the other.
3743. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. Revolucin cultural: la historia de la toma de la Casa de
la Cultura. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1968. 95 p.
A report on a cultural or ideological war, replete with hostile takeover, between the Old and
the New Guard, between the Right and the Left, between the young--or at least, the middle aged-and the old.
1854, 1884, 1914, and 1944. He defines generations in thirty year periods, not only in terms of
when their component members were born but also in their of their periods of influence. He
subdivides each generation in two groups (vertientes). The generation of 1944, therefore,
consists of those born between 1914 and 1929, influential between 1944 and 1974, and those
born between 1929 and 1944, influential between 1959 and 1989. An interesting approach that is
not without considerable merit. Unfortunately Valdano Morejn is not altogether reliable as to
years of birth, is arbitrary as to whom he includes in any given generation, and does not develop
his model adequately; the additional material in item 3753 is less than adequate and poorly
informed analysis of cultural developments during the colonial period. Furthermore, he focuses
overly much on literary developments to the detriments of those in the other arts and the
sciences.
3754. Valdano Morejn, Juan. La pluma y el cetro: intelectuales, cultura y generaciones en
el Ecuador, Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 31:3/4 (jul./dic. 1975), 13-71.
See comment under item 3753. Also published as a book under the same title: Cuenca:
Ediciones de la Universidad, 1977.
3755. Valdano Morejn, Juan. Poltica cultural y realidad ecuatoriana, Cultura, 6:18b
(ene./abr. 1984), 465-473.
3756. Vaquero Dvila, Jess. Sntesis histrica de la cultura intelectual y artstica del
Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1947. iii, 372 p.
3757. Vargas, Jos Mara. La cultura de Quito colonial. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo,
1941. 269 p.
3758. Vargas, Jos Mara. Historia de la cultura ecuatoriana. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1965. 589 p.
A chronologically comprehensive account of artistic, literary, and other intellectual
developments in Ecuador from the early colonial period through the second third of the twentieth
century. Stronger on the colonial than the national period, however, and much more analytical
than interpretative.
3759. Vargas, Jos Mara. La Iglesia y el patrimonio cultural ecuatoriano. Quito: Pontificia
Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1982. 149 p.
3760. 100 artistas del Ecuador, direccin editorial, Ins Mara Flores; estudio introductorio,
Hernn Rodrguez Castelo; textos, Ins Mara Flores y David Andrade Aguirre, basados en
artculos originales publicados en Revista Diners por Hernn Rodrguez Castelo [et al.]. Quito:
Dinediciones, 1990. 285 p.
Consists of biographical sketches of 100 contemporary national artists with photographic
reproductions of samples of their work.
3761. Adoum, Jorge Enrique; and Csar Alvarez. Ecuador, imgenes de un pretrito
presente. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1981. 96 leaves. Chiefly ill.
3762. Album didctico de los sellos postales emitidos por el Estado ecuatoriano, 1865-1982.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1983. 3 v.
Vol. 1 reproduces postage stamps emitted; vols. 2-3 are catalogs thereof.
3763. Almeida, Enrique. El arte genial de Vctor Mideros: centenario de su nacimiento,
1888-1988. Quito: Tall. Grf. del Instituto Andino de Artes Populares del Convenio Andrs
Bello, 1988. 156 p.
3764. Arocha, Manuel. Iconografa ecuatoriana del Libertador. Quito: Litografa Romero,
1943. 126 p.
3765. Arquitectura en Ecuador: panorama contemporneo, coordinador y compilador, Diego
Oleas S.; textos, Gustavo Medieros [et al.]. Bogot: Facultad de Arquitectura, Universidad de
los Andes; ESCALA, 1994. 235 p.
Primarily a study of contemporary architecture in and architects of Quito. Includes a summary
in English.
3766. Arquitectura de Quito: una visin histrica. Quito: Direccin de Planificacin,
Municipio de Quito; Sevilla: Consejera de Obras Pblicas y Transporte, Junta de Andaluca;
Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Espaa, 1993. 238 p. (Serie Quito; 8)
3767. Arquitectura paisajista: Quito, conceptos y diseos, Beatriz de Winthuysen Coffin [et
al.], autores de los trabajos en orden de presentacin, Patricio Morales [et al.], 1 ed. Quito:
Direccin de Planificacin, Municipio de Quito; Sevilla: Consejera de Obras Pblicas y
Transporte, Junta de Andaluca; Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Espaa, 1991. 238
p. (Serie Quito; 3)
Although I have not seen item 3766 on the history of the architecture or item 3767 on the
landscape architecture of the city of Quito, it may be assumed from other volumes in the series,
that both are well illustrated, handsomely printed, attractively bound sets of essays by
knowledgeable scholars.
3768. Arte colonial del Ecuador: siglos XVI-XVII, direccin de Jos Mara Vargas. Quito:
Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, 1985. 239 p.
A reprint; originally published as vol. 2 of Historia del arte ecuatoriano (item 3854). Largely
given over to art and architecture of the capital. The individual contributions are uneven in
quality and not documented, but the illustrations are well reproduced.
3769. Arte contemporaneo del Ecuador. Quito: Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, 1977. 260 p.
Corresponds to vol. 4 of: Historia del arte ecuatoriano (item 3854).
3770. Arte del Ecuador: siglos XVIII-XIX. Quito: Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, 1977. 237 p.
Los textos reunidos en este libro ... han sido publicados en la Historia del arte ecuatoriano
(item 3854).
3771. Arte ecuatoriano, [coordinadores generales de toda la obra, Hernn Crespo Toral,
Filoteo Samaniego Salazar, Jos Mara Vargas]. Barcelona: Salvat, 1976. 2 v.
The two volume version of: Historia del arte ecuatoriano (item 3854).
3772. Arte popular del Ecuador: 265 dibujos seleccionados, 184 temas, 53 subgneros, 29
reas visitadas, 9 gneros, Jaime Andrade [et al.]; orientacin, sistematizacin e introduccin:
Paulo de Carvalho-Neto. Quito: Alianza para el Progreso, 1965. xviii, 265, ccxcii-cccxiii p.
The illustrations consist of pen and ink drawings.
3773. Arte popular del Ecuador: areas norte, sur y centro, Jaime Andrade [et al.], Paulo de
Carvalho-Neto, compilador, 2 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1989. xxxviii, 343 p. Chiefly
ill.
A new augmented, edition of item 3772.
3774. Arte popular ecuatoriano: cermica de Chordeleg, [Daniel F. Rubn de la Borbolla et
al.]. Cuenca: Centro Interamericano de Artesanas y Artes Populares, 1977. [51] p.
3775. Arte precolombino del Ecuador. Quito: Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, 1985. 258 p.
A reprint; originally published as vol. 1 of: Historia del arte ecuatoriano (item 3854).
3776. Arts of the Amazon, edited by Barbara Braun; text by Peter G. Roe; preface by Adam
Mekler. London: Thames and Hudson, 1995. 128 p.
Includes examples of and commentary on the arts of the Achuar, the Canelos Quichua, and the
Shuar (formerly known to the outside world as Jvaros, together with the Achuar).
3777. Astudillo de Loor, Luca. Reaching Out to Urban and Rural Communities in
Ecuador, Museum, 36:4 (1984), 223-227.
3778. Astudillo de Parra, Luca. Experiencias en el Museo de Artes Populares, CIDAP: vida
y accin comunitaria, Tres de Noviembre, 31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 69-74.
3779. Barnitz, Jacqueline. Abstract Currents in Ecuadorian Art: Araceli, Maldonado,
Molinari, Rendn, Tabara, Villacis. New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1977. 47
p.
3780. Barriga Lpez, Leonardo. Ecuador y su arte. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Amauta, 1987.
96 p.
3781. Barroco de la Nueva Granada: Colonial Art from Colombia and Ecuador, organized
by the Americas Society; curated by Alexandra Kennedy and Marta Fajardo de Rueda. New
York: Americas Society, 1992. 79 p.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Americas Society in New York in
1992. Of importance to Ecuadorianists are Santiago Sebastins European Models in the Art of
the Viceroyalty of New Granada (p. 13-37) and Alexandra Kennedys Baroque Art in the
Audiencia of Quito (p. 61-77).
3782. Bayn, Damin. Larchitecture religieuse Quito: Les glises de Saint-Franois et de
la Compagnie, Cahiers dhistoire mondiale, 11:4 (1969), 633-656.
3783. Bazin, Germain. Baroque Churches of Quito, Connaissance Arts, 24 (Jan. 1982), 6269.
3784. Bedoya Maruri, Angel Nicanor. Dos capillas e iglesias de Quito, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 55:119 (ene./jun. 1972), 144-152.
On the chapels of Santa Marta (San Francisco) and of the Hospital and the churches of San
Blas and San Sebastin. Reprinted in the authors Nevados de Ecuador y Quito colonial (item
7220).
3785. Benavides Sols, Jorge. La arquitectura del siglo XX en Quito, 1 ed. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1995. 168 p. (Biblioteca de la revista Cultura; 16)
3786. Benavides Sols, Jorge. El conflicto urbano: crnicas. Quito: Facultad de
Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central, 1979. 121 p.
An anthology of the authors essays on various aspects of the architecture of the capital,
ranging chronologically and thematically from architecture of the pre-Hispanic period through
the inadequacy of recreational space in the contemporary city.
3787. Borja, Luis Felipe (hijo). Algo sobre arte quiteo, Boletn de la Academia Nacional
de Historia, 14:40/41 (jul./dic. 1936), 55-63.
3788. Camon Aznar, Jos. Oswaldo Guayasamn. Barcelona: La Poligrafa, 1973. 182 p.
3789. Capua, Constanza di. Quito colonial. Quito: Guerrero, 1968. 61, [6] p.
In Spanish and English.
3790. Cardoso Segarra, Ren. El Museo del Banco Central de Cuenca, Tres de Noviembre,
31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 61-68.
3791. La Casa de Benalczar en la ciudad de Quito. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispnica,
1973. 53 p.
The history of a mid-sixteenth-century house, now a museum and cultural center, and of its
restoration.
3792. Castro y Velzquez, Juan. Pintura costumbrista ecuatoriana del siglo XIX: (de la
coleccin de Castro y Velzquez). Cuenca: Centro Interamericano de Artesanas y Artes
Populares (CIDAP), 1990. 47 p.
A brief introduction to popular art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based
on the authors private collection, but regrettably not illustrated.
3793. Centro histrico de Quito: la vivienda, Roberto Andrade [et al.], 1 ed. Quito:
Direccin de Planificacin, Municipio de Quito; Sevilla: Consejera de Obras Pblicas y
Transporte, Junta de Andaluca; Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Espaa, 1991. 237
p. (Serie Quito; 5)
Examines in depth the interrelated issues of providing improved housing for the lower class,
including the poor, who have largely taken over the historic center of the city, and the
conservation and restoration of colonial period homes and proposes solutions that meet both
needs.
3794. Centro histrico de Quito: problemtica y perspectivas, Fernando Carrin [et al.].
Quito: Direccin de Planificacin, Municipio de Quito; Sevilla: Consejera de Obras Pblicas y
Transporte, Junta de Andaluca; Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Espaa, 1990. 239
p. (Serie Quito; 1)
The first in the series. This volumes provides a multidisciplinary introduction to the historical
preservation and socioeconomic issues involved, specifically to urban policies, the archaeology
and history of the casco colonial of the capital, cultural heritage and society, architectural
heritage, urban change and conservation, planning and illustrations. This and the other volumes
in the set are interspersed with illustrations, some in color, of uneven quality.
3795. Centro histrico de Quito: sociedad y espacio urbano, Csar Albornoz [et al.]. Quito:
Direccin de Planificacin, I. Municipio de Quito; Sevilla: Consejera de Obras Pblicas y
Transporte, Junta de Andaluca; Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Espaa, 1990. 237
p. (Serie Quito; 2)
On socioeconomic and demographic aspects of the preservation and restoration of the casco
colonial.
3796. Cermica colonial y vida cotidiana, Jozef Buys [et al.]. Cuenca: Fundacin Paul
Rivet, 1990. 77 p.
A catalog of a traveling exhibition held at the Museo del Monasterio de la Concepcin
(Cuenca), the Museo Nahm Isaas (Guayaquil), and the Museo Jacinto Jijn y Caamao (Quito)
in 1990.
3797. Cermica de Chordeleg, investigacin, exposicin, textos, dibujos y organizacin
museogrfica, Daniel F. Rubin de la Borbolla [et al.]. Cuenca: CIDAP, 1977. [48] p.
3798. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Arte ... temas generales y ecuatorianos. Cuenca: Banco
Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1988. 505 p. (Obras completas, Gabriel
Cevallos Garca; 7)
3799. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Mariologa y arte quiteo. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca,
1986. 23 p.
3800. Cevallos Romero, Alfonso. Arte, diseo y arquitectura en el Ecuador: la obra de
Padre Brning, 1899-1938. Quito: Museos del Banco Central del Ecuador: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1994. 273 p.
Father Brning (1869-1938) was the architect of the Archdiocese of Quito from 1899 through
his death and responsible for much of the modern religious architecture in and around the capital.
3801. Cevallos Romero, Alfonso. Bronce y mrmol: historia de un momento, Miscelnea
histrica ecuatoriana, 1:1 (1988), [112]-132.
An essay on the design and casting of the monument to the 10 de agosto in the Plaza de la
Independencia (Quito) and its creators, especially Lorenzo Durini Vasallo and Francisco Durini
Cceres.
3812. Chacn Zhapn, Juan. El Museo Municipal Remigio Crespo Toral, Tres de
Noviembre, 31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 47-56.
3813. Chacon Zhapan, Juan. La simbologa de la Virgen Inmaculada: ensayo de
interpretacin de la iconografa de las Inmaculadas de los siglos XVI-XIX. Cuenca: Museo
Remigio Crespo Toral, 1988. 19 p.
3814. Dvila Vzquez, Jorge. Dos jvenes pintores quiteos, Cultura, 2:5 (sept./dic.
1979), 279-288.
3815. Dean, Loral. A Family Legacy in Art, Americas, 44:3 (Mar. 1992), 38-45.
An essay on Guayasamn and his family.
3816. Delgado, Nicolas. Orgenes del arte ecuatoriano. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad
Central, 1938. 24 p.
3817. Descripcin indita de la Iglesia y Convento de San Francisco de Quito [versin e
introduccin de] Alfredo Flores y Caamao. Lima: Tall. Tip. de La Tradicin, 1924. iii, 19 p.
(Antiguallas histricas de la colonia; I)
A 1647 description.
3818. Diez, Jorge A. La pintura moderna en el Ecuador. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales [para
el] Archivo Nacional de Historia y el Museo Unico, 1938. 35 p.
A lecture on Egas, Len, Delgado, Moscoso, Mideros, Guarderas, and Latorre.
3819. El Diseo en una sociedad en cambio, C. Malo [et al.]. Cuenca: CIDAP; Quito:
Ecuador-OEA, [1981?]. 252 p.
Th proceedings of the II Seminario Nacional de Diseo.
3820. Donoso Samaniego, Daro. Diccionario arquitectnico de Quito: arquitectura
colonial. Quito: Museos del Banco Central del Ecuador, [1983?]. 277 p.
3821. E. Kingman, Hernn Rodrguez Castelo [et al.]. Quito: Publitcnica, 1983. 147 p.
Chiefly ill.
3822. Echeverra Almeida, Jos. El lenguaje simblico de los Andes septentrionales.
Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1988. 421 p.
A study of the arts and crafts of the indigenous peoples of the highlands.
3823. Echeverra Ruiz, Bernardino. La Catedral de Guayaquil, Publicaciones de la
Academia Arquidiocesana de Historia Eclesistica, 5 (nov. 1979), 5-9.
3824. Eguez, Ral Prez Torres [et al.]. Quito: Abrapalabra Editores, 1991. 1 v. (not
paginated).
3825. Eguiguren Riofro, Carlos. La Catedral de Loja. Buenos Aires: Edit. Difusin, 1947.
215 p.
3826. Endara Crow, Gonzalo. Gonzalo Endara Crow. Quito: Pintores Ecuatorianos, 1986.
219 p.
3838. Flores y Caamao, Alfredo. Artista nacional inolvidable: Bernardo de Legarda y del
Arco. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1951. 23 p.
3839. Fresco Gonzlez, Antonio. Arquitectura de Ingapirca (Caar, Ecuador), Miscelnea
antropolgica ecuatoriana, 3:3 (1983), 195-212.
3840. Fulling, Kay Painter. The Cradle of American Art, Ecuador: Its Contemporary Artists.
New York: North River Press, 1948. 77 p.
3841. Funes, Mara Antonieta. Arte precolombino ecuatoriano: las fusaiolas o torteras del
litoral, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 20:37 (1970), 155-221.
3842. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Ensayo de una iconografa del gran mariscal de
Ayacucho don Antonio Jos de Sucre: y algunas reliquias suyas y del Libertador que se
conservan en Quito. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1924. 30 p., 56 leaves of plates.
3843. Garca, Marcela. Ecuador, entreluces la sierra. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador,
Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1988. 1 v. (not paginated). Chiefly col. ill.
An album of photographs of the highlands. More important for their artistic than their
illustrative merit.
3844. Gento Sanz, Benjamn. Historia de la obra constructiva de San Francisco de Quito:
desde su fundacin hasta nuestros das, 1535-1942. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1942. 180 p.
3845. Gento Sanz, Benjamn. The History and Art of the Church and Monastery of San
Francisco de Quito, The Americas: a Quarterly Review of Inter-American Cultural History, 4:2
(Oct. 1947), 175-194.
An abridged version of item 3844.
3846. Gmez de la Torre Barba, Joaqun. Motivos indgenas ecuatorianos. Quito: Artes
Grficas, 1971. 55 p.
3847. Gonzlez de Valcrcel, Jos Manuel. Restauracin monumental y puesta en valor de
las ciudades americanas = Architectural Conservation and Enhancement of Historic Towns in
America, 1 ed. Barcelona: Blume, 1977. 175 p.
In Spanish and English. Given over primarily to a unrealized proposal for the restoration of
historic buildings in Quito.
3848. Greenleaf, R. Ecuador Was Long a Center of Painting, American Collector, 12
(Aug. 1943), 7-88.
Includes illustrations of paintings by Miguel de Santiago, Jos Cortez, Gorivar, J.M. Mora,
and Antonio Salas from the authors private collection.
3849. Guayasamn, Oswaldo. El tiempo que me ha tocado vivir. Madrid: Fundacin
Guayasamn; Instituto de Cooperacin Iberoamericana, Quinto Centenario, [1988?]. 1 v. (not
paginated)
The artists comments on his own work. Lavishly illustrated in black-and-white and in color.
3850. Guerrero, Jorge. Arte ecuatoriano: los nuevos pintores y las formas modernas,
Revista de la Universidad del Cauca, 10/11 (jun. 1947), 131-156.
3851. Hagino, Jane Parker; and Karen E. Stothert. Weaving a Cotton Saddlebag on the
Santa Elena Peninsula of Ecuador, Textile Museum Journal, 22 (1983), 19-32.
3852. Hallo, Wilson. 75 aos de pintura en el Ecuador. Quito: Galera Siglo 20, 1977. 44
p.
The catalog of an exhibition held at the Galera Siglo 20 (Quito).
3853. Historia de la cermica en el Ecuador: sntesis, Segundo Moreno [et al.]. Cuenca:
Fundacin Paul Rivet: Municipalidad de Cuenca, 1992. 48 p.
A not altogether satisfactory attempt to summarize the history of pottery from pre-Hispanic
times through the present. The illustrations, for example, are not identified.
3854. Historia del arte ecuatoriano. Quito: Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, 1977-1978. 4 v.
Somewhat uneven in coverage but lavishly illustrated. Intended for the general public.
Published in fascicles. More complete but much more difficult to obtain than the two volume
version, itself long out-of-print (item 3770).
3855. Holm, Olaf. Arquitectura precolombina en el litoral. Guayaquil: Museos del Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1985. 38 p.
3856. Holm, Olaf. La cermica colonial del Ecuador: (un ensayo preliminar), Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 53:116 (jul./dic. 1970), 265-278.
A preliminary essay because at the time ceramics manufactured during the colonial period
had barely begun to be studied.
3857. Hudson, Chris; and Colin McEwan. Focusing Pride in the Past: Agua Blanca,
Ecuador, Museum, 39:2 (1987), 125-128.
Regarding the setting up a museum on an archeological site. See also item 6006.
3858. Idrovo M., Salvador. Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Arqueologa del Colegio
Nacional Benigno Malo, Tres de Noviembre, 31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 93-95.
3859. Idrovo Urigen, Jaime. La cermica en Ingapirca. Cuenca: Comisin de Ingapirca,
1977. 102 p.
3860. Iglesias, Valentn. Miguel de Santiago y los cuadros de San Agustn, 4 ed. Quito:
Prensa Catlica, 1924. 24 p.
Reprinted in: Gaceta municipal (Quito), 19:79 (oct./dic. 1934), 253-270 + [13] leaves of color
plates.
3861. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. Examen crtico sobre los profetas de Gorbar. Quito: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1950. 99 p, 40 p. of plates.
A brief study of Nicols Javier Gorbar, generally reputed to be one of the finest painters of
the colonial period. Unfortunately the poorly reproduced plates do not allow one to appreciate
Goribars art.
3862. Jaramillo Cisneros, Hernn. Artesana textil de la sierra norte del Ecuador. Quito:
Ediciones Abya-Yala; Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1991. 180 p.
3863. Jaramillo Cisneros, Hernn. Inventario de diseos en tejidos indgenas de la Provincia
de Imbabura. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1981-1992. 3 v. (Coleccin
Pendoneros; 48-50)
Vol. 3: Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador.
3864. Jaramillo Cisneros, Hernn. Textiles y tintes, 1 ed. Cuenca: Centro Interamericano de
Artesanas y Artes Populares, 1988. xiii, 213 p.
3865. Joaqun Pinto: exposicin antolgica. Quito: Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador,
1983. [182] p.
3866. Kelly, Franklin. Frederick Edwin Church. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution
Press, 1990. 210 p.
The life and oeuvre of the creator of Heart of the Andes. Includes contributions by Stephen
Jay Gould, James Antony Ryan, Debora Rindge, and Charles Dudley Warner.
3867. Kelley, Patricia; and Carolina Orr. Sarayacu Quichua Pottery. Dallas: SIL Museum of
Anthropology, 1976. xiv, 37 p.
Also published in Spanish as: Cermica quichua de Sarayacu (Quito: Instituto Lingstico de
Antropologa, 1976).
3868. Kennedy Troya, Alexandra. Arte y ciencia: Rafael Troya (1845-1920) y los gelogos
alemanes Reiss y Stbel, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 71:151/152 (ene./dic.
1988), 427-455.
3869. Kennedy Troya, Alexandra. La cermica en el Ecuador: proyecto para un museo.
Cuenca: Fundacin Paul Rivet, 1987. 31 p.
3870. Kennedy Troya, Alexandra. La esquiva presencia indgena en el arte colonial
quiteo, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 4 (I sem. 1993), 87-101.
A revisionist study of the Andean presence in colonial art, not as artist or artisan, but as
represented in art.
3871. Kennedy Troya, Alexandra. Otras pinturas bajo el ciclo de la pasin de Cristo: pintura
mural en el Convento de San Diego de Quito, Cultura, 6:17 (sept./dic. 1983), 355-378.
3872. Kennedy Troya, Alexandra. Pompilio y su pueblo: exposicin de cermica de
Chordeleg. Cuenca: Fundacin Paul Rivet, 1988. 50 p.
An appreciation and catalog of the pottery of Pompilio Orellana, exhibited at the Museo de
Arte Moderno (Cuenca), June-July 1988.
3873. Kennedy Troya, Alexandra; and Alfonso Ortiz Crespo. Convento de San Diego de
Quito: historia y restauracin. Quito: Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1982. 365 p.
3874. Kennedy Troya, Alexandra; and Alfonso Ortiz Crespo. Continuismo colonial y
cosmopolitismo en la arquitectura y el arte decimonnico ecuatoriano, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 8, p. 115-139.
A solid survey of the art and architecture in the 1800s.
3875. Kennedy Troya, Alexandra; and Alfonso Ortiz Crespo. Reflexiones sobre el arte
colonial quiteo, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 5, p. 163-185.
An exceptionally knowledgeable and luminous essay on the art and architecture of the
colonial period.
3876. Konanz, Max. El arte entre los aborgenes de la Provincia de Manab. Guayaquil:
Edit. Senefelder, 1944. 30 p.
3877. La Orden Miracle, Ernesto. Ecuador, arte y paisaje. Madrid: Ediciones Mundo
Hispnico, 1959. 16 p., [76] p. of plates.
3878. La Orden Miracle, Ernesto. Elogio de Quito. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispnica,
1950. 122 p. + 216 p. of plates.
3879. La Orden Miracle, Ernesto. Elogio de Quito. Madrid: Ediciones Cultura Hispnica,
1975. 247 p.
Both items 3878 and 3879 are in Spanish and English. Textually they are the same work for
all practical purposes, but insofar as the illustrations are concerned they differ. The 1950 version
includes more plates than the 1975 version, in which the plates are not numbered. But the 1975
version includes some color and black-and-white plates that the 1950 version does not.
3880. Lamas D., Viviana; and Fernando Plaza Schuller. Notas sobre el estudio del arte
precolombino, Sarance, 7 (oct. 1979), 45-64.
3881. Lapiner, Alan C. Art of Ancient Peru and Ecuador: a Sales Exhibition Organized in
Cooperation with Andre Emmerich. New York: Arts of the Four Quarters, Ltd., 1968. 34 p.
3882. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Breve historia de la Iglesia Catedral de Quito durante cuatro
siglos. Quito: Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1975. 200 p.
3883. Lasso, Ignacio. Cinco pintores del Ecuador, Amrica (Quito), 14:68 (1939), 57-79.
An essay on Camilo Egas, Victor Mideros, Sergio Guarderas, Pedro Len, and Eduardo
Kingman. Also published in: Anales del Archivo Nacional de Historia y Museo Unico, 1 (jun.
1939), 216-240.
3884. Lee T., Pablo. Historia de la Iglesia de San Jacinto de El Morro. Guayaquil: Museo
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1985. 50 p.
A detailed, documented essay on the church of El Morro, constructed between 1855 and 1868.
Includes data on the history of the community. A pioneering study and as of July 1997,
apparently the only historical study of a rural church building on the coast.
3885. Lee T., Pablo; Florencio Compte Guerrero; and Claudia Peralta Gonzlez. Patrimonio
arquitectnico y urbano de Guayaquil, 1 ed. Guayaquil: La Chaza, 1989. 136 p.
3886. Lee T., Pablo; Florencio Compte Guerrero; and Claudia Peralta Gonzlez. Testimonio
y memoria de la arquitectura histrica de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Universidad Catlica de
Santiago de Guayaquil, Consejo de Investigacin, Programa de Investigacin de la Historia de la
Arquitectura y Ciudad, Biblioteca de Historia de la Arquitectura, 1996. 273 p.
The segunda edicin ampliada of item 3885. In the midst of the squalor and sprawl of the
port city, there are some architectural gems too. Fortunately the author of this bibliography has
known Guayaquil long enough to have also known some of its attractiveness of yesteryear, far
too little of which has survived, and therefore is grateful for this stunning pictorial testimony to
the city that was and to some extent, albeit increasingly less so, still is. See also item 6814.
3887. Libro de la segunda Bienal de Arquitectura de Quito, [publicacin a cargo de Rolando
Moya Tasquer y Evelia Peralta]. Quito: Ediciones CAE, Colegio de Arquitectos del Ecuador,
Ncledo de Pichincha, 1982. 207 p.
See also: Libro de la primera Bienal de Arquitectura de Quito. Quito: Ediciones CAE,
Colegio de Arquitectos del Ecuador, Ncledo de Pichincha, 1979. 304 p.
3888. Linke, Lilo. Small Artists of Ecuador, Americas, 6:5 (May 1954), 16-18.
3889. Llerena, Jos Alfredo. La pintura ecuatoriana del siglo XX. Quito: Impr. de la
Universidad, 1942. 76 p. (i.e., p. 1-76) + [16] leaves of plates.
An artist by artist account and appreciation. Published together with Alfredo Chaves, Primer
registro bibliogrfico de artes plsticas en el Ecuador (item 55).
3890. Lloret Bastidas, Antonio. El Monasterio de la Concepcin de Cuenca, Tres de
noviembre, 142 (mayo/ago. 1985), 79-117.
3891. Malo de Ramrez, Gloria. Alfarera: las ollas de barro de San Miguel de Porotos,
Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 2 (1970), 139-152.
Reprinted in: Recopilacin de investigaciones sobre artesana (Cuenca: Instituto Azuayo de
Folklore, 1975), p. 36-48.
3892. Malo de Ramrez, Gloria. Alfarera y orfebrera de Chordeleg, Revista de
antropologa (Cuenca), 1, (1969), 40-64.
Reprinted in: Recopilacin de investigaciones sobre artesana (Cuenca: Instituto Azuayo de
Folklore, 1975), p. 11-35.
3893. Manthorne, Katherine E. Creation & Renewal: Views of Cotopaxi by Frederick Edwin
Church. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. viii, 88 p.
The catalog of an exhibition held at the National Museum of American Art in 1985.
3894. Manthorne, Katherine E. Oswaldo Guayasamn, Latin American Art, 3:4 (Dec.
1991), 56-58.
An appreciation of the artist and his work.
3895. Martnez Borrero, Juan. Detrs de la imagen: un estudio sobre la iconografa popular
en el Azuay. Cuenca: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1992. 222 p.
A study of the cultural (in the social scientific sense) and ideological context of popular or
folk art.
3896. Martnez Borrero, Juan. El Museo Comunidad de Chordeleg, Tres de Noviembre,
31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 75-77.
3897. Martnez Borrero, Juan. La pintura popular del Carmen: identidad y cultura en el
siglo XVIII, 1 ed. Cuenca: Centro Interamericano de Artesanas y Artes Populares, 1983. xv,
271 p.
Reproduces and analyzes the mural paintings in the Convento del Carmen (Cuenca) and the
Chapel of Susudel (1752), 92 km. to the south of Cuenca.
3898. Masjun, Joaqun. Los cuadros de apstoles de San Francisco, Museo Histrico,
14/15 (1952), 72-84.
3899. Matovelle, Jos Julio. Imgines y santuarios de la Virgen Santsima en la Amrica
Espaola, sealadamente en la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Tip. Editora de los Tall.
Salesianos, 1910. x, 598 p.
3900. Meja, Luis. Meja. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1989. 87 p. (Coleccin
fotgrafos del Ecuador; vol. 1)
A selection of the photographers work. Emphasizes daily life and people, especially children
and the elderly.
3901. Meja, Manuel Esteban. Apuntes sobre la situacin actual de las artes plsticas
ecuatorianas, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984), 343-349.
3902. Mesa, Jos de; and Teresa Gisbert. Un diseo de Bramante realizado en Quito,
Boletn de la Sociedad Espaola de Excursiones, 55 (1951), 245-246.
3903. Mesa, Jos de; and Teresa Gisbert. The Painter Mateo Mexa and His Works in the
Convent of San Francisco de Quito, The Americas: a Quarterly Review of Inter-American
Cultural History, 16:4 (Apr. 1960), 385-396.
Also published in Spanish as El pintor Matheo Meja y sus obras en el Convento de San
Francisco de Quito, ARNAHIS, 12: 18 (10 ago. 1970), 23-34.
3904. Miller, Laura Martin. The Ikat Shawl Traditions of Northern Peru and Southern
Ecuador, Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the Andes, edited by Margot Blum Schevill,
Janet Catherine Berlo, and Edward B. Dwyer (New York: Garland, 1991), p. 337-358.
3905. Montana, Guido; and Lenn Oa. Eduardo Maldonado: del smbolo al
dimensionalismo. [Quito]: Ediciones EM, 1989. 251 p.
Text in Spanish, English, and Italian. An impressive, well illustrated survey of Maldonados
oeuvre.
3906. Monteforte Toledo, Mario. Arte, cultura y poltica cultural, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr.
1984), 329-341.
3907. Monteforte Toledo, Mario. Los signos del hombre, colaboran, Lucas Achig [et al.], 1
ed. Cuenca: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1985. xiv, 465 p.
3908. More, Humberto. Actualidad pictrica ecuatoriana, 3 ed. Guayaquil: Edit. Forma,
[1980?]. 84 p.
3909. Moreira, Dario. Cultural Policy in Ecuador. Paris: Unesco, 1979. 94 p.
3910. Moreno Proao, Agustn. Caspicara. Quito: Ediciones Paralelo Cero, 1976. 160 p.
Chiefly ill.
In Spanish and English.
3911. Moreno Proao, Agustn. Tesoros artsticos. Guayaquil: Museo Filanbanco, 1983.
298 p.
In Spanish and English. A catalogue of paintings, mostly from the Escuela Quitea, in the
Museo Filanbanco in Guayaquil.
3912. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E.; and Jaime Pea Novoa. Historia de la cermica en el
Ecuador. Cuenca: Paul Rivet Fundacin, 1992. 47 p.
3913. Moscoso Vega, Luis A. La Catedral de la Inmaculada. Cuenca: Ncleo del Azuay de
la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1962. 31 p.
3914. Motivos decorativos tradicionales en los tejidos de Imbabura, [coordinador], Hernn
Jaramillo Cisneros. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, [1988]. 283 p.
3915. Moya Tasquer, Rolando; and Evelia Peralta. Arquitectura contempornea: 20
arquitectos del Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Trama, 1990. 191 p.
3916. Moya Tasquer, Rolando; and Evelia Peralta. Arquitectura contempornea: nuevos
caminos del Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Trama, 1991. 183 p.
Both items 3915 and 3916 are clear, concise, well illustrated analyses of contemporary
architecture by a team that has been producing a whole series of a books on the new
architecture of the country, the bibliographic particulars of most of which I have been unable to
ascertain. But see also their: Casas del Ecuador: arquitectura contempornea, 1a ed. Quito:
Trama, 1994. 165 p.
3917. Muratorio, Ricardo. Corpus Christi: Dance Costumes of Ecuador, American Craft,
41:1 (Feb./March 1981), 8-13.
Describes and samples traveling exhibition, A Feast of Colors: Corpus Christi Dance
Costumes of Ecuador, the pieces for which were lent by Olga Fisch, on whom see: Pamela
Scheinman, Olga Fisch, Collector, in ibid., p. 14-15.
3918. Museo Comunidad de Chordeleg. Creacin: el arte popular en el Museo Comunidad
de Chordeleg, [coordinador Juan Martnez Borrero]. Chordeleg: Museo Comunidad de
Chordeleg; Cuenca: Centro Interamericano de Artesanas y Artes Populares, 1988. xix, 99 p.
3919. Museo de Arte Colonial (Quito, Ecuador). Gua del Museo de Arte Colonial. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1951. 53 p.
A guide to what is now the Museo Nacional de Arte Colonial. See also the much more recent
Breve catlogo del Museo de Arte Colonial, Jorge Luna Ypes [et al.]. Quito: Fundacin
Amigos del Museo Nacional de Arte Colonial, 1997. 48 p.
3920. Museo Jacinto Jijn y Caamao. Museo Jacinto Jijn y Caamao y el patrimonio
artstico, Jos Mara Vargas [editor]. Quito: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1978.
203 p.
A special issue of: Revista de la Universidad Catlica (Quito), 6:19 (jul. 1978). Fruto
colectivo del personal que trabaja en el Museo.
3921. Museo Municipal de Arte e Historia (Quito, Ecuador). Catlogo: fondo artstico.
Quito: Municipalidad de Quito, 1959. 62 p.
3922. Museo Municipal (Guayaquil, Ecuador). Gua del Museo Municipal de Guayaquil,
redactada por Lidia de Abad Valenzuela, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 44 (ene. 1982),
87-121.
3923. Museo Nacional de Arte (Quito, Ecuador). Gua del Museo Nacional de Arte. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1951. 98 p.
3924. Museo de Arte Religioso del Monasterio de la Concepcin, Tres de Noviembre,
31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 79-82.
3925. Museo de Historia de la Medicina, Tres de Noviembre, 31:144 (ene./abr. 1986), 8386.
3926. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. El arquitecto espaol don Antonio Garca y la Catedral de
Quito, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 38:92 (jul./dic 1958), 180-208.
An essay on the designer and construction of the present portal of the Cathedral. Extensively
documented.
3927. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. La arquitectura civil domstica en Quito, en la poca
virreinal, Amrica (Quito), 9:58 (nov./dic. 1934), 507-511.
3928. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Arquitectura hispano-colonial americana: curiosa ordenacin
arquitectnica en el claustro del Convento de San Agustn de la ciudad de Quito, Archivo
espaol de arte y arqueologa, 12 (sept./oct. 1928), 179-182.
3929. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Arquitectura religiosa en Quito, Boletn de Obras Pblicas,
63/65 (1948), 37-59.
3930. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. El arte en la Provincia de Quito, 1 ed. Mxico: Instituto
Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1960. 98 p. (Plan piloto del Ecuador; 4)
Navarros culminating study of the civil and ecclesiastical architecture, and of the sculpture
and sculptors of the capital during the colonial period. Illustrated with black-and-white plates.
Indexed.
3931. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Artes plsticas ecuatorianas, 1 ed. Mxico: Fondo de Cultura
Econmica, 1945. 266 p.
The authors most comprehensive treatment of the art and architecture in Quito during the
colonial period. Only the last chapter considers developments of more recent times and those
outside of the capital.
3932. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. La Catedral de Quito, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 31:79 (ene./jun. 1952), 31-101.
Well illustrated.
3933. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Contribuciones a la historia del arte en el Ecuador. Quito:
Tip. y Encuad. Salesianas, 1925-1952. 4 v.
Vol. 3: Impr. Romero; vol. 4: Prensa Catlica. Originally published in: Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 2:5 (mayo/jun. 1921), 262-278; 3:6 (jul./ago. 1921), 102-123;
3:7/8 (sept./dic. 1921), 207-228; 5:12/14 (jul./dic. 1922), 106-138; 7:19 (sept./oct. 1923), 219240; 7:20 (nov./dic. 1923), 373-393; 8:21/23 (ene./jun. 1924), 197-235; 17:50/53 (ene./jun.
1939), 9-184; 27:70 (jul./dic. 1947), 173-288; 28:71 (ene./jun. 1948), 36-79; 28:72 (jul./dic.
1948), 155-225; 29:73 (ene./jun. 1949), 5-43; 31:78 (jul./dic. 1951), 158-233; 32:80 (jul./dic.
1952), 153-205. A major set of detailed, well researched monographs on the religious art,
especially architecture, of the colonial period.
3934. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. El Convento y la Iglesia de la Merced de Quito: datos para la
historia de la edificacin del actual convento y de la segunda iglesia que concluyeron los
religiosos en 1627, Segundo Congreso Internacional de Historia de Amrica: reunido en
Buenos Aires en los das 5 a 14 de julio de l937, vol. 3 (Buenos Aires: Academic Nacional de la
Historia, 1938), p. 505-516.
3935. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Epigrafa quitea: coleccin de inscripciones antiguas y
modernas, tomadas de las iglesias, conventos, losas sepulcarales, cuadros y toda clase de
monumentos de la ciudad de San Francisco de Quito, Boletn de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de
Estudios Histricos Americanos, 1:1 (jun. 1918), 10-25; 1:3 (oct./nov. 1918), 276-295; 2:4
(ene./feb. 1919), 57-70; 2:5 (mar./abr. 1919), 173-195.
Apparently the only study of inscriptions of the colonial period in the capital ever undertaken,
at least as of July 1997. Reprinted in the authors Estudios histricos, presentacin por Jorge
Salvador Lara, recopilacin por Wilson Vega (Quito: Aymesa; Academia Nacional de Historia,
1995), 54-144.
3936. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. La escultura en el Ecuador: (siglos XVI al XVIII). Madrid:
Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, 1929. xxix, 195 p.
The classic work on the subject. Supplemented but not superseded by several modern studies,
especially those of Escudero (item 3828) and Palmer (item 3949).
3937. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Las formas arquitectnicas en la arquitectura
hispanoamericana, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 40:94 (jul./dic. 1959), 148171; 41:95 (ene./jun. 1960), 30-80; 41:96 (jul./dic. 1960), 175-218.
3970. Quito, gua arquitectnica, [Evelia Peralta et al]. Quito: Direccin de Planificacin,
Municipio de Quito; Sevilla: Consejera de Obras Pblicas y Transporte, Junta de Andaluca;
Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Espaa, 1991. 238 p. (Serie Quito; 4)
A guide to the architecture of the capital, especially to its historic buildings and monuments.
3971. Radiconcini, Giacomo. La ciencia y el arte de la construccion en Quito, Anales de la
Universidad Central, nueva ser., 1:5 (nov. 1912), 207-244.
3972. Radiconcini, Giacomo. La ciencia y el arte de las construcciones en Guayaquil,
Anales de la Universidad Central, nueva ser., 1:8 (feb. 1913), 310-319.
3973. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. Arte sacro contemporaneo del Ecuador. Guayaquil:
Museo Antropolgico y Pinacoteca del Banco Central Guayaquil; Museo Arqueolgico del
Banco del Pacfico, 1985. 39 p.
Includes a catalog of the exhibit.
3974. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. Diccionario crtico de artistas plsticos del Ecuador del
siglo XX. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, 1992. 419 p.
3975. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. Eduardo Kingman. Quito: La Manzana Verde, 1985. 253
p.
3976. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. Panorama del arte ecuatoriano. Quito: Corporacin
Editora Nacional, 1993. 167 p.
3977. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. El siglo XX de las artes visuales en Ecuador. Guayaquil:
Museo de Arte, Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988. 188 p.
A catalog of the Museo de Arte Moderno of the Banco Central del Ecuador.
3978. Rodrguez Moreno, Oswaldo A. Museo del Convento La Concepcin: catlogo de
su coleccin permanente de arte religioso, 2. ed. rev. Riobamba: Edit. Pedaggica Freira, 1986.
33 p.
3979. Rowe, John Howland. Potters Art of Atacames, Archaeology, 2:1 (Mar. 1949), 3134.
3980. Rumazo Gonzlez, Jos. Vctor Mideros. Quito: Edit. Bolvar, 1932. 52 p.
3981. Sabolo, Yves. Tumaco, 1000 ans dart precolombien. Fribourg: Office du livre,
[1986?]. 252 p.
3982. Salinas, Raul. Weaving Revival in Ecuador, Craft Horizons, 17:1 (Feb. 1957), 2629.
3983. Saln Exposicin Mariano Aguilera: 65 aos de la plstica ecuatoriana, 1917-1982.
Quito: Municipio de Quito, Departamento de Educacin y Cultura Popular, 1982. 89 p.
A retrospective look at the works of artists awarded the Mariano Aguilera prize.
3984. Saln Nacional de Cermica Artstica en el Ecuador (1: 1989: Cuenca, Ecuador). La
cermica artstica en el Ecuador, Susana Klinkicht y Mireya Salgado. Cuenca: Fundacin Paul
Rivet, 1989. 57 p.
3985. Saln Nacional de Cermica Artstica en el Ecuador (2: 1992: Cuenca, Ecuador).
Catlogo. Cuenca: Fundacin Paul Rivet, 1992. 40 p.
3986. Samaniego Salazar, Filoteo. Columnario quiteo: tres siglos de barroco decorativo.
Quito: Comisin de Valores, Corporacin Financiera Nacional, 1972. 318 p.
3987. San Pedro de Lican: restauracin de la iglesia y de sus obras de arte. Quito: Museo
del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1983. 40 p.
3988. San Sebastin: reutilizacin de una iglesia colonial en funcin de la cultura popular.
Quito: Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1983. [28] p.
A survey of the restoration of San Sebastin and of the conversion of the rectory and other
adjoining structures into a center of popular culture.
3989. Serie estudios y metodologas de preservacin del patrimonio cultural. Quito: Proyecto
Ecua-Bel: Ediciones Libri Mundi Enrique Grosse-Luemern, 1994. 7 v.
This is a difficult publication to describe. Although lacking a common title except for the
series title, the seven volumes in question constitute a bibliographic whole and therefore a finite
set. Furthermore, they all have to do with a specific subject, the restoration of the Monastery of
Santo Domingo in Quito. The other problem with this exceptionally important set is that some of
the illustrations, so critical to a work of this nature, are poorly reproduced. The volume specific
authors and titles are:
3989a. 1. Descamps, Franoise. La Loma Grande y la Plaza de Santo Domingo. 80 p.
3989b. 2. Van Aerschot, Suzanne. El Convento de Santo Domingo y su entorno. 73 p.
3989c. 3. Buys, Jozef. Investigacin arqueolgica en la Provincia de Pichincha. 53 p.
3989d. 4. Tern Najas, Rosemarie. Arte, espacio y religiosidad en el Convento de Santo
Domingo. 73 p.
3989e. 5. Alemn, Marcela; and Koen Van Balen. Puesta en valor del patrimonio
arquitectnico en el Convento de Santo Domingo. 68 p.
3989f. 6. Beltrn, Juan; Petrus De Vuyst; and Marco Rosero. Conservacin del patrimonio
artstico del Convento de Santo Domingo. 53 p.
3989g. 7. Olmedo, Freddy. Museo de Arte Fray Pedro Bedn. 35 p.
3990. Shaffer, Frederick W. Indian Designs from Ancient Ecuador. New York: Dover,
1979. vii, 95 p.
Reproduces designs from 282 spindle whorls and decorative beads. A fascinating
introduction to the ethos as well as to the artisanry and iconography of the pre-Hispanic cultures
of the central-south coast. Also published in Spanish as: Motivos indgenas del antiguo Ecuador
(Quito: Abya-Yala, 1985).
3991. Siles C., Ligia; and Guillero Torres. Causaimanta salasacacunapac churana. Quito:
Ediciones IADAP, 1989. 74 p.
A study of the arts, dress, and material culture of the Salasacas.
3992. Simposio de Historia del Arte Ecuatoriano (1: 1993: Quito). Artes acadmicas y
populares del Ecuador, Alexandra Kennedy Troya, ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Cuenca:
Fundacin Paul Rivet, 1995. xviii, 177 p.
Publishes the Memorias del I Simposio de Historia del Arte Ecuatoriano: Encuentros y
desencuentros entre las artes acadmicas y populares en el Ecuador. Quito, 16-19 de noviembre
de 1993. Congreso Ecuatoriano de Historia, Universidad Andina Simn Bolvar, Subsede
Quito.
Contents: Juan Martnez Borrero, Presentacin (p. ix-x); Alexandra Kennedy Troya,
Introduccin (p. xi-xv); Fernando Tinajero, Cultura popular y cultura acadmica: un problema
mal planteado (p. 1-11); Gloria Mara Garzn M., Situacin de los talleres, gremios y
artesanos: Quito siglo XVIII (p. 13-24); Magdalena Gallegos de Donoso, Comentario (p. 2530); Alexandra Kennedy Troya, Comentario: los artesanos agremiados de la ciudad y los
otros? (p. 31-35); Juan Castro y Velzquez, El arte popular en el siglo XIX: una aproximacin
(p. 37-50); Ximena Carceln, Comentario (p. 51-55); Ivn Cruz Cevallos, Comentario (p.
56-58); Evelia Peralta, Arquitectura popular y arquitectura acadmica en Quito: fines del siglo
XIX y mediados del siglo XX (p. 59-83); Rubn Moreira, Comentario (p. 84-88); Alfonso
Ortiz Crespo, Comentario (p. 89-92); Pablo Lee Tsui, Persistencia y cambio en la arquitectura
de Guayaquil (p. 93-107); Jos L. Guerra U., Comentario (p. 108-112); Alfredo Ochoa,
Comentario (p. 113-114); Juan Martnez Borrero, Artesana y arte popular, sector en crisis
(p. 115-133); Diego Jaramillo P., Comentario (p. 134-137); Marcelo Naranjo, Comentario
(p. 138-141); Trinidad Prez, La apropriacin de lo indgena popular en el arte ecuatoriano en el
primer cuarto de siglo: Camilo Egas (1915-1923) (p. 143-160); Lenn Oa, Comentario (p.
161-164); Carlos Rojas Reyes, Comentario (p. 165-166); Cecilia Surez Moreno,
Aproximaciones y distancias de lo culto y lo popular (p. 167-174).
3993. Sjman, Lena. Las alfareras de Jatumpamba: exposicin, Museo de Arte Moderno,
Cuenca, 5 al 29 de abril, 1989 [y] Sala de Exposiciones CCE, Ncleo del Caar, Azogues, 10 de
mayo al 2 de junio, 1989. Cuenca: Fundacin Paul Rivet, 1989. 43 p.
3994. Sols Guerrero, Mario. Situacin actual de la arquitectura ecuatoriana y su proyeccin
futura, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984), 361-369.
3995. Stierlin, Henri. LEquateur, berceau de lart du Nouveau-Monde, Oeil, 339 (oct.
1983), 22-27.
A study of the art of the peoples of Valdivia, especially as manifest in ceramics found at Real
Alto.
3996. Tarquino Len, Jos. Artistas y artesanos de Azuay. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1969. viii, 142 p.
3997. Tejada, Leonardo. Panorama del arte ecuatoriano, Filosofa, letras y ciencias de la
educacin (Quito), 3:8 (1950), 121-133.
4009. Vargas, Jos Mara. El arte quiteo en los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII. Quito: Impr.
Romero, 1949. 238 p.
A popular, hurriedly done study.
4010. Vargas, Jos Mara. Arte religioso ecuatoriano. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1956. xxiv, 250 p.
A study of religious painting and sculpture of the colonial period. The works are treated by
iconographic groups, Christ and the Trinity, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and various saints and
angels.
4011. Vargas, Jos Mara. El arte religioso en Cuenca. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo,
1967. vii, 74 p.
4012. Vargas, Jos Mara. Las artes en Quito en el siglo XVI, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 44:100 (jul./dic. 1962), 166-178.
4013. Vargas, Jos Mara. El barroco en el arte quiteo, Cultura, 8:22 (mayo/ago. 1985),
303-317.
4014. Vargas, Jos Mara. Convento de la Compaa de Jess. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, [1967]. 28 p.
4015. Vargas, Jos Mara. Convento de la Merced. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, [1967].
24 p.
4016. Vargas, Jos Mara. Convento de San Agustn. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, [1967].
30 p.
4017. Vargas, Jos Mara. Convento de San Francisco de Quito. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, [1967]. 42 p.
4018. Vargas, Jos Mara. Convento de Santo Domingo de Guzmn. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, [1967]. 53 p.
4019. Vargas, Jos Mara. Ecuador, monumentos histricos y arqueolgicos. Mxico:
Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1953. 144 p.
4020. Vargas, Jos Mara. Historia del arte ecuatoriano. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1964.
284 p.
Surveys the sixteenth through the twentieth century. The seventy-four black-and-white
illustrations are badly reproduced.
4021. Vargas, Jos Mara. Liturgia y arte religioso ecuatoriano. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, 1965. 112 p
4022. Vargas, Jos Mara. Los maestros del arte ecuatoriano. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1955.
151 p.
Focuses on eight prominent painters and sculptors of the colonial and early-national periods.
4023. Vargas, Jos Mara. Manuel de Samaniego y su Tratado de pintura. Quito. Edit. Santo
Domingo, 1975. 124 p.
Includes Samaniegos Tratado de pintura and many illustrations. The latter are not well
reproduced, however.
4024. Vargas, Jos Mara. Mara en el arte ecuatoriano. Quito: Impr. Romero, 1954. 210 p.
4025. Vargas, Jos Mara. Miguel de Santiago y su pintura. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo,
1957. 68 p.
Originally published in: Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 37:89 (ene./jun. 1957),
43-60. Father Vargass discurso de ingreso into the Academia Nacional de Historia.
Emphasizes Santiagos paintings on the life of St. Augustine, done under the patronage of Father
Basilio de Ribera--with escutcheons of noble quiteos beneath each painting.
4026. Vargas, Jos Mara. Patrimonio artstico ecuatoriano, 2 ed. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, 1972. x, 473 p.
4027. Vargas, Jos Mara. Los pintores quiteos del siglo XIX. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo,
1971. 67 p.
The artists treated include Antonio Salas, Luis Codena, Juan Minosalvas, and Joaqun Pinto.
Vargas examines such themes as genre, historical and mythological subjects, landscapes, etc.
The illustrations, unfortunately, are poorly reproduced.
4028. Vsquez Hahn, Mara Antonieta. El Palacio de la Exposicin, 1909-1989. Quito:
Presidencia de la Repblica; Comisin Nacional Permanente de Conmemoraciones Cvicas: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, 1989. 146 p.
4029. Vega, Carmen A. El pase del nio en Cuenca: concurso-exposicin en cermica,
Museo de las Conceptas, Cuenca, 22 de diciembre, 1988-18 de enero, 1989. Cuenca: Fundacin
Paul Rivet: Museo del Monasterio de las Conceptas, 1988. 46 p.
4030. Vieira V., Len. Estudios arquitectnicos: la Catedral, el Palacio Municipal, el Reloj
Pblico, la Merced, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Universidad Catlica de Santiago de Guayaquil, 1983.
169 p.
4031. Villacs Molina, Rodrigo. Productores y consumidores de arte en el Ecuador,
Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984), 351-357.
4032. Villass Gallo, Gino. Patrimonio artstico religioso de la ciudad de Latacunga y de la
Provincia de Cotopaxi. Quito: Libri Mundi, 1986. 138 p.
A comprehensive survey of the religious art and architecture of Latacunga and the Province of
Cotopaxi. Unfortunately the illustrations are not well reproduced.
4033. Villass Verdesoto, Eduardo. Grabados sobre el Ecuador en el siglo XIX: le tour du
monde. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1981. 150 p.
4034. Viteri, Oswaldo. Viteri, [responsable: Marco Antonio Rodrguez]. Quito: Pintores
Ecuatorianos, 1985. 189 p.
SCIENCE
Although the Geodesic Expedition of 1735-1744 has elicited and undoubtedly will continue
to elicit numerous studies, other scientific expeditions to Ecuador had yet to receive adequate
attention, at least as of the late 1990s. The history of interest in and teaching of the scientific
disciplines in Ecuador, with the exception of botany, also remained and perhaps still remains
virgin territory for the most part. But at least the virtually forgotten but nonetheless important
Flora Huayaquilensis (item 4093) had been rescued from quasi-oblivion by the late Eduardo
Estrella. Estrella, together with Juan Pimentel Igea and Mara Dolores Higueras Rodrguez, was
also instrumental in the publication of Antonio Pineda Ramrezs Trabajos zoolgicos,
geolgicos, qumicos y fsicos en Guayaquil, vol. 8 of La Expedicin Malaspina (Barcelona:
Lunwerg Editores, 1996).
In addition to the works listed below on the earth measuring expedition of the mid-eighteenth
century, see: Florence Trystram. Le procs des toiles: rcit de la prestigieuse expdition de
trois savants franais en Amrique du Sud et des aventures qui s'ensuivirent (1735-1771). Paris:
Payot, 1993. 286 p.
4046. Acosta Sols, Misael. Cientficos alemanes que han contribuido a la geografa e
historia natural del Ecuador, Cultura, 5:13 (mayo/ago. 1982), 135-203.
4047. Acosta Sols, Misael. Humboldt y la naturaleza ecuatoriana, Flora: revista
tropandina de ciencias naturales y biolgicas, 12:41/46 (1969), 13-87.
4048. Acosta Sols, Misael. Investigadores de la geografa y la naturaleza de Amrica
tropical: viajeros, cronistas e investigadores con especial referencia al Ecuador. Quito:
Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, Seccin Nacional del Ecuador, 1976. 201 p.
4049. Acosta Sols, Misael. Naturalistas y viajeros cientficos que han contribuido al
conocimiento florstico y fitogeogrfico del Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Ciencias
Naturales, 1968. 138 p.
Items 4048 and 4049 are useful reference works. Although they overlap in coverage, item
4048 is broader in coverage than 4049. Item 4048 covers naturalists and other scientific travelers
in general whereas item 4049 focuses primarily on botanists.
4050. Acosta Sols, Misael. Observaciones fitogeogrficas: Humboldt y Bonpland, Flora:
revista tropandina de ciencias naturales y biolgicas, 12:41/46 (1969), 89-165.
4051. Andrade Coello, Alejandro. Maldonado y la misin geodsica, Boletn del Instituto
Nacional Meja, 3:31 (mayo/jun. 1936), 82-95.
4052. Barreiro, Agustn Jess. Historia de la Comisin Cientfica del Pacfico (1862
1865). Madrid: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, 1926. xvi, 525 p.
On the activities of the Commission in Ecuador see p. 229-302. See also Marcos Jimnez de
la Espadas Diario de la expedicin al Pacfico, llevada cabo por una comisin de naturalistas
espaoles durante los aos 1862-1865. Madrid: Impr. del Patronato de Hurfanos de
Intendencia Intervencin Militares, 1928. 257 p. (Publicaciones de la Real Sociedad
Geogrfica Real Sociedad Geogrfica)
Items 4071 and 4072 are detailed, scholarly studies of the Geodesic Expedition of 1735-1744,
and of their members. Not likely to be superseded. Item 4072 also published in an Ecuadorian
edition: Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992.
4073. Madulid, D.A. The Life and Work of Luis Ne, Botanist of the Malaspina
Expedition, Archives of Natural History, 16:1 (Feb. 1989), 33-48.
Elucidates the career of one of the lesser known members of the Expedition.
4074. Martnez, Eduardo Nalo. El teniente Perrier y el Carchi, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 72:153/154 (1989), 385-396.
George Perrier was a member of the Segunda Misin Geodsica Francesa of 1899-1906, as
was the better known Paul Rivet.
4075. Matamoros Jara, Carlos. Bicentenario de una comisin cientfica, Boletn del Centro
de Investigaciones Histricas, 4:4/6 (1934-1936), 200-233.
4076. Meja, Jos. Jos Meja, primer botnico ecuatoriano, [estudio introductorio y edicin
de] Eduardo Estrella, 1 ed. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1988. 99 p.
Publishes with an introduction by Estrella seven letters of Meja, six for the first time, and his
heretofore unknown Plantas quiteas.
4077. Menten, Juan B. Breve relacin sobre la expedicin de los acadmicos franceses.
Quito, 1875. 32 p.
4078. Menten, Juan B. Historia y descripcin del Observatorio Astronmico de Quito.
Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1877. 18 p.
Menten was the first director of the National Observatory.
4079. Miller, Robert Ryal. For Science and National Glory: The Spanish Scientific
Expedition to America, 1868. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1968. xiv, 194 p.
Ecuador was a major part of the agenda of this expedition. Four of its principal members,
including Jimnez de la Espada, spent two years there. The Spanish edition, Por la ciencia y la
gloria nacional: la expedicin espaola a Amrica (1862-1866) (Barcelona: Ediciones del
Serbal, 1983; 256 p.) reproduces many of the drawings made and photographs taken during the
expedition.
4080. Muoz, Jos E . La primera expedicin cientfica espaola del siglo XVIII, Anales
de la Universidad Central, 86:341 (1957), 365-384.
4081. Naranjo, Plutarco. Una visin panormica del desarrollo de las ciencias en el
Ecuador, Amrica (Quito), 47:112 (abr. 1981), 47-60.
Also published in: Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas de la Universidad de
Guayaquil, 9/10 (1983), 119-124; and as a separate: Quito: [s.n., 1985]. 60 p.
4082. Olivares, Pierre. La roca equinoccial de Punta Palmar, grabada por La Condamine,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 72:153/154 (1989), 154-163.
Botnico, are reproduced in facsimile and in color. Includes a historical introduction and
annotations by Eduardo Estrella, the latter of which was reprinted in item 4059. See also the so
called 2a ed.: La Flora Huayaquilensis de Juan Tafalla: crnica e iconografa de una
expedicin silenciada (1779-1808). Guayaquil: Banco del Progreso; Jardn Botnica de
Guayaquil, 1995. 323 p. N.B. The latter is a revised and augmented edition just of Estrellas
history of the expedition and reprints only 52 plates with abbreviated text from the Flora
Huayquilensis.
4094. Tufio, Luis G. Datos histricos y monografa del Observatorio Astronmico y
Meteorolgico de Quito. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1913. 41 p.
4095. Varea, Anamara; Ana Mara Maldonado; and Carmen Barrera. Directorio verde:
organismos ambientalistas en el Ecuador. Quito: Comit Ecumenico de Proyectos; Bonn,
Alemania: Central Evanglica de Ayuda al Desarrollo, 1993. 187 p.
4096. Vargas, Jos Mara. Contribucin ecuatoriana a los estudios cientficos, Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de Historia, 48:106 (jul./dic. 1965), 162-179.
Also published as chap. 12 of Vargass Historia de la cultura ecuatoriana (item 3758).
4097. Vega Toral, Toms. La expedicin de los acadmicos franceses al Ecuador, Revista
del Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 29 (oct. 1937), 43-67.
4098. Vlez Valarezo, Sergio. Cultura, ciencia y tecnologa en el Ecuador: reflexiones
sobre el presente y futuro. Quito: CIPAD-Publicaciones Tercer Mundo, 1988. 181 p.
4099. Villalba F., Jorge. Los primeros ingenieros ecuatorianos su labor por el pas,
Quitumbe, 2:2 (jun. 1972), 7-40.
4100. Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang. South America Called Them: Explorations of the Great
Naturalists La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce,
1955. xii, 311, ix p.
A good read, but then so is Goodman (item 4063) who is far more reliable.
4101. Wakefield, Celia. Searching for Isabel Godin, lst ed. Chicago: Chicago Review Press,
1995. 200 p.
A popular account of the Mission godsique or earth measuring expedition of 1736 and of
Isabel Godins 1769 trek from her native Riobamba to the mouth of the Amazon to rejoin her
husband, whom she had not seen in 20 years. An enjoyable read but marred by inadequate
research and a cluttering of the past with litter of the present.
4102. Ziga, Neptal. La expedicin cientfica de Francia del siglo XVIII en la Presidencia
de Quito. Quito: Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, Seccin Nacional del Ecuador,
1977. 120 p.
A highly factual, well researched account.
EDUCATION
4103. Acua Labraa, Lus. Gesellschaft, Entwicklung und Bildungssystem in Ekuador: Eine
sozio-politishce Untersuchung vergschiedeher Entwicklungsstils. Freiburg: Hochschulverlag,
1985. xi, 333 p.
A history of education in Ecuador.
4104. Agona de la educacin media, Ernesto Albn [et al.]. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana
de Estudios Sociales, 1990. 286 p.
4105. Ailln Tamayo, Carlos. Una obra trascendental de don Eloy Alfaro: sntesis histrica
del Normal Juan Montalvo, Educacin (Quito), 117 (jun. 1942), 52-83.
4106. Ailln Tamayo, Zoila. La escuela ecuatoriana frente al problema de la cultura
indgena. Quito: [s.n.], 1935. 95 p.
4107. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. El Colegio de los Sagrados Corazones de la ciudad de
Cuenca. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1963. 261 p.
4108. Alemn, Hugo. Trnsito de generaciones: el Instituto Nacional Meja: medio siglo
de educacin democrtica. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1947. 271 p.
A history of the Colegio / Instituto Nacional Meja (Quito).
4109. La Alfabetizacin en el Ecuador: aplicacin de la metodologa reflexivo-crtica.
Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones Socioeconmicas y Tecnolgicas, 1985. 147 p.
4110. Aloma Llor, Antonio. Ojeada sobre la instruccin pblica en el Ecuador, Boletn
de estadstica, Ministerio de Instruccin Pblica, Correos, Telgrafos, Telfonos, Oriente,
Fomento Estadstico y Agricultura (Quito, 1910), 14-160.
A quantitative study of education in the 1830s and 1840s. Includes considerable population
data from the mid and late 1800s.
4111. Andrade Coello, Alejandro. Algunas ideas sobre la educacin, 2 ed. Quito: Impr.
Municipal, 1915. x, 366 p.
4112. Antologa pedaggica ecuatoriana, Emilio Uzctegui. Quito: Edit. Universitaria,
Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1984. 545, [6] p.
4113. Arguello, Fanny M. Adult Literacy Campaigns in a Multilingual Country: Official vs.
Indigenous Languages, Languages in the International Perspective: Proceedings of the 5th
Delaware Symposium on Language Studies, October 1983, the University of Delaware, Nancy
Schweda-Nicholson, editor (Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1986), p. 41-55.
4114. Armijo Surez, Julio. La educacin y sus problemas en el Ecuador. Quito: Prensa
Catlica, 1952. 46 p.
4115. Ayn de Messner, Digna. Trayectoria histrica y cultural de la Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1867-1967, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1967. 355 p.
4116. Barriga Lpez, Franklin. La educacin especial en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, Ncleo del Guayas, 1982. 288 p.
4130. Castelnuovo, Allan; and German Creamer. La desarticulacin del mundo andino: dos
estudios sobre educacin y salud, 1 ed. Quito: Dpto. de Sociologa, PUCE-Q; Ediciones AbyaYala, 1987. 260 p.
Two well done studies, both of which employ an interdisciplinary approach. The first
examines the role of the school among Indians of the highlands in promoting cultural change and
the concomitant conflict with ethnic identity. The second explores the relationship between
internal migration and health.
4131. Castillo Vlez, Othon. Los primeros: contribucin al estudio de la historia de la
pedagoga ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1940. 50 p.
4132. Ceinos Manzano, Mara Jess. El origen de los colegios jesuitas de la provincia
quitense y su incidencia en la educacin, Estudios de historia social y econmica de Amrica,
11 (1994), 231-237.
Includes some new data from the Archivo Histrico de la Provincia de Toledo de la
Compaa de Jess on the early history of Jesuit schools in the orders Province of Quito.
4133. Cevallos A., Gusta. Breve resumen histrico de la Facultad de Medicina de la
Universidad Central, Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Mdicas (Quito), 1:1 (nov. 1969), 204216.
4134. Colegio Seminario San Diego (Ibarra, Ecuador). Sesquicentenario. Ibarra: Colegio
Seminario San Diego, 1978. 88 p.
4135. Congreso de la Federacin de Estudiantes Universitarios del Ecuador (24: 1968:
Cuenca, Ecuador). F.E.U.E. Quito: La Directiva Nacional, 1969. 529 p.
Cover title: 25 aos FEUE.
4136. Cooper, Jed Arthur. The School in Otavalo Indian Society. Tucson: Panguitch
Publications, 1965. ix, 80 p.
Publishes the authors Ph.D. thesis: The Role of the School in Otavalo Indian Society.
1965. George Peabody College for Teachers. viii, 115, 3, 9 leaves.
4137. Cornejo Rosales, Jorge. La Universidad Central: sntesis histrica. Quito: Impr. de la
Universidad, 1949. 54 p.
4138. Corrales Pascual, Manuel. La educacin como agente del desarrollo: el caso
ecuatoriano, Desarrollo y cambio socio-econmico en el Ecuador (Quito: Centro Andino de
Estudios e Investigaciones, 1979), p. 203-232.
4139. Costalles Cevallos, Alfredo. Vicisitudes de la segunda enseanza en la ciudad de
Riobamba, Revista, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Chimborazo, 2:2 (abr. 1954), 4152.
4140. Cuesta V., Agustn. El Colegio Nacional de Cuenca: sus orgenes y sus rectores.
Cuenca: Colegio Nacional Benigno Malo, 1922. 21 p.
4141. Chacn, Jorge. Educacin para la vida pblica: conferencias y artculos de prensa.
Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1963. 188 p.
4142. Chacn Padilla, Gerardo. Educacin popular y libertad, 1 ed. Quito: Fundacin
Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales, 1988. 104 p.
A study of adult, continuing, and vocational education.
4143. Chvez, Ligdano. Educacin y nacionalidad. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1952. 141 p.
A prize winning essay on the role of elementary education in the formation of national culture
and nationalism.
4144. Datos referentes a don Simn Rodrguez a su paso por el Colegio Vicente Len de
Latacunga, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 43:97 (ene./jun. 1961), 20-30.
4145. De la Torre, Carlos H. La Escuela Militar de Quito en los cien aos de la repblica,
El Ecuador en cien aos de independencia (item 1927), vol. 1, p. 275-288.
4146. Destruge, Camilo. La instruccin pblica en la independencia, Boletn de la
Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil, 2:24 (feb. 1912), 379-399.
4147. Destruge, Camilo. Rocafuerte y la instruccin pblica. Guayaquil: Colegio Nacional
Vicente Rocafuerte, 1902. 18 p.
4148. Dilworth, D.W.; and Louisa R. Stark. Bilingual Education in the Highlands of
Ecuador, Linguistic Reporter, 17:2 (Feb.1975), 3-5.
4149. Directorio de instituciones con proyectos de comunicacin y educacin popular en
Ecuador. Quito: CIESPAL, 1988. 151 p.
4150. Documentos coloniales para el conocimiento de la instruccin en la Audiencia de
Quito, [recopilados y transcritos por] Rafael Euclides Silva, Anales del Archivo Nacional de
Historia y Museo Unico, poca 2, 1 (1939), 152-169.
4151. Educacin bilinge intercltural en el Ecuador: informe de una investigacin
sociolingstica en reas Quichua (1981-1982), Unidad Administrativa de Curricula de la
Escuela Rural (MEC); Sociedad Alemana de Cooperacin Tcnica (GTZ), 2 ed. corr. y rev.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1987. 330 p.
4152. Endara, Julio. Education in Ecuador: Philosophical Culture during the Colonial
Period, Inter-America, 5:3 (Feb. 1922), 149-167.
4153. Endara, Julio. El Obispo Prez Calama y su Plan de estudios de la Real Universidad
de Quito, Boletn de la Biblioteca Nacional del Ecuador, nueva ser., 2/3 (1920), 66-75.
4154. Escobar, Alfonso. Pginas histricas del Colegio San Felipe Neri de la Compaa de
Jess en Riobamba (Ecuador, S.A.): recuerdo del centenario 1838-1938. Riobamba: Impr.
Salesiana, 1938. 254 p.
4155. La Escuela india: integracin o afirmacin tnica?: la educacin indgena vista por
sus propios actores, Victor Hugo Torres, editor. Quito: COMUNIDEC, 1992. 240 p.
4156. Espinosa Tamayo, Alfredo. El problema de la enseanza en el Ecuador. Quito: Tall.
y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1916. iv, 198 p.
A brief review of the state of education (primary, secondary, and university) in the city of
Quito during the second half of the eighteenth century. Surprisingly superficial and based almost
entirely on Gonzlez Surezs, in this case, superseded Historia general. It is not true, for
example, that ninguna ciudad del Reino ... salvo Quito, contaba con establecimientos
educativos, aparte de la enseanza elemental en algunos conventos religiosos, principalmente de
la Compaa [de Jess].
4197. Lucena Salmoral, Manuel. Entre la escolstica y el despotismo ilustrado: reformismo
universitario en Quito en vsperas de la independencia, La Universidad ante el quinto
centenario: actas del Congreso Internacional de Universidades, organizado por la Universidad
Complutense de Madrid y la Universidad de Alcal de Henares en colaboracin con la Sociedad
Estatal Quinto Centenario, Madrid, 13-16 de julio de 1992 (Madrid: Editorial Complutense,
1992), p. 193-207.
A solidly researched study of late colonial attempts by Bishop Prez de Calama and President
Barn de Carondelet to reform the Universidad Real de Santo Toms, the ancestor of todays
Universidad Central. More informative and much better done than the preceding item.
4198. Libro del cincuentenario de los Colegios Normales Manuela Caizares y Juan
Montalvo, 1901-1951. Quito: Ministerio de Educacin, 1951. 681, iv p.
4199. Llor Mosquera, Vctor. La Universidad de Cuenca: apuntes para su historia.
Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1968. 163 p.
Also published in: Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 7:1 (ene./mar. 1951), 87-140.
4200. Lloret Bastidas, Antonio. El fuego de Prometeo: historia y biografa del magisterio
azuayo. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1967. 292 p.
With special attention to the Escuela Luis Cordero and the Escuela Tres de Noviembre.
4201. Malo Gonzlez, Hernn. Aporte para esclarecer el problema de la universidad en el
Ecuador, Cultura, 2:5 (sept./dic. 1979), 110-127.
4202. Mrquez, Ezequiel. El Colegio Bernardo Valdivieso, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 7:18 (jul./ago. 1923), 131-134.
4203. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Estela gloriosa del Azuay: relacin histrica del Liceo de la
Juventud, Unin literaria (Cuenca), ser. 8, 1 (abr. 1936), 27-41; ser. 8, 2 (mayo 1936), 191-198;
ser. 8, 3 (jun. 1936), 251-259.
A history of the short-lived Liceo de la Juventud of Cuenca (1873-1879).
4204. Martnez, Hector Burbano. La educacin y el desarrollo econmico y social del
Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1966. 189 p.
4205. Mashinkiash, Rafael. La educacin entre los Shuar. Suca: Mundo Shuar, [1976?].
83 p.
4206. Mata, Humberto. El problema educacional y sus proyecciones sociales en el
Ecuador, Anales de la Universidad Central, 42:267 (1929), 231-292.
4207. Merino, Jos. Mirando al maana: una educacin Shuar. Quito: Mundo Shuar, 1984.
117 p.
4208. Minaya Rowe, Liliana. Sociocultural Comparison of Bilingual Education Policies
and Programmes in Three Andean Countries and the United States, Journal of Multilingual and
Multicultural Development, 7:6 (1986), 465-477.
Compares bilingual education policies and programs in Peru, Bolivia, and Ecuador (in that
order) with those of the United States.
4209. Miranda Ribadeneira, Francisco. La primera Escuela Politcnica del Ecuador:
estudio histrico e interpretacin, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. La Unin, 1972. xiv, 386 p.
4210. Misin Andina del Ecuador. Programa de educacin rural: plan de trabajo, escuelas
de demostracin. Quito: Misin Andina del Ecuador, 1967. 48 p.
4211. Molina Correa, Gilberto. La nueva escuela ecuatoriana, 1 ed. Ambato: Edit. Po XII,
1967. 88 p.
4212. Molina Correa, Gilberto. Ruta a la escuela: pedagoga y letras, docencia y literatura
infantil. Ambato: Edit. Po XII, 1966. 196 p.
4213. Moncayo de Monge, Germania. La Universidad de Quito en tres siglos, 1551-1930.
Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1944. 241 p.
A detailed history of what would become the Universidad Central del Ecuador. A basic work,
indispensable for the colonial period. Also published as: La Universidad de Quito: su
trayectoria en tres siglos (1555-1930), Anales de la Universidad Central, 71:319/320 (jul./dic.
1943), 191-374.
4214. Monge, Celiano. Crnica quitea: el Colegio de San Fernando y Rocafuerte, Gaceta
Municipal (Quito), 19:79 (oct./dic. 1934), 125-134.
4215. Mora Brown, Alfonso. Crnicas para la historia del Colegio Militar, Boletn del
Colegio Militar (Quito), 1:1 (1938), 64-79.
4216. Mora Brown, Alfonso. La formacin de la nacionalidad como objeto de la educacin
ecuatoriana. Quito: Impr. del Ministerio de Gobierno, 1938. 53 p.
4217. Mosquera Snchez, C.; and Vctor Paredes Borja. Historia de la Facultad de Ciencias
Mdicas (1827-1977). Quito: Editorial Universitaria UCE, 1977.
4218. Muoz Llerena, Csar. Trayectoria y proyecciones de la universidad. Quito: Edit.
Universitaria, 1959. 146 p.
4219. Muoz Llerena, Csar. Valor y crisis de la universidad. Quito: Edit. Universitaria,
1982. 277 p.
Revises and updates: Trayectoria y proyecciones de la universidad.
4220. Murgueytio, Reinaldo. Bosquejo histrico de la escuela laica ecuatoriana, 19061966. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1972. 300 p.
4221. Murgueytio, Reinaldo. Cerro arriba y ro abajo: al de los humildes. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1959. 343 p.
Memoirs of the authors 40 years of pedagogical activity on behalf of the urban and rural
poor. Quasi-autobiographical.
4222. Murgueytio, Reinaldo. Educacin de espritu indgena, Previsin Social (Quito), 14
(sept./dic. 1943), 19-45.
Regarding the foundation and labors of the Instituto Indigenista del Ecuador.
4223. Murgueytio, Reinaldo. Educacin econmica: organizacin y funcionamiento de las
cooperativas escolares en el Ecuador. Quito: Tall. Grf. del Ministerio de Educacin, 1940. 97
p.
4224. Murgueytio, Reinaldo. Tierra, cultura y libertad: antecedentes para las reformas
educacional, agraria y social en el Ecuador. Quito: Tall. Grf. Minerva, 1961. 223 p.
4225. Navas, Juan de Dios. Memoria histrica del Seminario de San Luis: en la poca
colonial y en la repblica, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 18:37/39 (ene./jun.
1936), 37-59.
Also published as a separate: Quito: Impr. Salesiana, 1936. 23 p.
4226. Pacheco Prado, Lucas. La universidad ecuatoriana: crisis acadmica y conflicto
poltico. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1992. 186 p.
4227. Paredes Vsconez, Irene. Participacin de la mujer ecuatoriana en las universidades.
Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1990. 126 p.
Analyzes trends in enrollment by area of study between 1960 and 1986.
4228. Paredes Vsconez, Irene. La reforma educativa ecuatoriana: en el nivel medio, el
ciclo bsico. Quito: Tall. Grf. Minerva, 1971. 270 p.
4229. Pensamiento pedaggico ecuatoriano, estudio introductorio y seleccin, Carlos
Paladines Escudero. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1988.
527 p. (Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 33)
4230. Pensamiento universitario ecuatoriano, estudio introductorio y seleccin, Hernn
Malo G. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, [1984?]-1988. 2 v.
(Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 14, 32)
A set of essays on universities and primary sources, mostly from the nineteenth and twentieth
centuries, on university activities in Quito, Cuenca, and Guayaquil. Vol. 2 was compiled and
edited by Estuardo Arellano Escobar.
4231. Pereira V., Jos L. Multilingismo y educacin bilinge en el Oriente ecuatoriano,
Cultura, 2:4 (mayo/ago. 1979), 241-255.
4232. Pereira V., Jos L. Proyecto de investigacin de las escuelas radiofnicas Shuar,
Cultura, 2:5 (sept./dic. 1979), 225-235.
Real Colegio de San Fernando, y Universidad de Santo Thoms, del Orden de Predicadores de
la ciudad de Quito, conforme los autos (Madrid: Juan Garca Infanzon, 1692; 40 leaves); Pedro
Caldern, Memoria del reverendissimo padre maestro Pedro Calderon, de la Compaia de
Jesus, procurador general de la Provincia del Nuevo Reyno y Quito: presentado en el Real, y
Supremo Consejo de las Indias en 30. de maro de 1693: en respuesta de otro impresso del
reverendissimo padre maestro Fr. Ignacio de Quesada, del Orden de Santo Domingo,
procurador general de su provincia de Santa Cathalina Martir de Quito(Colonia: Oficina de
Hermano Dehmen, 1695; [2], 54 leaves).
4242. Plit Centeno, Manuel. Historia de los colegios de Manab. Guayaquil: Universidad
de Guayaquil, 1980. 234 p.
4243. Polticas de educacin, compilador, Santiago Escobar; Eduardo Arellano [et al.].
Quito: ILDIS; Santiago de Chile: ILDIS-CEPAL, 1990. 161 p.
4244. Polo, Antonio. Escolar al indgena?: influjo de la escuela sobre el nivel intelectual y
la conformacin de la personalidad en los nios de algunas comunidades de Bolvar. Quito:
Ediciones Indoamrica, 1981. 144 p.
4245. Ponce Leiva, Pilar. La educacin disputada: repaso bibliogrfico sobre la eseanza
universitaria en la Audiencia de Quito, Estudios de historia social y econmica de Amrica, 11
(1994), 137-150.
A useful but incomplete review of the limited literature on universities in Quito during the
colonial period and an interesting attempt to establish benchmarks in the history of the future
Universidad Central (the only university in the country until 1868, that is to say, after the
expulsion of the Jesuits in 1768 and the suppression of their university). Also published as: La
educacin disputada: la eseanza universitaria en la Audiencia de Quito, Procesos: revista
ecuatoriana de historia, 6 (II sem. 1994), 3-21.
4246. Posso Salgado, Antonio. Realidad educativa y coloniaje cultural en el Ecuador.
Ibarra: Universidad Tcnica del Norte, 1985. 170 p.
4247. Pozo de Ruiz, Gladys; and Ernesto Schiefelbein. Autonoma universitaria, gobierno y
mercado: conciliacin de intereses en el caso del Ecuador, Estudios sociales (Santiago de
Chile), 27 (1981), 109-146.
4248. Preston, Rosemary A. Education and Migration in Highland Ecuador, Comparative
Education, 23:2 (1987), 191-207.
4249. Preston, Rosemary A. Education and Migration and Their Relationship to the
Occupational Opportunities of Rural People in Highland Ecuador. Leeds: School of Geography,
University of Leeds, 1978. 28, [4] p. Working Paper; 237.
4250. Preston, Rosemary A. Nuclear Schools in Ecuador, Geographical Magazine, 54
(Sept. 1982), 516-517.
4251. Provisin y cdulas reales sobre la fundacin de un colegio de jesuitas en la villa de
Riobamba, Museo Histrico, 3:8 (mar. 1951), 46-53.
4252. Quijano, Luis. Plan de estudios de filosofa para el Colegio Real de San Fernando de
Quito: ao de 1803, publicado con una introduccin por C. de Gangotena y Jijn, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 6:15 (ene./jun. 1923), 129-137.
4253. Reyes Torrres, Elssa. El ausentismo escolar en el Ecuador. Quito: Colegio Normal
Manuela Caizares, 1952. 105 p.
4254. Ribadeneira, Edmundo. La reforma universitaria. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1975.
90 p.
4255. Rivera Pizarro, Jorge. Una pedagoga popular para la educacin intercultural
bilinge, 1 ed. Quito: Proyecto de Educacin Bilinge Intercultural, Convenio MEC-GTZ:
Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1987. 151 p.
4256. Robalino Dvila, Luis. Alfaro ... laicismo, Pensamiento: revista ecuatoriana de
cultura, 12:42 (mar. 1963), 85-96.
4257. Romo S., Luis A. Universidad y juventud. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1972.
111 p.
4258. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. Las corrientes pedaggcas que han dominado en el Ecuador
desde la fundacin de las normales, Revista ecuatoriana de educacin, 4:14 (mar./abr. 1951),
29-38.
4259. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. El pensamiento de la juventud universitaria de Quito. Quito:
Edit. Universitaria, 1966. 175 p.
4260. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. Una etapa de reforma educativa, Revista ecuatoriana de
educacin, 10:46 (abr./jun. 1957), 32-52.
A study of Carlos Zambranos years (1935-1936) as Minister of Education.
4261. Salazar C., Rosa. La educacin en el Ecuador desde sus orgenes hasta el
advenimiento de Garca Moreno, Revista ecuatoriana de educacin, 8:38 (jul./ago. 1955), 4974.
4262. Snchez, Fausto. Universidad: crnica de un suicidio. Quito: Departamento de
Difusin y Publicaciones, Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Universidad Central del
Ecuador, 1986. 224 p.
4263. Snchez Astudillo, Miguel. Textos de catedrticos jesuitas en Quito colonial: estudio
y bibliografa. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1959. 146 p.
Describes 408 texts, including manuscript materials, of the colonial period employed by the
Jesuits in Quito during the colonial period.
4264. Snchez Bravo, Mariano. La primera Escuela Nutica, 1822-1830. Guayaquil:
Instituto de Historia Martima, 1988. 192 p.
4265. Snchez-Parga, Jos. Escolarizacin y bilingismo en la sierra ecuatoriana, 1 ed.
Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1991. 440 p.
4266. Serrano de Wilson, Emilia, Baronesa de Wilson. La ley del progreso: pginas de
instruccin pblica para los pueblos sud-americanos. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1880. 136 p.
Dedicada a la Repblica del Ecuador.
4267. Sigsfeld, Donata von. Educacin no formal y poblacin marginada. Quito: PUCEILDIS, [1989?]. 424 p.
4268. Soto, Domingo M. La instruccin primaria en Loja, Corona de Mara, 49:554 (feb.
1948), 58-62; 49:555 (mar. 1948), 95-98; 49:556 (abr. 1948), 132-135.
4269. Sumaria sobre averiguarse por los estudiantes del Colegio Real de San Fernando que
cometieron el delito de conspiracin, y tumulto y destrozaron los platos, jarros y dems vasijas y
manteles del Refectorio, al tiempo de la cena del da 30 de abril del presente ao de 784:
pretendiendo no hubiese tal Refectorio, porque les daban de comer malisimamente y no pagar los
80 pesos prevenidos en la constitucin y el auto de reforma del Sr. Vice Patrono, ARNAHIS, (10
ago. 1968), 134-148.
4270. Tern, Francisco. El desarrollo de la educacin en el presente siglo, El Ecuador en
el siglo XX (item 2254), p. 337-400.
A data laden but somewhat spotty review of the history of education from 1900 through 1980.
4271. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Apuntes para la historia de la educacin laica en el Ecuador.
Quito: Tall. Grf. del Ministerio del Tesoro, 1948. 190 p.
Covers the years 1895 through 1947. This work conjointly with items 4272 through 4277
constitute the most detailed and well researched study of public education in the country during
the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries.
4272. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Evolucin de las ideas pedaggicas en el Ecuador. Quito: Impr.
de la Universidad, 1953. 170 p.
4273. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Fundacin de la universidad y primer rectorado, Revista de la
Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1 (feb. 1972), 11-81.
4274. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Garca Moreno y la instruccin pblica, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 3:7/8 (sept./dic. 1921), 234-254; 4:9 (ene./feb. 1922), 63-107;
4:10/11 (mar./jun. 1922), 159-204; 5:12/14 (jul./dic. 1922), 139-204; 6:15/17 (ene./jun. 1923),
93-128; 7:18 (jul./ago. 1923), 69-122.
Also published as a separate: Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1923. 270 p.
4275. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Garca Moreno y la instruccin pblica, 2 ed. Quito: Edit.
Ecuatoriana, 1940. 430 p.
4276. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La instruccin pblica de 1830 a 1930: apuntes para su
historia, El Ecuador en cien aos de independencia (item 1927), vol. 2, p. 277-318.
Reprinted in authors: Monografas histricas (item 2198), p. 463-539; and in: Resumen
histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 289-318.
4277. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Problemas escolares: por la libertad de enseanza. Quito: Tip.
Prensa Catlica, 1930. 199 p.
4278. Torres, Luis F. Las misiones extranjeras y los institutos normales del Ecuador,
Revista ecuatoriana de educacin, 4:14 (mar./abr. 1951), 74-96.
4279. Torres, Rosa Mara. Entre la accin y la praxis: crnica de un proceso de formacin
de educadores populares, 1 ed. Quito: CIUDAD, 1989. 104 p.
4280. Universidad Central del Ecuador. Coleccin documental de la Universidad Central
del Ecuador, [edicin e introduccin de] Neptal Zuiga. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1967. lviii,
365 p.
An anthology of sources, dating from as early as 1603 but mostly from the 1700s and 1800s-the originals of which are in the Archivo General de la Universidad Central del Ecuador--for the
study of the history of the University. Apparently only vol. one was published.
4281. Universidad Central del Ecuador. Documentos inditos para la historia de la
Universidad de Quito, [recopilados y transcritos por] Carlos R. Tobar, Anales de la Universidad
de Quito, 7:49 (ago. 1892), 87-102; 7:50 (sept. 1892), 120-143; 7:51 (oct. 1892), 200-215; 7:52
(nov. 1892), 231-246; 7:53 (dic. 1892), 315-326; 8:54 (ene. 1893), 16-27; 8:55 (feb. 1893), 9699.
4282. Universidad y desarrollo. Cuenca: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Sede
en Cuenca: Fundacin Hanns Seidel, [1987?] 102 p.
4283. Uzctegui, Emilio. Algo acerca de la historia del laicismo en el Ecuador, Revista
ecuatoriana de educacin, 1:1 (jul/ago. 1947), 29-41.
4284. Uzctegui, Emilio. Compulsory Education in Ecuador. Paris: UNESCO, 1951. 60 p.
4285. Uzctegui, Emilio. Desarrollo de la educacin en el Ecuador, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 57:123 (ene./jun. 1974), 160-178.
4286. Uzctegui, Emilio. La educacin ecuatoriana en el siglo del liberalismo. Quito: Edit.
Voluntad, 1981. 346 p.
4287. Uzctegui, Emilio. La obligatoriedad de la educacin en el Ecuador. Quito: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1952. 158 p.
See also item 4284.
4288. Uzctegui, Emilio. Poltica educativa. Quito: Edit. ENA, 1986. 175 p.
4289. Vacas Galindo, Enrique. Estudios y enseanza de los dominicos en el Reino de Quito
en los siglos XVI y XVII, Corona de Mara, 38:439-443 (ago./dic. 1937), 190-200; 39:444/445
(ene./feb. 1938), 13-16; 39:446 (mar. 1938), 48-50; 39:447 (abr. 1938), 67-69; 39:448/449
(mayo/jun. 1939), 90-92; 39:451/452 (ago./sept. 1938), 137-138; 39:453/454 (oct./nov. 1938),
173-175.
4290. Valdivieso E., Mara Eugenia. La educacin en el Ecuador desde el advenimiento del
Liberalismo-1895, Revista ecuatoriana de educacin, 8:38 (jul./ago. 1955), 75-123.
4291. Vallejo Bez, Carlos. Perfil histrico del Colegio Central Tcnico del Estado. Quito:
Impr. Colegio Central Tcnico, 1959. 165 p.
4292. Vsconez, Carlos A. Ensayo histrico sobre la educacin primaria en Quito durante
la colonia, Horizontes (Quito), segunda poca, 2/3 (1937), 33-38.
4293. Velasco, Ermel. Estadstica de las universidades ecuatorianas, Revista ecuatoriana
de educacin, 2:6 (ene./jun. 1949), 120-148.
Reports numbers of students and graduates for 1929-1948.
4294. Verdesoto de Romo Dvila, Raquel. Historia de la Facultad de Filosofa, Revista
ecuatoriana de educacin, 6:27 (1953), 7-87.
A history of the Arts Faculty of the Central University.
4295. Verduga Loor, Franklin. Apuntes de la historia de la educacin del Ecuador: 18951977. Portoviejo: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Manab, 1978. 182 p.
4296. Vicua Izquierdo, Leonardo. Universidad y desarrollo, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Universidad
de Guayaquil, 1985. 173 p.
4297. Villagmez, Juan Aurelio. Ensayo de monografa acerca de la Universidad Central
del Ecuador. Quito: Universidad Central, 1924. 73 p.
Originally published as: Ensayo de monografa: la Universidad Central de Quito, Anales de
la Universidad Central, nueva ser., 1:6 (dic. 1912), 252-266; 1:7 (ene. 1913), 275-285; 1:8 (feb.
1913), 299-309; 1:9/10 (mar./abr. 1913), 331-343; 2:28/29 (ene./feb. 1915), 386-396; 2:32/33
(mayo/jun. 1915), 475-490.
4298. Villalba F., Jorge. Centenario de la primera Escuela Politcnica de Quito, 1870-1970:
la obra intelectual de los profesores politcnicos, Revista de la Universidad Catlica del
Ecuador, 1 (feb. 1972), 320-336.
Also published in: Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 54:118 (jul./dic. 1971), 320336.
4299. Villalba F., Jorge. Una dcada institucional, 1961-1971: crnica universitaria,
Revista de la Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1 (feb. 1972), 83-125.
4300. Villalba F., Jorge. La instruccin pblica en la villa de Ibarra en el siglo XVII: el
colegio de la Compaa de Jess, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia (Quito), 55:120
(jul./dic. 1972), 181-204; 56:121 (ene./jun. 1973), 77-92; 56:122 (jul./dic. 1973), 68-81.
A history of the Jesuit high school in Ibarra in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
4301. Villalba F., Jorge; Berenice Cordero; and Elvira Pulles. Bolvar y la educacin en el
Ecuador, Revista de la Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 13:42 (ago. 1985), 147-191.
4302. Villarroel I., Jorge. Breve diagnstico de la educacin ecuatoriana. Ibarra:
Universidad Tcnica del Norte, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educacin, 1988. 243 p.
4303. Wilson, Jacques M.P. The Development of Education in Ecuador. Coral Gables:
University of Miami Press, 1970. 169 p.
The revised version of authors doctoral dissertation presented in 1966 at the University of
Texas.
4304. Ynez Cosso, Consuelo. Algunos aspectos sobre la educacin bilinge-intercultural
en el Ecuador, Revista de la Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 13:42 (ago. 1985), 67-108.
4305. Ynez Cosso, Consuelo. Elementos para una definicin de educacin bilinge
intercultural, Cultura, 7:21 (ene./abr. 1985), 451-481.
4306. Ynez Cosso, Consuelo. The Implementation of Language Policy: the Case of
Ecuador, International Review of Education, 37:1 (1991), 53-66.
4307. Ypez Villalba, Eduardo. 150 aos de la Facultad de Medicina: 1827-26 de octubre1977. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1979. 333 p.
IDEAS
A useful summary of what is known regarding the short-lived Sociedad Econmica de los
Amigos del Pas de Quito. It only met three times, on Nov. 30, 1791, Feb. 29 and March 10,
1792, before being suppressed by order of the crown.
4327. Bustamante, Jos Rafael. La filosofa en el Ecuador, Amrica (Quito), 9:58 (1934),
165-171.
4328. Crdenas Reyes, Mara Cristina. Libertad y liberacin en la obra de Jos Peralta.
Quito: Fundacin Friedrich Naumann, 1989. 118 p.
4329. Crdenas Reyes, Mara Cristina. El pensamiento social de Jos Peralta: hiptesis para
su investigacin, Revista del IDIS, 16 (nov. 1986), 149-173.
4330. Crdenas Reyes, Mara Cristina. Velasco Ibarra, ideologa, poder y democracia.
Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional: Fundacin Friedrich Naumann, 1991. 110 p. (Biblioteca
de ciencias sociales; 32)
An assessment of the origins and content of the political philosophy of Velasco Ibarra,
nominally a populist. Also examines the vagaries and shifts in the perennial presidents ideas
and politics.
4331. Carrin, Agustn. Breve historia del periodismo en Loja y sus escritores. Loja: Tip. El
Heraldo, 1918. 28 p.
4332. Carrin, Benjamn. Historia de las ideas en el Ecuador, Revista de historia de las
ideas, 1 (1959), 251-263.
4333. Ceriola, Juan B. Compendio de la historia del periodismo en el Ecuador. Guayaquil:
Litografa e Impr. Filantrpica del Guayas, 1909. vi, 196 p.
4334. Cerutti-Guldberg, Horacio V. Aproximacin a la historiografa del pensamiento
ecuatoriano, Latinoamrica: anuario de estudios latinoamericanos, 11 (1978), 215-244.
4335. Cerutti-Guldberg, Horacio V. De varia utpica, 1 ed. Bogot: Publicaciones
Universidad Central: Instituto Colombiano de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Carbie, 1989.
237 p.
On the political and social views of Simn Bolvar and Ecuadorian philosophy.
4336. Cerutti-Guldberg, Horacio V. Situacin de los estudios filosficos y sociales en el
Ecuador en la actualidad, Lateinamerika Studien, 7 (1980), 503-511.
4337. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Causas sociales de nuestra crisis intelectual, Memoria del
primer Congreso de Sociologa Ecuatoriana (item 8313), t. 2, p. 225-247.
A brilliant essay on intellectual conditions and problems in Cuenca in the 1950s.
4338. Cevallos Garca, Gabriel. Las ideas liberales en el Ecuador: breve esquema para su
historia, Revista de historia de las ideas, 2 (1960), 55-72.
4349. Ciriza, Alejandra. Civilizacin y barberie: descriptiva y proyecto en el discurso
poltico ecuatoriano, Revista interamericana de bibliografa = Inter-American Review of
Bibliography, 41:1 (1991), 82-100.
A working paper on the political discourse of Eugenio Espejo, Vicente Rocafuerte, and Juan
Montalvo as manifested in their published works. Includes a useful bibliography. See also
Cirizas Realismo y utopa en el discurso poltico de un ilustrado ecuatoriano: D. Vicente
Rocafuerte (1783-1847), Revista interamericana de bibliografa = Interamerican Review of
Bibliography, 44:3 (1994), 437-453.
4340. Espejo, Eugenio. Escritos del Doctor Francisco Javier Eugenio Santa Cruz y Espejo.
Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1912-1923. 3 v.
Vols. 1-2 were edited by Federico Gonzlez Surez, and vol. 3 by Jacinto Jijn y Caamao
and Homero Viteri Lafronte. T. 2: Impr. Nacional; t. 3: Edit. Artes Grficas. The most
comprehensive edition of the pensadors multifaceted works. On the undeniable weaknesses of
this never finished but in many respects laudable and still indispensable complete works, see
the following two items.
4341. Espejo, Eugenio. Obra educativa, edicin, prlogo, notas y cronologa, Philip L.
Astuto. Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1982. xxxviii, 551 p.
The most acceptable edition as of July 1997 of: El nuevo Luciano de Quito, Marco Porcio
Catn, and El nuevo Luciano de Quito, o, Despertador de los ingenios quiteos (Ciencia
blancardina). Newly transcribed and well edited by Astuto.
4342. Espejo, Eugenio. El nuevo Luciano de Quito, prlogo del seor Isaac J. Barrera; texto
establecido y anotado por el Padre Aurelio Espinosa Plit, S.I. Quito: Comisin de Propaganda
Cultural del Ecuador, 1943. xxvii, 238 p.
In addition to Espinosa Plits Advertencia crtica (p. xxiii-xxvii), see his Para la segunda
edicin del Nuevo Luciano de Quito, Memorias de la Academia Ecuatoriana, nue. ser., 3:1
(oct. 1923), 109-121.
4343. Espejo, Eugenio. Primicias de la cultura de Quito, 1a ed. Quito: Colegio de
Periodistas de Pichincha, 1996. 320 p.
Reprints in photofacsimile and modern typeface the 1791 Primicias de la cultura de Quito
and the Instruccin previa, of which Espejo was the author, not just the editor. Includes a quite
substantial, well documented, refreshingly objective introductory study of El Espejo de las
Primicias de la cultura de Quito by Hernn Rodrguez Castelo (p. 7-156).
4344. Espinosa Zevallos, Javier. La introduccin de la sociologa en el Ecuador.
Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1972. 83 p.
4345. Estrella, Eduardo. El padre Juan de Velasco: historia natural y defensa del indgena
americano, Quipu (Mxico, D.F.), 6:2 (1989), 135-150.
An essay on scientific knowledge in eighteenth-century Quito as taught by the Jesuits and
influenced by the Enlightenment, especially as manifested in the writings of Juan de Velasco.
4346. Eugenio Espejo y el pensamiento precursor de la independencia, Jorge Nuez
(compilador). Quito: ADHILAC, 1992. 272 p.
4347. Falconi Villagmez, J.A. Introduccin de la imprenta y periodismo poltico en el
Ecuador: (sntesis histrica), Revista, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:22 (1960), 162-200.
4348. Fernandez, Jorge. Trnsito a la libertad: biografa del diario El Comercio. Quito:
Edit. El Comercio, 1956. 219 p.
4349. Grisanti, Angel. El general Sucre, precursor del periodismo (primicias de la prensa
en el Ecuador): homenaje patritico en conmemoracin del 124 de la libertad del Ecuador.
Quito: Edit. Plenitud, 1946. 32 p.
Focuses on the role of Sucre as a patron of journalism while he was Intendant of Quito. He
founded El Monitor quiteo and supported El Atleta (Guayaquil) and El Patriota de Guayaquil.
4350. Guerra Bravo, Samuel. Eugenio Espejo, pensador filosfico, Latinoamrica:
anuario de estudios latinoamericanos, 11 (1978), 245-267.
4351. Guerra Bravo, Samuel. Las ideas positivistas en Ecuador, Latinoamrica: anuario
de estudios latinoamericanos, 15 (1982), 51-92.
4352. Guerra Bravo, Samuel. El pensamiento ecuatoriano en los siglos XVI, XVII y
XVIII, Cultura, 2:4 (mayo/ago. 1979), 65-94.
Also published in: Latinoamrica: anuario de estudios latinoamericanos, 13 (1980), 223255.
4353. Henrquez, Alberto. Vicente Rocafuerte: la Ilustracin en el poder poltico, Revista
de historia de las ideas, 5/6 (1984/1985), 107-157.
4354. Jerves, Alfonso A. El periodismo en el Azuay, Corona de Mara, 29:326 (ene.
1928), 6-12.
An essay on El Eco del Azuay (1828) and its editor Father Solano.
4355. Keeding, Ekkehardt. Espejo y las banderitas de Quito de 1794, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 57:124 (jul./dic. 1974), 252-273.
4356. Keeding, Ekkehart. La Ilustracin en Quito y su influjo en la independencia. (Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 67:143/144 (1984), 182-190)
A precis of the authors Das Zeitalter der Aufklrung in der Provinz Quito (item 4357). N.B.
This article was not actually published until 1993.
4357. Keeding, Ekkehart. Das Zeitalter der Aufklrung in der Provinz Quito. Kln: Bhlau
Verlag, 1983. xiii, 591 p.
A major and exceptionally important monograph on the Enlightenment in Ecuador during the
late- colonial and independence periods. Originally presented as the authors doctoral
dissertation. Based on research in 48 archives and libraries throughout the Americas and Europe.
For a precis in Spanish see item 4356.
4358. Landzuri, Mariana. Women, Ideology and Language in the Ecuadorian print media.
East Lansing, Mich.: Michigan State University, 1991. 25 p. (Working papers, Women in
International Development; # 218)
4359. Lanning, John Tate. La oposicin a la Ilustracin en Quito, Revista bimestre
cubana, 43:3 (mayo/jun. 1944), 224-241.
4373. Ochoa Antich, Nancy. La mujer en el pensamiento liberal. Quito: Edit. El Conejo,
1987. 208 p.
4374. Ostolaza, Carlos. La religiosidad de Juan Montalvo, Cultura, 5:12 (ene./mar. 1982),
275-295.
4375. Pez Cordero, Alexei. Los orgenes de la izquierda ecuatoriana: notas sobre
movimientos sociales e ideologa, Quitumbe, 7 (1990), 81-99.
4376. Paladines, Carlos. Ciencia y pensamiento moderno en la Audiencia de Quito,
Cultura, 8:24a (ene./abr. 1986), 77-92.
A critical examination of the Juan Magnins Milliet en armonia con Descartes, o, Descartes
reformado, a mid eighteenth century work important for understanding the extent to which
Ecuadorian intellectuals were conversant with their European counterparts and the transition
from scholasticism to modern philosophy in the Audiencia of Quito.
4377. Paladines, Carlos. La conformacin del Estado-nacional desde la perspectiva del
pensamiento ilustrado y romntico ecuatoriano, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 6 (II
sem. 1994), 71-81.
Examines the concepts of state, nation, and nation-state as perceived by Eugenio Espejo, a
man of the Enlightenment, and Pedro Moncayo, a Romantic.
4378. Paladines, Carlos. Filosofa e historia de las ideas en la dcada de los 70: el caso del
Ecuador, Cultura, 3:11 (sept./dic. 1981), 247-264.
4379. Paladines, Carlos. Montalvo, Mera y el problema nacional, Revista de historia de
las ideas, 2 poca, 4 (1983), 51-61.
4380. Paladines, Carlos. Notas sobre metodologa de investigacin del pensamiento
ecuatoriano, Latinoamrica: anuario de estudios latinoamericanos, 11 (1978), 179-213.
4381. Paladines, Carlos. Pensamiento independentista: el movimiento ilustrado
ecuatoriano, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 6, p. 165-209.
A superior essay on intellectual developments during the neocolonial period. Paladines takes
in the mid-1740s through the mid-1840s, inasmuch as he considers the Enlightenment to have
arrived with the Geodesic Mission of 1736 and to have ended with the death of Rocafuerte.
4382 Paladines, Carlos. Rodolfo Agoglia: la construccin del humanismo histrico,
Revista de historia de las ideas, 2:8 (1987), 157-179.
4383. Paladines, Carlos. Sentido y trayectoria del pensamiento ecuatoriano. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1990. 415 p. (Biblioteca de la revista Cultura; 2)
A solid history of ideas in Ecuador from the mid-eighteenth century through the earlytwentieth. The result of many years of research and reflection.
4384. Paredes, Angel Modesto. Pensamiento sociolgico, estudio introductorio y seleccin
de Rafael Quintero. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1981. 454 p. (Biblioteca bsica del
pensamiento ecuatoriano; 6)
Reprinted in a 2a in 1988.
4385. Paz y Mio Cepeda, Juan J. Fray Vicente Solano y el pensamiento conservador en
Ecuador, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 3 (II sem. 1992), 103-113.
A recapitulation of the introduction to item 4386.
4386. Paz y Mio Cepeda, Juan J. La gran polmica Irisarri-Solano, 1839-1840. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, 1988. 414 p.
Brings together with a substantial introduction by Paz y Mio the debate carried on by
Vicente Solano and Antonio Jos de Irisarri in the several newspapers they founded or edited
regarding the respective roles and rights of ecclesiastical and civil authorities and therefore of
what the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state should be.
4387. Pensamiento de Pedro Moncayo, Enrique Ayala Mora, editor. Quito: Corporacin
Editora Nacional: Fundacin Friedrich Naumann: Corporacin Imbabura, 1993. 213 p.
(Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 20)
Contents: Enrique Ayala Mora, El Ecuador del siglo XIX y Pedro Monayo (p. 9-25);
Rodrigo Villegas Domnguez, Rasgos biogrficos de Pedro Moncayo (p. 27-41); Marcelo
Villamarn C., El Liberalismo en la poca de fundacin de la Repblica (p. 43-53); Julio Csar
Trujillo, El Estado en el pensamiento de Pedro Moncayo (p. 55-66); Roberto Morales Almedia,
Pedro Moncayo, fundador del periodismo de combate (p. 67-96); Guillermo Bustos, El
Ecuador de 1825 a 1875: notas para su anlisis historiogrfico (p. 97-104); Pedro Moncayo,
Intervenciones en el Congreso Nacional, seleccin de textos a cargo de Cecilia Durn (p. 105207).
4388. Pensamiento esttico ecuatoriano, estudio y seleccin de Daniel Prieto Castillo.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1986. 368 p. (Biblioteca
bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 24)
A study of esthetics in Ecuador and selections from the writings of Jess Quijada, Csar
Alfonso Pastor, Federico Gonzlez Surez, Angel Modesto Paredes, Ricardo Larran y Bravo,
Atanasio Viteri, Aurelio Espinoza Plit, and Jos Mara Vargas.
4389. Pensamiento idealista ecuatoriano, estudio introductorio y seleccin, Horacio Cerutti
Guldberg. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1981. 533 p.
(Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 8)
A study of idealism in Ecuador and selections from the writings of the Gonzalo Zaldumbide,
Nicols Jmenez, Roque Bustillos, Jos Rafael Bustamante, Fernando Chves, Aurelio H. Garca,
Vctor Gabriel Garcs, and Guillermo Bustamante.
4390. Pensamiento ilustrado, estudio introductorio y seleccin, Carlos Paladines. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1981. 608 p. (Biblioteca bsica del
pensamiento ecuatoriano; 9)
Includes selections from the writings of Eugenio Espejo.
See also: Vision actual de Eugenio Espejo (Quito: Fundacion Eugenio Espejo; Fundacion
Friedrich Naumann, 1988; 57 p.) with essays by Juan Juan Paz y Mio Cepeda on El
pensamiento poltico de Eugenio Espejo (p. 7-15), Carlos Paladines on Eugenio Espejo y su
visin crtica de la poca (p. 17-26) and Eugenio Espejo: dos aproximaciones a su poa y su
pensamiento (p. 45-56), Plutarco Naranjo on El pensamiento social de Eugenio Espejo (p. 2735), and Francisco Huerta Montalvo on Espejo: duende sin tiempo (p. 37-44).
4391. Pensamiento indigenista del Ecuador, estudio introductorio y seleccin, Claudio Malo
Gonzlez. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1988. 646 p.
(Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 34)
An anthology of indigenist writings, ranging from Po Jaramillo Alvarados El indio
ecuatoriano of 1922 through Gonzalo Rubio Orbes El indio ecuatoriano of 1987.
4392. Pensamiento popular ecuatoriano, estudio y seleccin, Jaime Durn Barba. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1981. 583 p. (Biblioteca bsica del
pensamiento ecuatoriano; 13)
A study of and sources on labor movements and views in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries.
4393. Pensamiento positivista ecuatoriano, estudio introductorio y seleccin, Carlos
Paladines, Samuel Guerra B. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional,
[1982]. 506 p. (Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 16)
A study of positivism in Ecuador and selections from writings of the positivists Julio Endara,
Juan H. Peralta, Julio Arauz, and Csar H. Semblantes.
4394. Pensamiento romntico ecuatoriano, estudio introductorio y seleccin, Rodolfo
Agoglia. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1980. 440 p.
(Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 5)
A study of romanticism in Ecuador and selections from writings of Juan Len Mera, Juan
Montalvo, Elas Laso, Federico Gonzlez Surez, Remigio Crespo Toral, and Luis A. Martnez.
4395. El Pensamiento social ecuatoriano en el siglo XX: programa de investigacin, Mara
Cristina Crdenas Reyes [et al.]. Cuenca: Facultad de Filosofa, Letras y Ciencias de la
Educacin, Universidad de Cuenca, 1994. 145 p.
4396. Peralta, Jos. Ensayos filosficos, introduccin de Luis Monsalve Pozo. Cuenca: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1961. 534 p.
4397. Peralta, Jos. Pensamiento filsofico y poltico, estudio y seleccin, Juan Cordero I.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, [1981]. 425 p. (Biblioteca
bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 11)
4398. Prez, Galo Ren. Mis encuentros con Montalvo, Cultura, 5:12 (ene./mar. 1982),
169-183.
4399. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. Las primeras imprentas e impresos del Ecuador: (Ambato
1755-Quito 1757-Guayaquil 1821 y Cuenca 1827), Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 43
(dic. 1981), 3-33 [i.e., 37].
4413. Roig Alsina, Elisabeth. La Psicologa de los pueblos de Alfredo Espinosa Tamayo,
Revista de historia de las ideas, 7 (1986), 57-80.
4414. Sacoto, Antonio. Montalvo y el pensamiento hispanoamericano del siglo XIX,
Revista nacional de cultura (Caracas), 48:26 (ene./mar. 1987), 457-79.
4415. Salvador Lara, Jorge. Ensayos sobre Montalvo y Mera, 1 ed. Quito: Comisin
Nacional Permanente de Conmemoraciones Cvicas, 1991. 222 p.
4416. Snchez, Carlos E. La imprenta en el Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1935. 214 p.
A history of the press in Ecuador from 1750 through 1934.
4417. Silva, Amrico. Apuntes sobre el periodismo en el Ecuador, El Ecuador en cien
aos de independencia (item 1927), vol. 1, p. 329-344.
Reprinted in: Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 274288.
4418. Spindler, Frank MacDonald. Lamennais and Montalvo: A European Influence Upon
Latin American Political Thought, Journal of the History of Ideas, 37:1 (Jan. 1976), 137-146.
4419. Spindler, Frank MacDonald. The Political Thought of Juan Montalvo. 1966. 2 v.
(747 leaves). Thesis (Ph.D.)--American University.
4420. Stols, Alexandre A.M. La imprenta de la Universidad Central: historia, objeto,
organizacin. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1953. 16 p.
4421. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La influencia de Balmes en el Ecuador, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 51:111 (ene./jun. 1968), 38-63.
4422. La Utopa en el Ecuador, estudio y seleccin de Arturo Andrs Roig. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador; Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1987. 468 p. (Biblioteca bsica del
pensamiento ecuatoriano; 26)
A study of utopianism in Ecuador and selections from the writings of Juan de Velasco,
Antonio de Ziga, Len Pinelo, Eugenio Espejo, Benigo Malo, Vicente Solano, and Rafael
Villamar among others.
4423. Valdano Morejn, Juan. Pensamiento social y poltico de Juan Montalvo en Las
Catilinarias, Cultura, 2:5 (sept./dic. 1979), 33-56.
4424. Velasco Ibarra, Jos Mara. Teoras polticas de Rocafuerte, BBN/E, 4/5 (ene./feb.
1921), 190-200.
4425. Vigencia de Juan Montalvo en la Cultura Ecuatoriana: documentos del Seminario
Nacional llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Ambato del 2 al 5 de marzo de 1988, Gustavo Alfredo
Jcome [et al.]. Quito: Fundacin Fredrich Naumann; Ambato: Municipio de Ambato, 1988.
475 p.
4426. Visin actual de Jos Peralta. Quito: Fundacin Friedrich Naumann, 1989. 667 p.
Publishes papers presented at the Seminario Nacional sobre Visin actual de Jos Peralta,
held July 12-15, 1988 in Cuenca, sponsored by the Fundacin Friedrich Naumann.
4427. Visin actual de Manuel J. Calle, [Mara Rosa Crespo de Pozo et al.]. Quito:
Fundacin Friedrich Naumann, 1988. 196 p.
Publishes papers presented at a seminar held Apr. 8, 1988 in Cuenca, sponsored by the
Fundacin Friedrich Naumann.
4428. Visin actual de Po Alvarado Jaramillo: documentos del seminario nacional, Loja, 13
al 16 de septiembre, 1988, [Elas Muoz Vicua et al.]. Loja: Subsecretara de Cultura,
Direccin Provincial de Educacin, Departamento de Cultura de Loja; Quito: Fundacin
Friedrich Naumann, 1989. 556 p.
4429. Ypez Arboleda, Federico. Juan Bautista de Aguirre, filsofo, Cultura, 2:4
(mayo/ago. 1979), 95-113.
The majority of language and linguistic studies on Ecuador, especially of the languages of the
ethnic groups of the Oriente, have been undertaken by the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
Previously difficult to obtain, almost all SIL publications--for a comprehensive listing of which
consult item 135--are now readily available. See also: Microfiche Catalog: Publications of the
Summer Institute of Linguistics (Dallas: Academic Publications Department, Summer Institute of
Linguistics, 1993), p. 94-97.
There are fourteen, possibly only thirteen, languages spoken nowadays in Ecuador, including
Ecuadorian sign language as well as Spanish. The indigenous languages of the coast are: Chachi
(spoken by the people formerly known as Cayapas), Coaiquer or Cuaiquer (spoken by the Awa),
and Tsachila (or Colorado). The only remaining indigenous language in the highlands is
Quichua. The following dialects have been identified: Imbabura Quichua, Caldern Quichua,
Tungurahua Quichua, Chimborazo Quichua, Caar Quichua, and Loja Quichua. The indigenous
languages spoken in the eastern lowlands are: Achuar, Cofn, Quichua, Secoya, Shuar, Siona,
Tetete (probably extinct by the 1980s--there were only three elderly speakers as of 1969),
Huaorani (spoken by the people formerly known as Aucas), and Zparo. Zparo as a language
may also be extinct; as of 1991, apparently only 24 speakers remained. The lowland versions of
Quichua are: Napo Quichua (spoken by the Quijos Quichua), Tena Quichua (spoken by
Yumbos), and Pastaza Quichua (spoken by Canelos Quichua).
From the point of view of the historian, at least two major issues remained to be addressed: 1)
the delineation of the replacement of indigenous languages of the highlands, still widespread as
of the Diocesan Synod of 1593, by Quichua; and 2) whether or not any texts in those languages
(i.e., Pasto, Quillasinga, Caranqui, Panzaleo, Puruhay, Caari, etc.), have survived. In regard to
the former, no satisfactory study existed as of 1999, and in regards to the latter, it should be noted
that the archival holdings of indigenous pueblos were and perhaps still are virtually unknown.
Also the reason that so few grammars and vocabularies or dictionaries of colonial period
Quichua exist may be because Ecuadorian Quichua might not have existed, at least not during the
first half of the colonial period.
Another colonial period grammar that might be worthwhile consulting is the 1700 and 1754,
but not earlier, editions of Diego de Torres Rubios Arte de la lengua quichua. The full citation
of the 1700 version is: Arte de la lengua quichua, por el P. Diego de Torres Rubio de la
Compaia de Iesus. ; Y nuevamente van aadidos los romances, el cathecismo pequeo, todas las
oraciones, los dias de fiesta, y ayunos de los indios, el vocabulario aadido, y otro vocabulario de
la lengua Chinchaisuyo. Por el M.R.P. Iuan de Figueredo professor de la misma Compaia,
maestro de dicha lengua en su Colegio del Cercado, ministro, interprete general de ella en el
Tribunal de la Santa Inquisicion. ; A costa de Francisco Farfan de los Godos, mercader de libros,
y se vende en su casa en la call de las Mantas. En Lima por Joseph de Contreras, y Alvarado,
impressor real, de el S. Oficio, de la Santa Cruzada, [1700?]. [13], 114, [1] leaves. And of the
1754 version: Arte, y vocabulario de la lengua quichua general de los indios de el Per. / Que
compuso el Padre Diego de Torres Rubio de la Compaia de Jesus. ; Y aadido el P. Juan de
Figueredo de la misma Compaia. ; Ahora nuevamente corregido, y aumentado en muchos
vocablos, y varias advertencias, notas, y observaciones, para la mejor inteligencia del ydioma, y
perfecta insrucion de los parochos, y cathequistas de indios. Por vn religioso de las misma
Compaia. Reimpreso en Lima, : En la Imprenta de la Plazuela de San Christoval., ao de 1754.
[6], 254, [2] leaves.
This is the first work known to include a section on the grammar and vocabulary of the dialect
employed by los indios del antiguo arzobispado de Lima according to Medina: the
Vocabulario de la lengua chinchaisuyo, y algunos modos mas vsados en dicha lengua by Father
Figueredo (leaves 53 verso-59 recto). What is stated in the 1754 edition of this revised and
augmented version of Torres Rubio is ... por las repetidas missiones con que h corrido todo el
Arzobispado de Lima, donde mas se usa la lengua Chinchaysuyo ... (leaves 213 verso-214 recto
[2nd count]). The question therefore is whether the dialect in question was that spoken in the
diocese proper of Lima or throughout the length and breath of the Chinchaysuyu. Prior to the
Spanish conquest, it will be recalled, the Chinchaysuyu included the highlands of what are now
Ecuador and southern Colombia.
4462. Encuentro Nacional de Lingistas (1: 1990: Ambato, Ecuador). Primer Encuentro
Nacional de Lingistas: Ambato, 20-21 de septiembre de 1990, direccin general, Jorge Jcome
C. Ambato: Casa de Montalvo, 1990. 236 p.
4463. Estudios acerca de las lenguas huarani (auca), shimigae y zapara. Quito: Tall. Grf.
de Educacin, 1959. 48 p.
Contents: Rachel Saint and Kenneth L. Pike, Notas sobre fonmica huarani; C. Peeke,
Shimigae, idioma que se extinge; M. Catherine Peeke and M. Sargent, Pronombres
personales en shimigae; M. Sargent, Vocabulario zaparo.
4464. Estudios fonolgicos de lenguas vernaculas del Ecuador. Quito: Ministerio de
Educacin Pblica con la colaboracin del Instituto Lingstico de Verano, 1975. xi, 112 p.
4465. Fauchois, Anne. El quichua serrano frente a la comunicacin moderna. Quito:
Proyecto EBI, Convenio MEC-GTZ; Abya-Yala, 1988. 141 p.
4466. Garca, Erica C. and Ricardo L. Otheguy. Being Polite in Ecuador: Strategy Reversal
under Language Contact, Lingua: International Review of General Linguistics, 61:2/3
(Oct./Nov. 1983), 103-132.
4467. Ghinassi, Juan. Gramtica terico-prctica y vocabulario de la lengua jbara. Quito:
Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1938. 137 p.
4468. Gnerre, Mauricio. The Decline of Dialogue: Ceremonial and Mythological Discourse
Among the Shuar and Achuar of Eastern Ecuador, Native South American Discourse, edited by
Joel Sherzer and Greg Urban (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1986), p. 307-341.
4469. Una Gramtica colonial del quichua del Ecuador, Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Senz
(ed.). Bonn: Bonner Amerikanische Studien; St. Andrews: Institute of Amerindian Studies,
University of St. Andrews, 1993. x, 175 p.
Transcribes and analyzes the anonymous, undated but apparently seventeenth-century,
according to Dedenbach-Salazar Senz, Arte de la lengua jeneral del Cusco llamada quichua,
the original (i.e., an eighteenth-century copy) of which is in the Archivo Nacional (Bogot). One
of the few early grammars of Ecuadorian Quichua. The author may have been a Jesuit.
Roswith Hartmann, however, dates this grammar to the early eighteenth century on the basis of
internal evidence: see Hartmanns Fuentes quechuas de la poca colonial con referencia al
Ecuador, Jahrbuch fr Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas, 34
(1997), 53-72.
4470. Grijalva, Carlos Emilio. Cuestiones previas al estudio filolgico-etnogrfico de las
Provincias de Imbabura y Carachi. Quito: Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1988. 300 p.
4471. Grijalva, Carlos Emilio. Nombres y pueblos de la antigua Provincia de Imbabura,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 2:3/4 (ene./abr. 1921), 33-70.
4472. Grijalva, Carlos Emilio. Toponimia de las Provincias del Carchi, Obando, Tqueres e
Imbabura para el estudio del idioma de los Pastos. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1947. 234 p.
4509. Orbe, J. Estuardo. Matices del lenguaje popular otavaleo, Revista del Ncleo de
Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:24 (jul. 1979), 266-273.
4510. Orr, Carolyn; and Betsy Wrisley. Vocabulario quichua del Oriente del Ecuador, 2 ed.
Quito: Instituto Lingstico de Verano, 1981. v, 163 p.
4511. Paris, Julio. Ensayo de la gramtica de la lengua quechua. Quito: Impr. del Clero,
1892. xiii, 106 p.
4512. Paris, Julio. Gramtica de la lengua quechua, nueva ed. rev. y aum. con los
vocabularios quechua-espaol y espaol-quechua, por padres de la Congregacin del Santsimo
Redentor. Cuenca: [s.n.], 1924. 96, 155 p.
4513. Paris, Julio. Gramtica de la lengua quichua: actualmente en uso entre los indgenas
del Ecuador, revisada y aumentada con los vocabularios quichua-espaol y espaol-quichua por
Jos Mara Lvesque y Gilberto Meja. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1961. 200 p.
Items 4511-4513 are important for the study of continuity and change in Quichua as spoken
by indigenous peoples of the highlands.
4514. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. Contribucin al estudio de las lenguas indgenas del
Ecuador, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 14:40/41 (jul./dic. 1936), 40-54;
15:42/45 (ene./jun. 1937), 9-41.
4515. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. El espaol y el kechua, Boletn de la Academia Nacional
de Historia, 41:96 (jul./dic. 1960), 151-157.
4516. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. Lenguas indgenas en el Ecuador, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 20:56 (jul./dic. 1940), 162-178; 21:57 (ene./jun. 1941), 28-52; 21:58
(jul./dic. 1941), 145-170; 22:59 (ene./jun. 1942), 42-73; 26:67 (ene./jun. 1946), 79-92; 43:97
(ene./jun. 1961), 162-176; 43:98 (jul./dic. 1961), 193-229.
A series of language by language studies (Pasto, Cara or Kara, Kito or Panzaleo, Puruguay or
Puruhuay, and Caari). See also item 1109.
4517. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. Lenguas indgenas en el Ecuador: diccionario toponmico,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 26:68 (jul./dic. 1946), 205-220; 27:69 (ene./jun.
1947), 65-80; 28:71 (ene./jun. 1948), 80-96; 28:72 (jul./dic. 1948), 226-240; 29:73 (ene./jun.
1949), 48-64; 29:74 (jul./dic. 1949), 215-232; 30:75 (ene./jun. 1950), 57-74; 30:76 (jul./dic.
1950), 172-189; 31:78 (jul./dic. 1951), 239-267; 32:79 (ene./jun. 1952), 102-121; 32:80 (jul./dic.
1952), 206-226.
Some parts appeared under the title: Diccionario toponmico.
4518. Peeke, M. Catherine. Preliminary Grammar of Auca. Norman: Summer Institute of
Linguistics, 1973. viii, 135 p.
4519. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Diccionario castellano-shuar. Quito: Movimiento Laicos para
Amrica Latina: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1989-. <1> v.
See also the same authors: Chicham nekatai apach chicham-shuar chicham = Diccionario
comprensivo castellano-shuar. Suca: Sistema de Educacin Radiofnica Bicultural Shuar,
1988. xxi, 714 p.
4520. Prez T., Aquiles R. El idioma cuayker. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1980.
23 p.
4521. Pesantes, Armando. La torre de Babel. Quito: A. Pesantes Garca, 1984. 386 p.
An idiomatic dictionary of Ecuadorian Spanish.
4522. El Quichua de Imbabura: una gramtica pedaggica, Louisa R. Stark [et al.].
Otavalo: Instituto Inter-Andino de Desarrollo, 1973. vi, 290 p.
4523. Quintero, Mara Eugenia; and Mara Mercedes Cotacachi. Quiquinllatac quichua
shimita yachacupai = Aprenda usted mismo el quichua. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1986. 7 v.
4524. Ramos, Juan J. Apuntes para una gramtica quichua, Unin literaria (Cuenca), 1:2
(mayo 1893), 64-72; 1:5 (ago. 1983), 196-202.
4525. Reino Garcs, Pedro Arturo. Apuntes sobre el nivel fnico en el espaol ecuatoriano:
consideraciones sobre los niveles lingsticos en las variantes dialcticas, Verba hispnica, 1
(1991), 89-96.
4526. Reino Garcs, Pedro Arturo. Clasificaciones de las lenguas indgenas en el Ecuador
precolombino. Ambato: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Tungurahua, 1992. 58 p.
4527. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. Lxico sexual ecuatoriano y latinoamericano. Quito:
Ediciones Libri Mundi; Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1979. 399 p.
4528. Salazar, Francisco Javier. La pronunciacin del castellano en el Ecuador, Revista
ecuatoriana, 1:6 (jun. 1889), 209-216.
4529. Stark, Louisa R. Ecuadorian Highland Quechua: History and Current Status, South
American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect, edited by Harriet E. Manelis Klein and
Louisa R. Stark (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985), p. 443-480.
This and the following item are exceptionally useful digests of the state of knowledge
regarding the history and recent past of indigenous languages in Ecuador. They also include
detailed statements as to the numbers and geographic distribution of native speakers as of the
early 1980s. Written in eminently intelligible prose.
4530. Stark, Louisa R. Indigenous Languages of Lowland Ecuador: History and Current
Status, South American Indian Languages: Retrospect and Prospect, edited by Harriet E.
Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985), p. 157-193.
Also published in Spanish as: Las lenguas indgenas de las tierras bajas de Ecuador: historia
y condiciones actuales, Amrica indgena, 43:4 (oct./dic. 1983), 797-821.
4531. Stark, Louisa R. La lengua zpara del Ecuador, Miscelnea antropolgica
ecuatoriana, 1:1 (1981), 12-91.
4532. Stark, Louisa R.; and Pieter C. Muysken. Diccionario espaol-quichua, quichuaespaol, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas; Museos del Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1977. 366 p.
An exceptionally well researched and epistemologically sound dictionary of Quichua. As of
July 1997, equaled in importance only by Corderos Diccionario quichua-espaol (item 4441).
Compiled from fourteen dialects of Quichua spoken in Ecuador.
4533. Studies in Ecuadorian Indian languages, edited by Benjamin F. Elson, 1st ed. Norman:
Summer Institute of Linguistics of the University of Oklahoma, 1962. xii, 292 p.
A de facto survey of indigenous languages of the coast, the highlands, and the Oriente.
4534. Tobar Donoso, Julio. El lenguaje rural en la regin interandina del Ecuador: lo que
falta y lo que sobra. Quito: Edit. La Unin Catlica, 1961. 296 p.
4535. Torres Fernndez de Crdoba, Glauco. Diccionario kichua-castellano, yurakshimirunashimi. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1982-. <1 v.>
An etymological dictionary. It is possible that only v. 1 (347 p.) appeared.
4536. Toscano, Humberto. El espaol en el Ecuador. Madrid: Consejo Superior de
Investigaciones Cientficas, 1953. 478 p. (Revista de filologa espaola; anejo lxi)
The benchmark study (i.e., the first scientific treatment and as of July 1997, still the most
comprehensive treatise) of Ecuadorian Spanish.
4537. Vzquez, Honorato. El idioma castellano en el Ecuador. Quito: Impr. y
Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1925. 33 p.
Reprinted in: Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 225242.
4538. Velasco, Juan de. Vocabulario de la lengua indica, introduccin, Oswaldo Romero
Arteta; versin paleogrfica, notas y comentarios de Piedad Peaherrera de Costales y Alfredo
Costales Samaniego. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y Geografa; Biblioteca
Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Plit, 1964. xxxv, 84 p. (Llacta; no. 20)
An eighteenth-century Spanish Quichua vocabulary (p. 1-55). Velascos so-called
Vocabulario B, consisting of 1,450 entries. His Vocabulario A remains unknown except for
its preface and table of contents. Also republishes the rare Lima, 1753: Breve instruccin, o Arte
para entender la lengua comn de los indios segn se habla en la Provincia de Quito (p. 57-84),
attributed by Romero Arteta and others to the payans Jesuit Toms Nieto Polo del Aguila
(1695-1777) (see item 4438).
4539. Vittadello, Alberto. Chapalaachi = El idioma cayapa. Esmeraldas: Pontificia
Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Sede de Esmeraldas; Guayaquil: Museos del Banco Central
del Ecuador, 1988. 2 v.
4540. Vries, Lucie de. Poltica lingstica en Ecuador, Per y Bolivia. Quito: Proyecto EBI:
CEDIME, 1988. 150 p.
4541. Workpapers Concerning Waorani Discourse Features, Evelyn G. Pike and Rachel
Saint, eds. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1988. xx, 168 p.
4542. Ynez Cosso, Consuelo. akanchik llatapak shimi. Quito: Pontificia Universidad
Catlica del Ecuador, Instituto de Lenguas y Lingstica, 1975-1976. 3 v.
A basic textbook.
Contents: 1. Libro del estudiante; 2. Libro del maestro; 3. Mtodo audio-visual de quichua.
LITERATURE
The history of literature has been well cultivated in Ecuador, beginning with Pablo Herrera,
Juan Len Mera, and Pedro Moncayo. Herrera (see items 4652 and 4646), Mera (items 4662 and
4868), and Moncayo (item 4663) were literary critics and historians as well as political
commentators and historians. The multifaceted Herrera was also the founder of the Academia
Nacional Cientfica y Literaria, forerunner of the Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua. Yet there
are only a few general, modern surveys, notwithstanding the plethora of specialized studies. The
most comprehensive, as of July 1997, was still Isaac J. Barreras fundamental as well as classic
Historia de la literatura ecuatoriana (item 4572). Also important is Angel F. Rojass also
classic, albeit considerably dated, 1948 La novela ecuatoriana (item 4700).
Although Meras 1868 Ojeada histrico-crtica sobre la poesa ecuatoriana (item 4662) is
generally considered to be the pioneering history and criticism of Ecuadorian poetry, interestingly
enough the guayaquileo Vicente Emilio Molestina (1846-1875) had already published Lira
ecuatoriana: coleccin de poesas lricas nacionales, escojidas i ordenadas con apuntamientos
biogrficos (Guayaquil: Impr. y Encuad. de Calvo i C, 1866) in ix, 340 p. And in the same year
that the first edition of Meras Ojeada histrico-crtica appeared, Molestina published in exile,
whether voluntary or forced, Literatura ecuatoriana: coleccin de antigedades literarias,
fbulas, epigramas, stiras y cuadros descriptivos de costumbres nacionales, escogidas y
ordenadas con apuntamientos biogrficos (Lima: Tip. y Encuad. de A. Alfaro y C, 1868) in 163
p. For whatever reasons, Molestinas works are not nearly as well known as Meras.
In addition to the works cited below, see the results of the Encuentros de Literatura
Ecuatoriana, of which there have been at least five, also held in Cuenca. The first two were
published in two special issues of Cultura (vol. 2, no. 6 [ene./abr. 1980] and vol. 4, no. 15
[ene./abr. 1983]). The results of the fifth appeared as a separate: Memorias del V Encuentro de
Literatura Ecuatoriana, Cuenca, Ecuador, 22 al 26 de noviembre de 1993, apparently edited by
Alfonso Carrasco Vintimilla (Cuenca: Facultad de Filosofa, Letras y Ciencias de la Educacin,
Universidad de Cuenca, 1995) in 466 p. I do not know if the results of the third and fourth
Encuentros were published, but there is an interesting anthology La literatura ecuatoriana de las
dos ltimas dcadas, 1970-1990, apparently edited by Diego Araujo Snchez, that consists of
papers originally presented at a series of conferences held in Ecuador from 1978-1990 organized
by the Facultad de Filosofa, Letras y Ciencias de la Educacin of the Universidad de Cuenca
(Cuenca: Facultad de Filosofa de la Universidad de Cuenca; Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
Ncleo del Azuay, 1993) in 528 p.
4543. Adoum, Jorge Enrique. Las clases sociales en las letras contemporneas de Ecuador,
Panorama del actual literatura latinoamericana (Habana: Casa de las Amricas, 1969), p. 154166.
An essay on the social context of Ecuadorian literature of the mid- twentieth century.
4544. Adoum, Jorge Enrique. La gran literatura ecuatoriana del 30. Quito: Edit. El Conejo,
1984. 104 p.
On the generation of the 1930s, especially the Grupo de Guayaquil.
4545. Adoum, Jorge Enrique. Huasipungo: el indio, persona o personaje?, Casa de las
Amricas, 22:127 (jul./ago. 1981), 22-29.
4546. Adoum, Jorge Enrique. Jorge Enrique Adoum: entrevista en dos tiempos, 1 ed.
Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1988. 93 p.
4547. Agramonte y Pichardo, Roberto. Montalvo y la literatura francesa, Cultura, 5:12
(ene./mar. 1982), 297-333.
4548. Aguirre T., Fausto R. La lrica lojana: generacin potica de 1954. Loja:
Universidad Nacional de Loja, 1987. 2 v.
4549. Aguirre T., Fausto R. Palabras y papeles. Loja: Edit. Universitaria, 1987. lv, 201 p.
A survey of national literature of the twentieth century. Especially concerned with the use of
language.
4550. Albn Gmez, Ernesto. La literatura ecuatoriana en el siglo XIX, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 8, p. 79-114.
A less than satisfactory survey. Gives disproportionate coverage to Montalvo.
4551. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Algo sobre el movimiento literario nacional en la primera
centuria de independencia: 24 de mayo de 1922. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1922.
38 p.
4552. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Literatos ecuatorianos: figuras culminantes ... Cuenca:
V.M. Albornoz, 1934. 128 p.
The great man approach. Focuses on Luis Cordero, Federico Proao, Miguel Moreno,
Honorato Vasquez, Rafael M. Arzaga, and Manuel J. Calle.
4553. Albuja Galindo, Alfredo. Imbabura en la novela y el relato nacionales, Revista de la
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Imbabura, 33:32 (mayo 1986), 141-161.
4554. Alemn, Hugo. Presencia del pasado: 29 semblanzas y 1 paisaje. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1949. 2 v.
Consists of twenty-nine biographical sketches of literary contemporaries of the author, mostly
poets.
4555. Allison, Wayne L. A Thematic Analysis of the Contemporary Ecuadorian Novel.
1967. 230 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University.
4556. Amar, Marisol. La funcin del silencio en Arcilla indcil de Arturo Montesinos
Malo, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 191-196.
Arcilla indcil is a collection of short stories.
4557. Andrade Coello, Alejandro. El Ecuador intelectual: ndice del movimiento literario
reciente. Crdoba, Argentina: B. Cubas, 1919. 27 p.
4558. Andrade y Cordero, Csar. Ruta de la poesa ecuatoriana contempornea:
(contribucin para una crtica selectiva). Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del
Azuay, 1951. 128 p.
Also published in: Revista, Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 3:4 (ago.
1951), 11-100.
4559. Antologa de la literatura femenina: 12 escritoras ecuatorianas. Quito: Comit
Ecuatoriano de Cooperacin con la Comisin Interamericana de Mujeres, 1988. 107 p.
4560. Antologa de la oratoria cuencana, seleccin e introduccin, Jos Cuesta Heredia.
Cuenca: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1989. lxii, 509 p.
4561. Antologa de la poesa cuencana , Antonio Lloret Bastidas [compilador]. Cuenca:
Consejo Provincial del Azuay, Departamento de Cultura, 1980-1984. 4 v.
4562. Antologa de prosistas ecuatorianos, [prlogo y recopilacin de Pablo Herrera].
Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1895-1896. 2 v.
4563. Antologa general de la poesa ecuatoriana durante la colonia espaola, recopilacin
de Alejandro Carrin. Quito: Divisin de Cultura e Informacin, Banco de los Andes, 1992. 362
p.
A useful anthology of 42 poets of the colonial period. Includes biographical notes. See also
item 4583.
4564. Araujo Snchez, Diego. Panorama de la novela ecuatoriana de los ltimos aos,
Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 17-25.
4565. Araujo Snchez, Diego. Panorama del teatro ecuatoriano, Cultura, 2:5 (sept./dic.
1979), 94-109.
4566. Arias, Augusto. Panorama de la literatura ecuatoriana, 5 ed. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1961. 384 p.
A standard text for many years. Now considered to be a classic. Originally published: Quito:
Impr. Nacional, 1936. 144 p.
4567. Arias Michelena, Rafael. La poesa de Euler Granda: una expresin dramtica de
nuestro mundo degradado, Cultura, 2:4 (mayo/ago. 1979), 151-175.
4568. Arias Michelena, Rafael. Texto literario y contexto ideolgico y su interrelacin en el
primer modernismo ecuatoriano, Cultura, 4:9 (ene./abr. 1981), 149-195.
4569. Arzaga, Reginaldo Mara. Valores ecuatorianos: escritores y poetas. Quito:
Litografa e Impr. Romero, 1942. xi, 346 p.
Diego Viga is the nom de plume of Paul Engel, a native Austrian, a Jew, and a physician who
has lived in South America, mostly in Colombia and Ecuador since 1938, and who has published
several novels on Ecuador, in Spanish as well as in German.
4579. Bravo, Eliane Hubard de. Roman et socit en Equateur (1930-1949). Cuernavaca,
Mxico: Centro Intercultural de Documentacin, 1970. 1 v. in various paginations.
A solid study of the ideological goals and textually achieved results of the Generation of
1930.
4580. Caldern Chico, Carlos. Pedro Jorge Vera se confiesa: poltica y literatura. Quito:
Fondo Edit. de la UNP, 1985. 123 p.
Includes a lengthy dialogue with Vera.
4581. Carrasco Vintimilla, Alfonso. El ensayo y la crtica literaria ecuatoriana en la
segunda mitad del siglo XX, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 401-417.
4582. Carrin, Alejandro. Galera de retratos: estudio sobre literatura ecuatoriana. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1983. 182 p.
4583. Carrin, Alejandro. Los poetas quiteos de El ocioso en Faenza. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1957-1958. 2 v.
A Historia y crtica (vol. 1) of the eighteenth century Jesuits in exile, and a compilation of
their Textos poticos (vol. 2). Reprinted: Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de
Investigacin y Cultura, 1988. 266 p. (Obras completas de ... ; vol. 10). See also item 4563.
4584. Carrin, Benjamn. Indice de la poesa ecuatoriana contempornea. Santiago de
Chile: Ediciones Ercilla, 1937. xxx, 169 p.
Includes biobibliographical sketches of the poets indexed.
4585. Carrin, Benjamn. El libro de los prlogos. Quito: Imgenes y Sonido, 1979. vi, 339
p.
An anthology of the authors prologues to the works of others.
4586. Carrin, Benjamn. El nuevo relato ecuatoriano: crtica y antologa, 2 ed. rev.
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1959. 1124 p.
4587. Carrin, Carlos. El cuento ecuatoriano contemporneo: visin tcnico formaltemtica, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 151-166.
4588. Carrin de Fierro, Fany. Jos de la Cuadra, el realismo mgico y la cultura
hispanoamericana, Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 38 (dic. 1986), 139-162.
4589. Cordero de Espinosa, Susana. Panorama de los estudios crticos sobre la obra de don
Juan Montalvo, Cultura, 5:12 (ene./abr. 1982), 15-93.
4590. Crdova, Jos Hernn. Itinerario potico de Jorge Carrera Andrade. Quito: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1986. 204 p.
4591. Corral, Will H. Ecuador, Handbook of Latin American Literature, edited by David
William Foster, 2d ed. (New York: Garland Publishing, 1992), p. 287-316.
An informed as well as informative overview. Intended primarily for English readers, yet the
accompanying bibliography lists works only in Spanish.
4592. Corrales Pascual, Manuel. Cumand, 1879-1979: contribucin a un centenario.
Quito: Ediciones Universidad Catlica, 1979. 283 p.
4593. Corrales Pascual, Manuel. Jorge Icaza: frontera del relato indigenista. Quito: Centro
de Publicaciones de la Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1974. 274 p.
A study of Icazas novels: Huasipungo (1934), En las calles (1935), Cholos (1937),
Huairapamuschas (1948), and El chulla Romero y Flores (1958).
4594. Corrales Pascual, Manuel. Nuestra narrativa en el contexto latinoamericano,
Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 38-44.
4595. Corrales Pascual, Manuel. Situacin del relato ecuatoriano: cincuenta opiniones y
una discusin. Quito: Pontificia Universidad Catlica, 1977. 2 v.
4596. Crespo de Pozo, Mara Rosa. Una clave para la interpretacin de Boletn y elega de
las mitas, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 335-349.
An essay on one of the poems of Csar Dvila Andrade.
4597. Crespo Toral, Remigio. Las letras en el Ecuador, Resumen histrico del Ecuador,
1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 245-252.
4598. Cueva, Agustn. Lecturas y rupturas: diez ensayos sociolgicos sobre la literatura del
Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Planeta, 1986. 209 p.
Reprints item 4600 among other essays. Although worth reading, this set suffers from
excessively rigid application of historical materialism to periodization and analysis of national
literature. His characterization of the so-called generation of 1930, for example, as petty
bourgeois in origin is simply not true. Apparently the majority were from upper middle class and
even upper class families.
4599. Cueva, Agustn. La literatura ecuatoriana. Buenos Aires: Centro Editor de Amrica
Latina, 1968. 64 p.
Notwithstanding the authors Marxist orientation, considered to be one of the better
introductions to Ecuadorian literature.
4600. Cueva, Agustn. Literatura y sociedad en el Ecuador, 1920-1960, Revista
iberoamericana, 54:144/145 (July/Dec. 1988), 629-647.
4601. Cueva, Agustn. El mtodo materialista histrico aplicado a la periodizacin de la
historia de la literatura ecuatoriana: algunas consideraciones tericas, Casa de las Amricas,
22:127 (jul./ago. 1981), 31-48.
Gonzalo Zaldumbide. Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1959. 599 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana
mnima; [6])
Also includes selections from the poetry of Jacinto de Evia.
4616. Dulsey, Bernard. La narrativa ecuatoriana del decenio 1960-1970, Nueva narrativa
latinoamericana, 2:1 (ene. 1972), 169-177.
4617. Egez, Ivn. Algunos problemas de la novela histrica, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr.
1979), 453-465.
4618. Encalada Vzquez, Oswaldo. Panorama de la poesa ecuatoriana, Cultura, 2:3
(ene./abr. 1979), 263-272.
4619. Espinosa Plit, Aurelio. Los clsicos y la literatura ecuatoriana, 2 ed. Quito: Edit.
Ecuatoriana, 1938. 52 p.
4620. Espinosa Plit, Aurelio. Temas ecuatorianos. Quito: Edit. Clsica, 1954. 362 p.
4621. Espinoza, Herberto. Lucha de clases y determinismo histrico en la narrativa
ecuatoriana. 1985. xii, 176 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, San Diego.
4622. Fabr-Maldonado, Niza. Americanismos, indigenismos, neologismos y creacin
literaria en la obra de Jorge Icaza, 1 ed. Quito: Abrapalabra Editores, 1993. 319 p.
4623. Fernndez, Mara del Carmen. El realismo abierto de Pablo Palacio en la encrucijada
de los 30, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Libri Mundi Enrique Grosse-Luemern, 1991. 489 p.
4624. Flores, Carlos Alberto. Laureles. Guayaquil: Impr. La Reforma, 1916. 58 p.
An appreciation of Jos Joaqun de Olmedo, Numa P. Llona, Francisco Campos, and Nicols
Augusto Gonzlez, and of their works.
4625. Flores Jaramillo, Renn. Jorge Icaza: una visin profunda y universal del Ecuador.
Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1979. 89 p.
4626. Gallegos Naranjo, Manuel. Parnaso ecuatoriano: con apuntamientos biogrficos de
los poetas y versificadores de la Repblica del Ecuador, desde el siglo XVIII hasta el ao de
1879. Quito: Impr. de Manuel V. Flor, 1879. 585 p.
One of the earliest compendia of Ecuadorian poets, with appreciations of their poetry and
sketches of their lives and careers.
4627. Gallo Almeida, Luis. Literatos ecuatorianos. Quito: Tip. de la Prensa Catlica,
1921. 249 p.
A standard secondary level text in the 1920 and 1930s. Covers intelligentsia in general (i.e.,
historians, journalists, and orators as well as literati). Also appeared in a second and third
editions: Riobamba: Tip. La Buena Prensa del Chimborazo, 1927 (326 p); Quito: Tall. Grf.
del Colegio Militar, 1938 (338 p.).
4628. Gama e Silva, Vicente. Hacia una sociologa de la literatura: acercamiento a la
novela Pequeas estaturas, de Alfredo Pareja Diezcanseco, Cultura, 4:11 (sept./dic. 1981), 6191.
4629. Garca, Juan. La poesa negra en el Ecuador. Esmeraldas: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1982. 151 p.
4630. Garca-Barrio, Constance. Blacks in Ecuadorian Literature, Cultural
Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 535-562.
An anthropological study of cultural themes in black literature and literature on blacks.
More specifically examines the depiction of the history, folklore, daily life and customs, racial
mixture, and racial identity of blacks on the coast, especially in the Province of Esmeraldas.
Also touches upon conflicts of culture.
4631. Gerdes, Dick. An Embattled Society: Orality Versus Writing in Alicia Yez
Cossos La cofrada del mullo del vestido de la virgen pipona, Latin American Literary
Review, 18:2 (July/Dec. 1990), 50-58.
4632. Graetzer Alvarez, Margarita. El cuento en el Ecuador: panorama de su desarrollo,
Dactylus, 5 (Spring 1986), 36-38.
4633. Graetzer Alvarez, Margarita. Los cuentos de Csar Dvila Andrade: desde la tristeza
milenaria hacia la iluminacin, Cultura, 8:22 (mayo/ago. 1985), 33-71.
4634. Guerra Cceres, Alejandro. Semana grfica: historia de una revista notable, Crnica
del ro, 4/5 (sept. 1993), 51-58.
4635. Handelsman, Michael H. Amazons and Artists: a Study of Ecuadorian Womens
Prose. 1976. viii, 208 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 1976.
Published in Spanish as: Amazonas y artistas: un estudio de la prosa de la mujer ecuatoriana.
Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1978. 2 v. See also the
anthology edited by Handelsman, Diez escritoras ecuatorianas y sus cuentos. Guayaquil: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1982. 171 p.
4636. Handelsman, Michael H. Bruna, soroche y los tos: an Ecuadorian Woman Writers
Contribution to Contemporary Femenist Fiction, Revista de estudios hispnicos, 15:1 (ene.
1981), 35-42.
An appreciation of the novel and its author, Alicia Yez Cosso (1929-).
4637. Handelsman, Michael H. El cuento femenino en Ecuador, Cuadernos del Guayas,
46 (jun. 1978), 28-46.
4638. Handelsman, Michael H. Del tzantzismo al desencanto: un recorrido de treinta aos
en la crtica literaria del Ecuador, Revista de crtica literaria latinoamericana, 16:31/32 (1990),
139-152.
A superb review of recent literary criticism in Ecuador.
4639. Handelsman, Michael H. En torno al verdadero Benjamn Carrin. Quito: Edit. El
Conejo, 1989. 133 p.
A solid, objective evaluation of the personality and work of Carrin.
4640. Handelsman, Michael H. La poca modernista del Ecuador a travs de sus revistas
literarias publicadas entre 1895 y 1930, Hispania, 66:1 (Mar. 1983), 40-47.
Handelsman is an authority on modernism. See also items 93 and 4641.
4641. Handelsman, Michael H. Un estudio de la poca modernista del Ecuador a travs de
sus revistas literarias publicadas entre 1895 y 1930, Cultura, 4:9 (ene./abr. 1981), 196-212.
Reprinted in item 93.
4642. Handelsman, Michael H. Incursiones en el mundo literario del Ecuador. Guayaquil:
Edit. Universidad de Guayaquil, 1988. 185 p.
Essays on the literature and literary developments of the twentieth century.
4643. Handelsman, Michael H. La revolucin cubana desde el Ecuador: Benjamn Carrin
y la segunda independencia de Amrica, SECOLAS Annals: Journal of the Southeastern
Council on Latin American Studies, 22 (Mar. 1991), 62-67.
4644. Handelsman, Michael H. Ubicando la literaura afroecuatoriana en el contexto
nacional: ilusin o realidad?, Afro-Hispanic Review, 12:1 (Spring 1993), 42-47.
4645. Harritos, Mary J. Las novelas de Pedro Jorge Vera. Quito: Universidad Central del
Ecuador, 1989. 133 p.
4646. Heise, Karl H. El grupo de Guayaquil: arte y tcnica de sus novelas sociales. Madrid:
Playor, 1975. 154 p.
4647. Herrera, Pablo. Ensayo sobre la historia de la literatura ecuatoriana. Quito: Impr.
del Gobierno, 1860. 149 p.
Herrera inaugurated literary history and criticism in Ecuador. Reprinted several times,
including in: Boletn de la Biblioteca Nacional, nueva ser., 2:8 (ene./feb. 1927), 37-65; 2:9
(mar./abr. 1927), 73-124.
4648. Hidalgo de Velasco, Laura. Acercamiento a Entre Marx y una mujer desnuda,
Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 66-82.
4649. Hidrovo Peaherrera, Horacio. Historia de la literatura manabita y su identidad
regional. Portoviejo: Edit. Gregorio, 1979. 154 p.
4650. Iglesias Mata, Dumar. Testimonio cultural de Manab. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1984. 492 p.
4651. Indice de la narrative ecuatoriana, editores Gladys Jaramillo Buenda, Raul Prez
Torres, Simn Zavala Guzmn, 1 ed. Quito: Editora Nacional, 1992. 752.
A guide to fiction writers who published between 1960 and 1988 and their work. A useful
reference work. Organized alphabetically but not indexed. Each entry consists of a brief
biobibliography and of a summary and evaluation of a representative work of the author.
4652. Iturburu Rivadeneira, Fernando. Palabra invadida: comentarios de literatura
ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: FEDESO, 1988. 98 p.
4662. Mera, Juan Len. Ojeada histrico-crtica sobre la poesa ecuatoriana: desde su
poca ms remota hasta nuestros das, 2 ed. Barcelona: Impr. y Litogr. de Jos Cunil Sala,
1893. x, 633, ii p.
Original ed.: Quito: Impr. de J.P. Sanz, 1868. The second edition includes several additional
appendices: Carta al Sr. D. Manuel Caete sobre D. Jos Joaquin de Olmedo (p. 455-493);
Breve estudio sobre las cartas inditas de Olmedo (p. 494-505), Cartas al seor don Juan
Valera (p. 506-588); Carta al seor don Antonio Rubo y Lluch, en contestacin la suya sobre
el americanismo en la poesa (p. 589-612); and Carta sobre otras cartas al Excmo. Sr. Dr. D.
Antonio Flores (p. 613-633).
4663. Moncayo, Pedro. Ensayo sobre la Historia de la literatura ecuatoriana, por Pablo
Herrera, Museo Histrico, 17:51 (abr./jun. 1971), 1-65.
Reprint; originally published: Santiago de Chile: Impr. y Librera del Mercurio de Santos
Tornero, 1861.
4664. Montalvo B., Yolanda. La supersticin en la narrativa de Estupin Bass, Cultura,
2:4 (mayo/ago. 1979), 177-196.
4665. Monteforte Toledo, Mario. La narrativa ecuatoriana 1930-1940: limitado aporte a un
estudio necesario, Casa de las Amricas, 21:126 (mayo/jun. 1981), 27-38.
4666. Montesinos, Jaime. Las fugas y los encuentros en la poesa de Csar Dvila
Andrade, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 314-334.
4667. Narradores ecuatorianos del 30: J. Gallegos Lara, E. Gil Gilbert, A. Aquilera Malta,
Pablo Palacio, Jorge Icaza, A. Pareja Diezcanseco, seleccin y cronologa: Pedro Jorge Vera.
Caracas: Biblioteca Ayacucho, 1980. lxi, 702 p.
4668. Nuez Snchez, Sergio. El Ecuador en su literatura, Resumen histrico del Ecuador,
1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 253-264.
4669. Orro, Margarita B. Presencia del neoindigenismo en el Ecuador: Por qu se fueron
las garzas? de Gustavo Alfredo Jcome, Cultura, 5:14 (set./dic. 1982), 149-159.
4670. Palabra viviente: libro del Taller de Literatura Esperpentos del Departamento de
Difusin Cultural del Banco Central en Cuenca, [Jorge Arzaga A. and others]. Cuenca: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1989. 171 p.
4671. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. El mayor de los cinco, Cahiers de monde hispanique
et luso-brsilien (Caravelle), 34 (1980), 117-139.
An appreciation of Jos de la Cuadra.
4672. Pareja Diezcanseco, Alfredo. El reino de la libertad en Pablo Palacio, Casa de las
Amricas, 22:127 (jul./ago. 1981), 3-20.
4673. Pazos Barrera, Julio. La poesa ecuatoriana en el contexto de la poesa
latinoamericana despus de 1950, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 290-313.
4674. Prez, Galo Ren. Pensamiento y literatura del Ecuador: crtica y antologa. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1972. 519 p.
inasmuch as Rojas devotes approximately half of this survey of the years 1830-1945 to political,
economic, and social developments and events.
4701. Ruffinelli, Jorge. Pablo Palacio: literatura, locura y sociedad, Revista de crtica
literaria latinoamericana, 5:10 (1979), 47-60.
4702. Rumazo Gonzlez, Alfonso. Estudio de la literatura ecuatoriana 1900-1980, El
Ecuador en el siglo XX (item 2255), p. 211-257.
Tends to be excessively adulatory.
4703. Sackett, Theodore Alan. Metaliteratura e intertextualidad en el ltima ficcin de
Jorge Icaza, Revista iberoamericana, 54:144/145 (July/Dec. 1988), 753-762.
4704. Sacoto, Antonio. 14 novelas claves de la litertura ecuatoriana, 3 ed. Cuenca:
Universidad de Cuenca, 1992. 432 p.
4705. Sacoto, Antonio. 20 aos de novela ecuatoriana (1970-1990). Cuenca: Universidad
de Cuenca, 1992. 93 p.
4706. Sacoto, Antonio. El bandolero o revolucionario en la nueva novela ecuatoriana de
denuncia, Cuadernos americanos, 235:2 (mar./abr. 1981), 195-208.
4707. Sacoto, Antonio. El ensayo ecuatoriano. Cuenca: Universidad del Azuay, 1992. vii,
252 p.
Examines the essays of the eighteenth-century Eugenio Espejo, the nineteenth-century
Vicente Solano, Juan Len Mera, and Juan Montalvo, the twentieth-century Manuel J. Calle,
Remigio Crespo Toral, and others.
4708. Sacoto, Antonio. The Indian in the Ecuadorian Novel. New York: Las Americas,
1967. 271 p.
A somewhat rambling discourse on Meras Cumand and Icazas Huasipungo. The authors
doctoral dissertation (Columbia University).
4709. Sacoto, Antonio. Juan Montalvo, el escritor y el estilista. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1987. 329 p.
Reprint, originally published: Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1973.
4710. Sacoto, Antonio. La novela ecuatoriana en el contexto de la latinoamericana,
Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 45-65.
4711. Sacoto, Antonio. La nueva novela ecuatoriana. Cuenca: Departamento de Difusin
Cultural, Universidad de Cuenca, 1981. 252 p.
A comprehensive study of the new novel. Strong on plot analysis. Reprinted: Quito: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1987.
4712. Sacoto, Antonio. Siete lunas y siete serpientes, Cultura, 5:13 (mayo/ago. 1982), 4555.
4728. Ujukam, Yolanda; Fanny Antun; and Alicia Awanach. Mujer y poesa en el pueblo
shuar. , 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Bomboiza: Instituto Normal Bilinge Intercultural
Shuar, 1991. 208 p.
4729. Uzctegui, Emilio. Novelas y novelistas en el Ecuador, Revista, Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 6 (mayo/jul. 1965), 16-27.
4730. Valdano Morejn, Juan. Juan Montalvo. Quito: Edit. Indoamrica, [1983?]. 125 p.
4731. Valdano Morejn, Juan. Lxico y smbolo de Juan Montalvo: ensayo de interpretacin
lexicolgica y semiolgica de Las Catalinarias. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa,
1981. 236 p. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 42)
4732. Valdano Morejn, Juan. Panorama del cuento ecuatoriano: etapas, tendencias,
estructuras y procedimientos, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr. 1979), 115-150.
4733. Valverde, Mara E. El elemento mtico en la narrativa de Demetrio Aguilera Malta,
Cultura, 5:13 (mayo/ago. 1982), 35-44.
4734. Varas, Patricia Eugenia. La nueva narrativa y la cultura nacional-popular en el
Ecuador: tres narradores representativos. 1990. 263 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of
Toronto.
Examines the works of the urban novelists Ivn Egez, Ral Prez Torres, and Jorge
Velasco Mackenzie.
Published in Spanish as: Narrativa y cultura nacional. Quito: Abrapalabra Editores, 1993.
221 p.
4735. Vsconez, Francisco. Historia de la literatura ecuatoriana. Quito: Tip. y Encuad. de
Prensa Catlica, 1919. 285, 195 p.
4736. Vsconez, Francisco. Olmedo y sus obras: estudio histrico-crtico. Guayaquil:
Librera e Impr. Gutenberg de Elicio A. Uzctegui, 1920. 275 p.
4737. Velasco Mackenzie, Jorge; and Fernando Balseca Franco. Cuento y sociedad:
relaciones con la situacin histrica, poltica, econmica e ideolgica, Cultura, 2:3 (ene./abr.
1979), 184-190.
4738. Vetrano, Anthony Joseph. The Ecuadorian Indian and Cholo in the Novels of Jorge
Icaza. 1966. 290 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Syracuse University.
4739. Vieira V., Len. 12 escritores ecuatorianos contemporneos y una glosa. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1976. 361 p.
4740. Waag, C. Michael. Absurdity, Hyperbole and the Grotesque in Demetrio Aguilera
Maltas Last Novel Requiem para el diablo 1978, Secolas Annals, 20 (1989), 56-62.
4741. Waag, C. Michael. Political Satire through Popular Music and a Popular Vision of
Reality: La Linares, a New Novel from Ecuador, Perspectives on Contemporary Literature, 13
(1987), 50-57.
FOLKLORE
4746. Alfarera de Pujil: (contribucin), Elvia de Tejada [et al.], Revista del folklore
ecuatoriano, 2 (nov. 1966), 101-118.
4747. Agro, Roberto J. La pasada del huagra: el ritual para la fertilidad entre los indios
caaris del Azuay y otros elementos afines a este, Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 5
(dic. 1973), 191-202.
Also published in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 5 (dic. 1974), 89-100.
4748. Alvarez M., Gustavo. El nio de Isinche, Revista del folklore ecuatoriano, 1 (oct.
1965), 181-185.
4749. Antologa del folklore ecuatoriano (1653-1963): trescientos diez aos de estudios
sobre la cultura tradicional del Ecuador: 33 autores, 51 textos, [edicin de] Paulo de CarvalhoNeto. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1964. 318 p. (Tratado del folklore ecuatoriano; II)
Reprinted: Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 384 p.
4750. Ao por ao: las fiestas de San Pedro en Ayora-Cayambe, Irene Cabay [et al.]. Ayora:
Proyecto Integral Ayora; Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 132 p.
4751. Arosemena M., Alfredo. Da de finados en Uyumbicho, Revista del folklore
ecuatoriano, 3 (ene. 1969), 175-196.
Uyumbicho is a pueblo in the Province of Pichincha.
4752. Astudillo y Astudillo, Jorge. Perfil folklrico de la caa en el Ecuador. Guayaquil:
Universidad Laica Vicente Rocafuerte, 1982. 173 p.
4753. Balarezo C., Piedad; and Enma Brito A. Un estudio antropolgico de las fiestas
tradicionales de Baos, Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 9 (abr. 1986), 9-176.
The Baos in question is that of Azuay, not that of Tungurahua. Also published in: Revista de
antropologa (Cuenca), 9 (abr. 1986), 9-176.
4768. Carvalho-Neto, Paulo de. Geografa del folklore ecuatoriano. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1967. 138 p. (Tratado del folklore ecuatoriano; III)
4769. Carvalho-Neto, Paulo de. Historias a lo divino: 24 historias a lo divino, populares y
tradicionales en el Ecuador, colectadas y re-narradas. Guatemala: Universidad de San Carlos
de Guatemala, Centro de Estudios Folklricos, 1979. 342 p.
4770. Carvalho-Neto, Paulo de. El septenario: (una fiesta tradicional de Cuenca, Provincia
del Azuay), Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 1 (ene. 1968), 9-41.
4771. Cisneros C., Napolen. Octava de Corpus en Quisapincha, Revista del folklore
ecuatoriano, 3 (ene. 1969), 155-174.
Quisapincha is in the Province of Tungurahua
4772. Coba Andrade, Carlos Alberto. Literatura popular afroecuatoriana. Otavalo:
Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1980. 283 p. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 43)
4773. Coplas populares del Azuay, [recopiladas y estudiadas] por Gustavo Garzn, 1 ed.
Quito: El Conejo, 1987. 40 p.
4774. Cornejo, Justino. Chigualito chigual: (biografa completa del villancico
ecuatoriano). Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1959. 228 p.
4775. Cornejo, Justino. Lengua i folklore. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil,
Departamento de Publicaciones, 1963. 144 p.
4776. Cuentos folklricos de la costa del Ecuador: 26 registros de la tradicin oral
ecuatoriana, [recopilados con una introduccin por] Paulo de Carvalho-Neto; clasificacin de
tipos y motivos por Stanley L. Robe. Mxico, D.F.: Servicios Bibliogrficos, Secretara General
del IPGH, 1976. 237 p.
There is also a second volume, containing an additional seventeen stories.
4777. Cuentos folklricos del Ecuador: 52 registros de la tradicin oral, [recopilados con
una introduccin por] Paulo de Carvalho-Neto, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1966. 305 p.
Items 4777 and 4776 have been reprinted as: Cuentos folklricos del Ecuador: (sierra y
costa): volmenes I-II-III. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. xii, 499 p. See also: Cuentos
folklricos del Ecuador. Vol. 4. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1988. 386 p.
4778. Curi quinti: Ecuador llactamanta huinai causai rimaicuna = El Colibr de oro:
literatura oral quichua del Ecuador, [recopilacin y estudio de] Len Coloma M., Mara
Mercedes Cotacachi, Mara Eugenia Quintero, 1 ed. Quito: CEDIME, 1986. 193 p.
4779. Chauvin Hidalgo, Luis. De Loja con humor. Quito: Asociacin Lojana, 1986. 143 p.
Anecdotes, customs, and folklore of the city of Loja.
4780. Da de difuntos en Otavalo, Leonardo Tejada [et al.], Revista del folklore
ecuatoriano, 1 (oct. 1965), 95-113.
4781. Dioses y diablos: tradicin oral de Caar, Ecuador, textos quichuas recogidos y
traducidos por Rosaleen Howard-Malverde. Pars: A.E.A., 1981. 325 p.
4797. Guevara, Dario C. Breve ojeada sobre el desarrollo cientfico del folklore en el
Ecuador, Folklore americano, 3:3 (nov. 1955), 52-70.
Also published in: Museo Histrico, 8:22 (1956), 135-166.
4798. Guevara, Dario C. Comidas y bebidas ecuatorianas, Folklore americano, 8/9
(1960/1961), 217-284.
See also item 4799.
4799. Guevara, Dario C. Expresin ritual de comidas y bebidas ecuatorianas. Quito: Edit.
Universitaria, 1960. 55 p.
Reprinted from: Humanitas (Quito), 2:1 (1960), 37-84.
4800. Guevara, Dario C. Introduccin al estudio del folklore ecuatoriano: I-III, Museo
Histrico, 7:21 (1955), 111-137.
4801. Guevara, Dario C. Un mundo mgico-mtico en la mitad del mundo: folklore
ecuatoriano. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1972. 468 p.
A dictionary of Ecuadorian folklore.
4802. Guevara, Dario C. La quema del Ao Viejo en Quito, Revista del folklore
ecuatoriano, 2 (nov. 1966), 119-147.
4803. Guevara, Dario C. Tradiciones etiolgicas del Ecuador, Folklore americano, 2
(1954), 51-64.
4804. Gutirrez Estvez, Manuel. Sobre el origen de algunas creencias populares, Revista
de antropologa (Cuenca), 6 (jul. 1979), 55-77.
Also published in: Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 6 (jul. 1979), 61-83.
4805. Hartmann, Roswith. Achikee, Chificha y Mama Huaca en la tradicin oral andina,
Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 12 (feb. 1994), 180-197.
Also published in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 12 (feb. 1994), 180-197.
4806. Hartmann, Roswith; and Udo Oberem. Aportes al juego del huairu, Revista del
Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 8 (dic. 1983), 67-101.
Also published in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 8 (ene. 1984), 67-101.
4807. Hartmann, Roswith; and Udo Oberem. Textos quechuas del Oriente ecuatoriano,
Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 7 (1987), 129-181.
Transcribes and comments on Quijos Quechua and Canelos Quechua texts of legends and
traditions.
4808. Hidalgo Alzamora, Laura. Coplas del carnaval de Guaranda, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El
Conejo, 1984. 301 p.
4809. Hidalgo Alzamora, Laura. Dcimas esmeraldeas: recopilacin y anlisis socioliteraria, 1 ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1982. 474 p.
4810. Hidalgo Alzamora, Laura. Literatura oral popular del Ecuador: las dcimas
esmeraldeas, Afro-Hispanic Review, 6:1 (Jan. 1987), 19-26.
4811. Holm, Olaf. Jaile: cordelera rural en la costa del Ecuador, Revista del Instituto
Azuayo de Folklore, 12 (feb. 1994), 198-207.
Also published in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 12 (feb. 1994), 198-207.
4812. Houser, Cristina de. Consideraciones sobre los Cuentos folklricos del Ecuador,
Revista del folklore ecuatoriano, 2 (nov. 1966), 169-181.
Discusses the classification system employed by Carvalho-Neto and Robe in item 4776.
4813. Houser, Cristina de. Fiesta de Reyes en Quisapincha, Revista del folklore
ecuatoriano, 3 (ene. 1969), 41-120.
Quisapincha is in the Province of Tungurahua.
4814. Howard, Rosaleen. Dioses y diablos: tradicin oral de Caar-Ecuador. Paris:
Amerindia, 1981. 325 p.
Publishes her doctoral dissertation: Quichua Tales from Caar, Ecuador. 1978. Saint
Andrew University.
4815. Howard, Rosaleen. Significados de dyablu en el relato quichua de Caar, Ecuador,
Memorias del primer Simposio Europeo sobre Antropologa del Ecuador (item 603), p. 325-354.
4816. Howard, Rosaleen. Turkey Buzzard Tales of the Ecuadorean Quichua, Folklore
Studies in the Twentieth Century: Proceedings of the Centenary Conference of the Folklore
Society, edited by Venetia J. Newall (Woodbridge, UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 1981), p. 240246.
4817. Huerta Rendn, Francisco. De nuestro pasado aborigen: la sonrisa, lo sexual,
brujera y medicina. Guayaquil: Impr. de la Universidad, 1946. 29 p.
4818. Imbabura taita parlan: recopilacin de la tradicin oral indgena, Jos M. Chvez
[compilador]. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1989. 190 p.
4819. Landvar, Manuel A. Adoracin de los Reyes Magos al Divino Infante (drama en
siete actos), Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 3 (1969), 13-88.
Also published in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 2 (1970), 9-84.
4820. Landvar, Manuel A. Contribucin a mitos y leyendas en el Azuay y Caar, Revista
de antropologa (Cuenca), 3 (1971), 101-120.
Also published in: Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 4 (nov. 1971), 101-120.
4821. Landvar, Manuel A. Contribucin al folklore potico en el Azuay, Revista de
antropologa (Cuenca), 3 (1971), 121-180; 4 (1973), 88-110.
Also published in: Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 4 (nov. 1971), 121-180; 5 (dic.
1973), 88-110.
As of the late 1990s, the history of music in Ecuador was inadequately known. But in
addition to the pioneering works of Segundo Luis Moreno (items 4916-4920) and of Robert M.
Stevenson (items 4949 and 4950), see Carlos Alberto Coba Andrades Visin histrica de la
msica en el Ecuador in item 571, p. 33-62.
bascosidad. For a critique of Meras Cantares del pueblo ecuatoriano see Laura Hidalgo
Alzamoras Coplas del carnaval de Guaranda (item 4808).
4869. Arellano Mendzabel, Pablo. El Conservatorio Nacional de Msica, Opus (Quito),
12 (abr. 1986), 27-32; 13 (mayo 1986), 19-22.
4870. Arellano Mendzabel, Pablo. La opera nacional, Opus (Quito), 2: 3 (ago. 1986), 2527.
4871. Aretz, Isabel. Cuatro mil aos de msica en el Ecuador: catlogo. Caracas: Instituto
Interamericano de Etnomusicologa y Folklore, 1976. 77 p.
4872. Arias Altamirano, Ramn. El teatro guayaquileo: quimera y realidad, Guayaquil 70
(item 6793), p. 186-192.
4873. Astudillo Ortega, Juan Mara. Dedos y labios apolineos. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1956. 125 p.
An anthology of essays on the performance of music in Ecuador.
4874. Barroso, Gladys; and Sergio Barroso. Msica y danza en la fiesta del capitn de la
comunidad salasaca: (Prov. del Tungurahua), Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 12 (feb.
1994), 9-179.
Also published in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 12 (feb. 1994), 9-179.
4875. Berghmans, Jos. Hacia el conocimiento, preservacin y desarrollo de Latacunga:
msica indgena quichua ecuatoriana, Cultura, 3:8 (sept./dic. 1980), 171-174.
4876. Burton, Julianne. Ecuador: One Film Does Not a Movement Make, Film Quarterly,
30:1 (Fall 1976), 36-37.
4877. Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Museo de Instrumentos Musicales. Catlogo general
del Museo de Instrumentos Musicales de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1961. 74 p.
4878. Coba Andrade, Carlos Alberto. Constantes y variantes en la etnomusicologa y
folklore, Sarance, 1:1 (oct. 1975), 28-44.
4879. Coba Andrade, Carlos Alberto. Danzas y bailes en el Ecuador. Quito: Abya-Yala,
[1985]. 58 p.
4880. Coba Andrade, Carlos Alberto. Instrumentos musicales ecuatorianos, Sarance, 7
(oct. 1979), 70-95.
4881. Coba Andrade, Carlos Alberto. Instrumentos musicales populares registrados en el
Ecuador. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1981-1992. 2 v. (Coleccin
Pendoleros; 46, 47)
4882. Coplas del carnaval de Chimborazo: formalizacin y clasificacin de un fenmeno
potico popular, Santiago Pez [compilador]; anexo de anlisis y ejecucin musical por
Washington Barreno. Quito: Instituto Andino de Artes Populares del Convenio Andres Bello,
1986. 148 p.
4883. Correa Bustamante, Francisco Jos. Cantares inolvidables del Ecuador, 11 ed.
Guayaquil: Edit. Arquidiocesana Justicia y Paz, [1985]. 404 p.
Useful for biobibliographical data on popular composers. The first edition appeared in 1982.
4884. Cronologa de la cultura cinematogrfica, 1849-1986, Teresa Vsquez [et al.] Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1986. 101 p. (Historia del cine en el Ecuador; no. 1)
4885. Dvila Vsquez, Jorge. Aproximacin al teatro ecuatoriano contemporneo,
Cultura, 3 (ene./abr. 1979), 381-396.
4886. Descalzi, Ricardo. Historia crtica del teatro ecuatoriano. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1968. 6 v.
4887. Espinosa Cordero, Simn. La televisin en Quito, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984),
411-419.
An analysis of program offerings as of the early 1980s and the role of television in the
promotion of culture.
4888. Espinosa Plit, Aurelio. Resea histrica del himno nacional ecuatoriano. Quito:
Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1948. 95 p.
4889. Estrella, Ulises. Reflexiones sobre el cine ecuatoriano, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr.
1984), 257-261.
Includes some information on alternative film making in the 1970s.
4890. Estrella, Ulises. Situacin y proyecciones del teatro en el Ecuador, Conjunto, 12
(1972), 62-65.
4891. Estrella, Ulises. El teatro obrero en el Ecuador, Conjunto, 9 (1970), 117-120.
4892. Gabor, Charles G. Antologa: introduccin a la msica folklrica del Ecuador. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1981. 61 p.
4893. Galich, Manuel. Noticias ecuatorianas de teatro, Conjunto, 8 (1969), 116-119.
4894. Godoy Aguirre, Mara. Florilegio de la msica ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Edit. del
Pacfico, [1988?] 606 p.
A potpourri of history of music in Ecuador and of Ecuadorian music.
4985. Guarderas, Ruben. La danza en los ltimos veinte aos, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr.
1984), 311-318.
Examines developments and events of the 1970s and early 1980s.
4896. Guerrero, Juan Agustn. La msica ecuatoriana desde su origen hasta 1875, 2 ed.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1984. 54 p. (Fuentes y documentos para la historia de la
msica en el Ecuador; 1)
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1876.
The pioneering survey of the history of music during the national period. Covers the years
1825 through 1875.
4897. Guerrero, Juan Agustn. Yaraves quiteos: msica ecuatoriana en el siglo XIX.
Quito: Direccin de Educacin y Cultura, I. Municipio de Quito, 1993. 89 p.
4898. Guevara, Gerardo. Estado actual de la msica, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984), 287293.
Includes some historical data.
4899. Harcourt, Raoul d; and Marguerite Bclard dHarcourt. La msica de los Incas y sus
supervivencias. Lima: Occidental Petroleum Corp. of Peru, 1990. xxii, 605 p.
Originally published in French as: Musique des Incas et ses survivancs. Paris: P. Geuthner,
1925. 2 v. A study of Andean music at large.
4900. Harrison, Frank; and Joan Harrison. A Villancico Manuscript in Ecuador: Musical
Acculturations in a Tri-Ethnic Society, Studien zur Tradition in der Musik, Hans Heinrich ed.
(Mnchen: Eggebrecht & Max L. tolf, 1973), p. 101-119.
4901. Hickmann, Ellen. Instrumentos musicales del Museo Antropolgico del Banco
Central del Ecuador, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 6:6 (1986), 11-140; 7:7 (1987), 729.
4902. Hickmann, Ellen. Musik aus dem Altertum der Neuen Welt: archologische
Dokumente des Musizieren in prkolumbischen Kulturen Perus, Ekuadors und Kolumbiens.
Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1990. 491 p.
4903. Idrobo Urigen, Jaime. Instrumentos musicales prehispnicos del Ecuador: estudio de
la exposicin Msica Milenaria. Cuenca: Museo del Banco Central del Ecuador, 1987. 202 p.
4904. Jaramillo Ruiz, F. Rogelio. Loja, cuna de artistas: monografa sobre la msica de la
Provincia de Loja, 1 ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura,
1983. 470 p.
4905. Jimnez de la Espada, Marcos. Yaraves quiteos, Actas del Cuarto Congreso
Internacional de Americanistas (Madrid, 1881), vol. 2, p. 162, i-lxxxviii.
The text of the yaraves were furnished by Juan Agustn Guerrero, the acting director of the
National Conservatory (1871-1872). See also item 4897.
4906. Landvar, Manuel A. Contribucin al folklore musical en Azuay y Caar Revista del
Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 5 (dic. 1973), 43-66.
4907. Landvar, Manuel A. Msica folklrica y popular, Revista de antropologa
(Cuenca), 6 (jul. 1979), 78-116.
Also published in: Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 6 (jul. 1979), 84-122.
4908. Luzuriaga, Camilo. La produccin cinematogrfica, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984),
263-273.
A critical review of film making, past as well as present, in Ecuador.
4922. Morlas Gutirrez, Alberto. Florilegio del pasillo ecuatoriano. Quito: Edit. J. Ricke,
1961. 486 p.
4923. Muoz, Juan Pablo. La msica en Quito, Amrica (Quito), 9:58 (nov./dic. 1934),
489-496.
4924. National Popular Theatre in Quito, World Theatre, 16:5/6 (1967), 538-541.
In English and French.
4925. Nez Snchez, Jorge. Pasillo: cancin de desarraigo, Cultura, 3:7 (mayo/ago.
1980), 223-230.
4926. Ordez, Marcelo. Danza y definicin cultural, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./mar. 1984),
319-325.
An essay on the study and performance of ballet in the country.
4927. Pietri Levy, Anne Lise. Entretien avec le groupe Jatari: la nouvelle chanson en
Equateur, Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brsilien (Caravelle), 48 (1987), 127-133.
4928. Riedel, Johannes. The Ecuadorean Pasillo: Msica Popular, Msica Nacional, or
Msica Folklrica?, Latin American Music Review, 7:1 (Spring/Summer 1986), 1-25.
4929. Rodrguez Castelo, Edmundo. El cine y su problemtica legal, Cultura, 6:18a
(ene./abr. 1984), 275-283.
4930. Rodrguez Castelo, Hernn. Teatro ecuatoriano, Cuadernos hispanoamericanos,
58:172 (abr. 1964), 81-119.
A comprehensive review of the history of the theater in Ecuador from the late nineteenth
century through 1963.
4931. Rolando, Carlos A. La msica en el Ecuador, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 11:26/28 (1958), 197-218.
4932. Senz Andrade, Bruno. Aspectos de una poltica de desarrollo musical, Cultura,
6:18b (ene./abr. 1984), 295-302.
4933. Senz Andrade, Bruno. La msica en 1979: la Orquestra Sinfnica Nacional,
Cultura, 2:4 (mayo/ago. 1979), 225-231.
4934. Senz Andrade, Bruno. Msica y poltica cultural, Cultura, 2:5 (sept./dic. 1979),
183-186.
4935. Salamea Carpio, Diego. Instrumentos musicales populares de la Provincia del Caar.
Cuenca: Fondo de Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1986. 121 p.
4936. Salgado, Luis H. El Conservatorio de Msica y sus directores, Anales de la
Universidad Central, 80:333/334 (jul./dic. 1952), 217-223.
4937. Salgado, Luis H. Msica verncula ecuatoriana, Revista de la Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana (Quito), 4:11 (1951), 365-376.
4938. San Flix, Alvaro. Radiodifusin en la mitad el mundo: apuntes histricos. Quito:
Editora Nacional, 1991. 214 p.
4939. San Flix, Alvaro. Teatro de intencin poltica en el Ecuador, Cultura, 5:13
(mayo/ago. 1982), 209-225.
4940. Schechter, John Mendell. Corona y Baile: Music in the Childs Wake of Ecuador and
Hispanic South America, Past and Present, Latin American Music Review, 4:1 (Spring/Summer
1983), 1-80.
4941. Schechter, John Mendell. The Indispensable Harp: Historical Development, Modern
Roles, Configurations, and Performance Practices in Ecuador and Latin America. Kent: Kent
State University Press, 1992. viii, 288 p.
4942. Schechter, John Mendell. Music in a Northern Ecuadorian Highland Locus: Diatonic
Harp, Genres, Harpists, and Their Ritual Function in the Quechua Childs Wake. 1982. xxii,
947 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin.
Includes transcriptions of songs and dances.
4943. Schechter, John Mendell. Quechua Sanjuan in Northern Highland Ecuador: Harp
Music as Structural Metaphor on Purina, Journal of Latin American Lore, 13:1 (Summer 1987),
27-46.
See also Schechters Latin America/Ecuador, in Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the
Music of the Worlds Peoples, Jeff Todd Titon, general editor, 2nd ed. (New York: Schirmer
Books, 1992), p. 376-428, most of which is given over to ethnic--including Afro-Ecuadorian-music in Ecuador (i.e., p. 388-426).
4944. Segovia, Mariana; and Luis Seplveda. Balance crtico del teatro ecuatoriano: enero
1978-marzo 1979, Cultura, 2:5 (sept./dic. 1979), 69-109.
4945. Seitz, Barbara. Quichua Songs to Sadden the Heart: Music in a Communication
Event, Latin American Music Review, 2:2 (Fall/Winter 1981), 223-251.
4946. Sigmund, Charles Edar. Segundo Luis Moreno: His Contributions to Ecuadorian
Musicology. 1971. viii, 507 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota.
4947. Sigmund, Charles Edar. Segundo Luis Moreno, 1882-1972: Ecuadors Pioneer
Musicologist, Yearbook for Inter-American Musical Research, 8 (1972), 71-104.
Also published in Spanish as: Segundo Luis Moreno (1882-1972): el primer musiclogo del
Ecuador, Cultura, 4:11 (sept./dic. 1981), 265-294.
4948. Sojos Jaramillo, Rafael. La verdad histrica de la msica del himno nacional del
Ecuador, Tres de noviembre, nueva poca, 2 (nov. 1980), 54-70.
4949. Stevenson, Robert. Music in Quito: Four Centuries, Hispanic American Historical
Review, 43:2 (May 1963), 247-266.
Also published in Spanish as: La msica en Quito, ARNAHIS, 11:17 (10 ago. 1968), 7-28;
and in a 2 ed. as a separate: Quito: Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1989. 37 p. (Fuentes y documentos para la historia de la msica en el Ecuador; 3).
4950. Stevenson, Robert. Quito Cathedral: Four Centuries, Inter-American Music Review,
3:1 (Fall 1980), 19-38.
Together items 4949 and 4950 constitute detailed and more or less comprehensive studies of
European music in the country from the Spanish conquest through the early twentieth century.
Both are based on the appropriate literature and considerable archival research.
4951. Taylor, Anne-Christine; and Ernesto Chau. Jivaroan Magical Songs: Achuar Anent of
Connubial Love, Amerindia: revue dethnolinguistique amerindienne, 8 (1983), 87-127.
4952. Tobar Garca, Francisco. El teatro durante los aos de 1944 a 1956 vistos por un
autor, Trece aos de cultural nacional (item 3717), vol. 2, p. 83-100.
4953. Vargas, Ilonka. El teatro: su situacin actual y sus perspectivas, Cultura, 6:18
(ene./abr. 1984), 229-244.
4954. Vargas, Jos Mara. La msica en la colonia, Corona de Mara, 50:573/574
(sept./oct. 1949), 276-288.
4955. Vera, Noralma. La danza en el Ecuador, Cultura, 6:18b (ene./abr. 1984), 305-310.
Includes some historical data.
HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF ECUADOR
Vol. II
by
Michael T. Hamerly
CHURCH HISTORY
The only chronologically complete history of the Catholic Church during the colonial period
is Jos Mara Vargass Historia de la Iglesia en el Ecuador durante el patronato espaol (item
5205). A modern account is desperately in need, however, one that takes into account economic
and social aspects of church history and the role of indigenous peoples and blacks in religion and
church life. (I have not yet seen the Historia de la Iglesia Catlica en el Ecuadors / dirigida por
Jorge Salvador Lara ; con la colaboracin de la Academia Nacional de Historia [Quito, Ecuador :
Conferencia Episcopal Ecuatoriana : Academia Nacional de Historia : Ediciones Abya-Yala,
2001; 3 vols. <xxi, 1800 pp.>], and therefore do not know if it meets the preceding criteria.)
Insofar as the national period is concerned, there is no comprehensive overview, only a series of
major as well as minor monographs, especially those by Julio Tobar Donoso (item 5189-5193),
that taken together do not even cover all of the nineteenth century. This is not meant to disparate
the important works of Tobar Donoso but to stress the continuing incompleteness of coverage of
ecclesiastical developments during the national period. In this regard it should also be noted that
there are no historical accounts of the twentieth century of the Catholic Church except for those
of the Conceptionists of Loja and of the missions in the Oriente. There are, however, of
Protestant churches.
4956. Albn Estrada, Mara; and Juan Pablo Muoz. Con Dios todo se puede: la invasin de
las sectas al Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Planeta, 1987. 206 p.
A critical account of Protestant movements in the country, especially of the Evangelical sects.
4957. Albuja Mateus, Augusto E. Doctrinas y parroquias del Obispado de Quito en la
segunda mitad del siglo XVI. Madrid: Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, 1961. 53 p.
Also published as: El obispado de Quito en el siglo XVI, Missionalia Hispanica, 18:53
(mayo/ago. 1961), 161-209.
4958. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Vida religiosa, social y econmica de las Conceptas de Loja,
1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995. 245 p.
A detailed, well documented history.
4959. Andrade, Susana. Visin Mundial: entre el cielo y la tierra: religin y desarrollo en la
sierra ecuatoriana. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Centro de Planificacin y Estudios Sociales,
1990. xi, 106 p.
A study of World Vision and its development programs and projects in the highlands.
4960. Ardito Vega, Wilfrido. Mecanismos iniciales de contacto de los misioneros jesuitas
de Maynas, La Evangelizacin del Per: siglos XVI y XVII: actas del Primer Congreso Peruano
de Historia Eclesistica, Arequipa, 1990 (Arequipa: Arzobispado de Arequipa, [1992?]), p. 353364.
4961. Arellano Gallegos, Jorge. Teologa de la liberacin: clericalismo en clave marxista, 2
ed., corr. y aum. Quito: Fundacin El Libro Libre, 1991. 156 p.
4962. Ascaray, Juan de. Serie chronolgica de los ilustrsimos seores obispos, que
ocuparon la silla episcopal de Quito ... Quito: Impr. de Mauricio de los Reyes, 1794. 1 v. (not
paginated).
4963. Bamat, Thomas P. Salvacin o dominacin?: las sectas religiosas en el Ecuador, 1
ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1986. 207 p.
A critical yet objective delineation and evaluation of the emergence of Protestantism,
especially of the Unin Misionera Evanglica (the Gospel Missionary Union) and Alianza
Cristiana Misionera sects, as a significant forces in the religious life of the nation, especially
during the quarter century preceding the publication of the work in question. The author is a
North American sociologist, married to an Ecuadorian, with several years of living and research
experience in the country.
4964. Barnuevo, Rodrigo. Relacin apologtica as del antiguo como nuevo descubrimiento
del Ro de las Amazonas hecho por los religiosos de la Compaa de Jess de Quito. Quito:
Impr. del Gobierno, 1942. 27 p. (Biblioteca Amazonas; 6)
Part of the mid-seventeenth-century debate between the Jesuits and the Franciscans as to
which order initiated the conversion and salvation of ethnic groups in the Oriente. See also
items 4999 and 5097.
4965. Barriga Lpez, Franklin. Las culturas indgenas ecuatorianas y el Instituto Lingstico
de Verano. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Amauta, 1992. i, 453 p.
4966. Barrueco, Domingo. El Vicariato de Mendez a los 75 aos de su fundacin. Cuenca:
Edit. Don Bosco, 1968. 93 p.
4967. Bayle, Constantino. IV centenario del descubrimiento del Amazonas: descubridores
jesuitas del Amazonas: breve descripcin de la Provincia de Quito en la Amrica Meridional, y
de sus misiones de Sucumbos de religiosos de S. Francisco, y de Maynas de padres de la
Compaa de Jess, a las orillas del gran Ro Maran, hecha para el mapa que se hizo del ao
1740, por el P. Juan Magnin, de dicha Compaa, misionero de dichas misiones, Revista de
Indias, 1:1 (1940), 121-185.
4968. Bayle, Constantino. Las misiones de Mainas hacia la mitad del siglo XVIII,
Missionalia hispanica, 5:15 (1948), 543-565.
Publishes the report of the 1736-1737 inspection of the state of the missions by the Spanish
Jesuit Andrs de Zrate (1682-1753).
4969. Bayle, Constantino. Las misiones, defensa de las fronteras: Mainas, Missionalia
hispanica, 8:24 (1951), 417-503.
Also published as a separate: Madrid: Ediciones Jura, 1951. 91 p.
4970. Bermeo, Antonio. Dicesis de Cuenca: acotaciones histricas (1.751-1.951), Boletn
del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 9:21/22 (1952), 77-104.
Consists of research notes, almost all of which are based on archival research.
4971. Blanco, Jos Mara. Serie cronolgica de los ilustrsimos seores obispos de Quito
desde la ereccin de su catedral hasta el ilustrsimo Sr. Arzobispo Garaicoa (1841), Museo
Histrico, 22 (feb. 1956), 78-96.
Continues Ascaray (item 4962).
4972. Bottasso, Juan. Las misiones y la aculturacin de los Shuar, Amrica indgena, 44:1
(ene./mar. 1984), 143-155.
4973. Bottasso, Juan. Les missions salesiennes et le peuple Shuar: bilan dune experience,
Recherches amrindiennes au Qubec, 21:4 (1991), 77-91.
4974. Bottasso, Juan. Los Shuar y las misiones: entre la hostilidad y el dilogo. Quito:
Mundo Shuar, 1982. 233 p.
Items 4972-4974 are insightful and well informed analyses of historic and late-twentiethcentury Catholic missions and work strategies among the Shuar. Although himself a Salesian
missionary, the author does not mince words as to the negative impact of the early missions. In
this regard, it should be noted that nowadays some Catholic missionaries maintain that
indigenous ethnic groups are peoples in their own right and that they have been victimized by the
expansion of Western or modern society.
4975. Bravo, Julin G. La Dolorosa del Colegio, en la perspectiva histrica de la Repblica
del Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, 1984. ix, 216 p.
4976. Bravo P., Ernesto. Protestantismo en el Ecuador, Revista del Instituto de Historia
Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 13 (1993), 35-49.
An essay on the emergence of Protestantism as a significant movement in the second half of
the twentieth century. Perhaps the most important points that Bravo makes is that Protestant
missionaries, almost all of whom have been North Americans, not only do not believe that
Catholics are Christians but also are decidedly anti-Catholic.
4977. Breve resea de los trabajos de la Compaa de Jess en el Ecuador, El Ecuador en
cien aos de independencia (item 1927), vol. 1, p. 128-133.
Reprinted in: Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-1930, 1947, vol. 1, p. 383-384.
4978. Broseghini, Silvio. Cuatro siglos de misiones entre los Shuar: los mtodos. Quito:
Mundo Shuar, 1983. 176 p.
4989. Conde, Toms. Los Yaguarzongos: historia de los Shuar de Zamora. Suca: Mundo
Shuar, 1981. 168 p.
Publishes for the first time a 1931 work on Jesuit and Franciscan attempts to evangelize
Jbaros in the Apostolic Vicariate of Zamora during the colonial period and the nineteenth
century.
4990. La Congregacin de padres redentoristas en el Ecuador, El Ecuador en cien aos de
independencia (item 1927), vol. 1, p. 181-185.
Reprinted in: Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 416-417.
4991. La Congregacin Salesiana en el Ecuador, 1888-1948, Resumen histrico del
Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 405-415.
4992. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo. Los jesuitas en la Presidencia de Quito, Museo
Histrico, 6:20 (jun. 1954), 125-135.
4993. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo. Misiones catlicas y protestantes entre los aborgenes
del Oriente ecuatoriano, Amrica indgena, 21:1 (ene./mar. 1961), 269-280.
4994. Creamer Gmez, Pedro. Iglesia y sociedad en el Ecuador contemporneo:
interpretacin teolgico-pastoral de la documentacin episcopal. Quito: Impr. del Colegio
Tcnico Don Bosco, 1981. 522 p.
4995. La Crnica de la celebracin del cuarto centenario de la ereccin de la provincia
dominicana en el Ecuador, ordenada por Jos Mara Vargas. Quito: Presidencia de la Repblica,
Comisin Permanente de Conmemoraciones Cvicas; Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn
Carrin, 1988. 177 p.
4996. Cuesta Domingo, Mariano. Los exploradores franciscanos, Domingo de Briera y
Laureano de la Cruz, Actas del 2 Congreso Internacional sobre los Franciscanos en el Nuevo
Mundo, direccin de Paulino Casteeda (Madrid: Edit. Deimos, 1990), p. 1139-1177. (Archivo
ibero-americano; 50:197/200)
Notwithstanding the title, a review of Franciscan missions in general in the Oriente during the
first half of the colonial period. Includes, nonetheless, a number of previously unpublished
documents on the explorations and missionary endeavors of Fathers Briera and de la Cruz.
4997. Chacn, Jorge. Los misioneros jesuitas a lo largo del Amazonas. Quito: Prensa
Catlica, 1941. 46 p.
4998. Chantre y Herrera, Jos. Historia de las misiones de la Compaa de Jess en el
Maran espaol desde 1637 hasta 1767. Madrid: Impr. de A. Avrial, 1901. xiv, 744 p.
A well documented, comprehensive history of Jesuit missions in Mainas by an eighteenthcentury Jesuit. A classic account.
4999. De la Cruz Montesdeoca, Laureano. Nuevo descubrimiento del Ro Maran llamado
de las Amazonas, hecho por la Religin de San Francisco: siendo misioneros el P. Fr. Laurenao
de la Cruz y el P. Fr. Juan de Quincoces ..., in: Francisco Mara Compte, Varones ilustres
(item 4993), vol. 1, p. 147-204.
Based on Ascarays Serie cronolgica (item 4962), but corrected, augmented, and updated.
Reprinted in part con notas ilustrativos por C. de Gangotena y Jijn in: Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 6:15/17 (ene./jun. 1923), 139-153; 7:19 (sept./oct. 1923), 254-262.
5009. Drown, Frank; and Marie Drown. Mission to the Head-Hunters. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1961. 252 p.
An account by husband and wife missionaries of the Gospel Missionary Union of their fifteen
years among the Shuar and the Achuar.
5010. Ecuador, iglesia, pueblo y liberacin, Roberto Farez [et al.]. Quito: Fundacin
Ecuatoriana de Estudios Sociales, 1986. 207 p.
5011. Enrquez B., Eliecer. Trptico franciscano quiteo. Quito: [s.n.], 1968. 125 p.
Part four of his Quito a travs de los siglos set.
5012. E.S. Resea histrica de los diezmos. Guayaquil: Impr. de la Nacin, 1884. 155 p.
The authors identity is unknown. Includes a chapter on El diezmo en el Ecuador.
5013. Establecimiento de la Compaa de Jess en la Repblica del Ecuador el ao 1851.
Quito: Impr. de Miranda, 1851. 86 p.
On the aborted attempt to reestablish the Jesuit order in the country in 1851.
5014. Espinosa y Estrada, Beltrn. Algunos priores de Quito: datos sueltos para la historia
del Convento Mximo Dominicano, Corona de Mara, 42:484 (mayo 1941), 700-704.
5015. Espinosa y Estrada, Beltrn. Algunos procuradores dominicanos de Quito: datos
sueltos para la historia del Convento Mximo Dominicano, Corona de Mara, 42:485 (jun.
1941), 746-749; 42:486 (jul. 1941), 785-787; 42:487 (ago. 1941), 825-828; 42:488 (sept. 1941),
853-856; 42:490 (nov. 1941), 935-938.
5016. Espinosa y Estrada, Beltrn. Capellanas fundadas en favor del Convento Dominicano
de Quito, Corona de Mara , 42:489 (oct. 1941), 895-897; 43:492 (ene. 1942), 15-17.
5017. Espinosa y Estrada, Beltrn. Los dominicos en Guayaquil, Corona de Mara, 50:576
(dic. 1949), 363-364, 373-379.
5018. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Apuntes sobre la Catedral de Guayaquil, Revista, Instituto de
Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 1 (1974), 179-188.
Delineates the pre-1838 aspirations of the port city to become a diocesan seat.
5019. Figueroa, Francisco de. Relacin de las misiones de la Compaa de Jess en el
Maran espaol. Madrid: Libr. General de Victoriano Surez, 1904. xv, 420 p.
The 1661 report of the superior (1640-1664) of the Jesuit missions in the Oriente.
5020. Ford, Lillian Gertrude. In the High Andes. Nashville: Southern Publishing
Association, 1932. 224 p.
On the activities of the Seven Day Adventist missionaries Mr. and Mrs. (the author) Orley
Ford. The Fords operated a mission station in Colta, Chimborazo, in the 1920s.
5021. Francesia, Giovanni Battista. Nuestros misioneros de Quito en el Ecuador, traduccin
de Francisco Fraga y Escuer. Barcelona: Escuela Tip. y Librera Salesiana, 1902. 1 v.
An account of Salesian activities in Ecuador circa 1900. The only vol. published.
5022. Freile Granizo, Carlos. Examen de aptitud para confesar tomado por el obispo de
Quito, Pedro de la Pea, en 1534, Quitumbe, 8 (jun. 1994), 43-55.
Examines Bishop de la Peas utilization of episcopal authority to license the hearing of
confessions. Exemplifies the prelates concerns and approach by reproducing the examination
of Diego Lobato, the first Ecuadorian born priest. An essay in intellectual as well as
ecclesiastical history.
5023. Freile Granizo, Carlos. Historia de las Indias y la fe cristiana: el caso quitense,
Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 10 (1990), 9-25.
A discourse on various prelates and priests of the early-colonial period whom Freile Granizo
considers to have been true Christians (e.g., the Franciscan Marcos de Niza, the Dominican
Pedro Bedn, and Bishop de la Pea).
5024. Freile Granizo, Carlos. Mons. Jos Prez Calama, obispo de Quito (1740-1793),
Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 13 (1993), 51-94.
A new appreciation of the episcopal, catechismal, and intellectual labors of this distinguished
and enlightened prelate. Based on research in the Archivo General de Indias and on Prez
Calamas unpublished as well as published oeuvre.
5025. Freile Granizo, Carlos. Los obispos de Quito y la situacin colonial (1565-1605),
Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 11 (1991), 113-150.
A well researched, if somewhat apologetic, study of Bishops Pedro de la Pea (1565-1583)
and Luis Lpez de Sols (1594-1605), especially of their efforts to protect indigenes as well as to
promote their evangelization. Also based on research in the Archivo General de Indias.
5026. Garca, Lorenzo. Historia de las misiones en la Amazonia ecuatoriana. Quito: AbyaYala, 1985. 432 p.
A modern chronicle of the history of Catholic missions in the Upper Amazon Basin from the
earliest incursions of Dominicans, Franciscans, and Jesuits in the 1500s through the 1970s.
Highly factual but far from objective. The author, himself a Discalced Carmelite, refers to
shamans, for example, as hechiceros y brujos.
5027. Gasso, Leonardo; and Manuel Guzmn. Directorio de las doctrinas quichuas en el
Ecuador. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1895. viii, 316 p.
In its day, a handbook for clergy assigned to rural parishes in the highlands. Nowadays a
historical linguistic as well as a church history source.
5028. Gavilanes, Ramn. La orden de la Merced, El Ecuador en cien aos de
independencia (item 1927), vol. 1, p. 116-127.
Reprinted in: Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 360-368.
5029. Goffin, Alvin M. The Rise of Protestant Evangelism in Ecuador, 1895-1990.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1994. xxiv, 189 p.
Based on authors doctoral dissertation: Protestantism in Ecuador: a Case Study in Latin
American Church History, 1895-1980s. 1990. Florida State University. A critical yet even
handed and well documented analysis of the more negative than positive impact--according to
Goffin--of Christian sects on the peoples and cultures of Ecuador, especially of World Radio
Missionary Fellowship, Summer Institute of Linguistics, and World Vision International.
Includes chapters on the response of the Catholic Church and of indigenous groups to the
Protestant threat.
5030. Gold, Robert L. Problems of Protestantism in Ecuador, 1866-1873, Journal of
Church and State, 12:1 (Winter 1970), 59-77.
5031. Gonzlez Dvila, Gil. Teatro eclesistico de la Santa Iglesia de Quito y vidas de sus
obispos, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 32-39.
Reprinted from vol. 2 of authors: Teatro eclesistico de la primitiva Iglesia de las Indias.
Madrid, 1649-1655. 2 v.
5032. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Carta del Ilmo. y Rmo. Sr. Dr. D. Federico Gonzlez
Surez, obispo de Ibarra, a su vicario general: explicada por el mismo autor. Quito: Escuela de
Artes y Oficios, 1900. iv, 123 p. (Cuestiones palpitantes; 2)
5033. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Epistolario de Gonzlez Surez, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 24:63 (ene./jun. 1944), 124-146; 24:64 (jul./dic. 1944), 253-262; 25:65
(ene./jun. 1945), 81-84.
Published by Julio Tobar Donoso.
5034. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Historia eclesistica del Ecuador: desde los tiempos de la
conquista hasta nuestros das. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1881. xxxviii, 407 p.
Only vol. 1, covering the years 1520-1600, appeared. But the archbishop historian continued
coverage of the church in his Historia general (item 1388), that is as much an ecclesiastical as a
political history of the colonial period, for which reason--and because as he himself admits, his
Historia eclesistica may be considered a preliminary version of his Historia general--the two
works are sometimes confused.
5035. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Miscelnea religiosa; o, Coleccin de opsculos. Quito:
Impr. del Clero, 1913. viii, 287 p.
Contents: Instruccin sobre la inmaculada concepcin de la Santsima Virgen; Carta a los
soldados del Batalln Pichincha; Documentos sobre la ley llamada de cultos; Documentos
sobre la ley de patronato; Documentos relativos a los abusos de la libertad de imprenta;
Manifiesta sobre la reforma de la Constitucin; Boletn diocesano de Ibarra ...; Cartas al Sr.
vicario general de Guayaquil con motivo de la aparicin de la peste bubnica en esa ciudad;
Las biblias protestantes.
Reviews the presence of Protestant churches from the arrival of the British Bible Society in
the late 1800s through the mid 1980s.
5041. Grison, Cabriel. Souvenirs de lEquateur (1888-1896). Roma: Imprim par la
direction de la revue: Il Regno del Sacro Cuore di Ges, 1931. vi, iii, 336 p.
Memoirs of the labors a member of the French Order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the
Diocese of Portoviejo and the Archdiocese of Cuenca.
5042. Guerra Bravo, Samuel. La Iglesia en los siglos de coloniaje hispnico Nueva historia
del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 5, p. 57-86.
A thoughtful survey of the role of the church in the Spanish conquest of the future Ecuador
and in the politics and government, economy, society, and culture of the colonial period. Also
published in Revista de historia de Amrica, 103 (ene./jun. 1987), 107-129.
5043. Gerriero, Antonio. Un siglo de historia Salesiana en el Ecuador, 1888-1988,
Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 10 (1990), 135-162.
A prcis of the future book with the same title by Gerriero and Pedro Creamer (Quito: [s.n.],
1997; 374 p.). Well researched.
5044. Gua espiritual de Quito, recopilacin y notas bio-bibliogrficas: Eliecer Enrquez B.
Quito: Edit. Los Andes, 1953. 244 p.
5045. Hart, Laurie. Story of the Wycliffe Translators: Pacifying the Last Frontiers,
NACLAs Latin America and Empire Report, 8:10 (1973), 15-31.
5046. Hartmann, Roswith. Un predicador quechua del siglo XVI, Memoria del primer
Simposio Europeo sobre Antropologa del Ecuador (item 603), p. 291-301.
5047. Hefley, James C.; and Marti Hefley. Unstilled Voices, 1st ed. Chappaque, N.Y.:
Christian Herald Books, 1981. 236 p.
5048. Heredia, Jos Flix. La antigua Provincia de Quito de la Compaa de Jess y sus
misiones entre infieles. Riobamba: Tip. Catlica San Bernardo, 1924. 35 p.
5049. Heredia, Jos Flix. La azucena de Quito y la Compaa de Jess: rasgos histricos,
Boletn de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos Americanos, 2:4 (ene./feb. 1919), 3856.
On the relationship between Saint Mariana de Jesus and the Jesuits. Also published as a
separate: Guayaquil: Impr. Gutenberg, 1950. 47 p.
5050. Heredia, Jos Flix. La consagracin de la Repblica del Ecuador al Sagrado
Corazn de Jess: rasgos histricos. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1935. 415 p.
5051. Hermida, Luis Felipe. Los jesuitas en Manab y Esmeraldas: datos para la historia.
Portoviejo: Julio Tobar Garca, 1983. 175 p.
5052. Hernez, N. Ereccin del obispado de Cuenca, Publicaciones de la Academia
Arquidiocesana de Historia Eclesistica, 5 (nov. 1979), 26-32.
5053. Historiadores y cronistas de las misiones, estudio y selecciones de Julio Tobar Donoso.
Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1960. 506 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana mnima; [4])
An anthology of selections from the writings of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century
Franciscans and Jesuits regarding the history and state of their missions in the Oriente.
5054. Homenaje del Ecuador a don Bosco: la obra Salesiana en el Ecuador (1888-1935),
[editado por] Elias Brito. Quito: Escuela Tipogrfica Salesiana, 1935-1938. 3 v.
Sometimes misdescribed as separates because of variations in title. Vol. 2 subtitled: La
apoteosis de San Juan Bosco en el Ecuador y las bodas de oro sacerdotales(1888-1938); vol. 3:
Misiones Salesianas del Oriente ecuatoriano. A monumental, basic history of the Salesian order
in Ecuador.
5055. Iglesia Catlica. Arquidicesis de Quito (Ecuador). Concilium Provinciale Primum
Quitense: Habitum in Sancta Eclesia Metropolitana Quitensi Anno 1863. Quiti: Typis Joannis
Campuzani, per Julium Villavicentium, 1869. 155 p.
The proceedings of the first Council of 1863.
5056. Iglesia Catlica. Arquidicesis de Quito (Ecuador). Concili Provincialis Quitensis IV
Acta et Decreta. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1885. xiii, 58, 47 p.
The proceedings of the fourth Council of 1885.
5057. Iglesia Catlica. Arquidicesis de Quito (Ecuador). Concilium Provincialis Secundi
Quitensis Acta et Decreta. Roma: Ex Tipographia Salviucci, 1871. 74 p.
The proceedings of the second Council of 1869.
5058. Iglesia Catlica. Arquidicesis de Quito (Ecuador). Decretos del primer Concilio
Provincial Quitense: celebrado por el ilustrsimo y reverendsimo seor Dr. Jos Mara Riofro,
arzobispo de Quito, con los otros obispos de las dicesis de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito,
1861. 72 p.
5059. Iglesia Catlica. Dicesis de Guayaquil (Ecuador). Cuarto Snodo Diocesano:
celebrado en la ciudad de Guayaquil en los das 6,7,8 y 9 de octubre de 1938, por el Excmo. y
Rvmo. Sr. Dr. D. Jos Flix Heredia, S.J., obispo de la dicesis. Guayaquil: Lib. e Impr.
Gutenberg de E.A. Uzctegui, 1940. 60 p.
5060. Iglesia Catlica. Dicesis de Guayaquil (Ecuador). Quinto Snodo Diocesano:
celebrado en la ciudad de Guayaquil en los das 16, 17 y 18 de febrero de 1951, por el Excmo. y
Rvmo. Sr. Dr. Dn. Jos Flix Heredia, S.J., obispo residencial de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Lib. e
Impr. Gutenberg de E.A. Usctegui, 1951. 126 p.
5061. La Iglesia en Venezuela y Ecuador, Isidoro Alonso [et al.]. Friburgo: Oficina
Internacional de Investigaciones Sociales de FERES; Madrid: Centro de Informacin y
Sociologa de la Obra de Cooperacin Sacerdotal Hispanoamericana (O.C.S.H.A.), 1962. 201 p.
About three fourths of this quantitative analysis of the state of the Catholic clergy in the two
countries, as of the 1950s, is given over to Ecuador. A useful statistical sketch.
5062. La Iglesia Shuar: nueva presencia y nuevo lenguaje, Silvio Broseghini [et al.], 2 ed.
Suca: Mundo Shaur, 1978. 80 p.
5063. Iglesias, Valentn. La Capilla de la Vera Cruz y los agustinos: un convento de
recolectos en Quito, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 3:7/8 (sept./dic. 1921), 260265.
5064. Iglesias, Valentn. La fundacin del convento agustiniano de Pasto, Boletn de la
Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos Americanos, 3:7/8 (jul./oct. 1919), 149-152.
5065. Iglesias, Valentn. La fundacin del Convento de San Agustn de Quito, Boletn de
la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos Americanos, 3:9 (nov./dic. 1919), 264-272.
5066. Iglesias, Valentn. La Iglesia de San Agustn de Quito: datos histricos, Boletn
eclesistico de la Provincia Ecuatoriana, 23:14 (15 jul. 1916), 436-422; 26:5/6 (mar. 1919),
234-241; 26:9/12 (mayo/jun. 1919), 313-318; 26:13/14 (jul. 1919), 381-384; 26:15/16 (ago.
1919), 444-449; 26:17/20 (sept./oct. 1919), 578-586.
5067. Indice histrico de la Dicesis de Cuenca, 1919-1944: contribucin del Comit del
Clero a las fiestas del vigsimo quinto aniversario de la consagracin episcopal de su excelencia
el seor obispo de la dicesis, monseor Daniel Hermida, celebradas el 9 de noviembre de 1944,
[editor] Carlos Tern Zenteno. Cuenca: Edit. Catlica de J.M. Astudillo Regalado, 1947. iv, 568
p.
An order by order and parish by parish history of the Catholic Church in the Provinces of
Caar and Azuay, mostly authored by regional superiors and local pastors. A treasure trove of
regional and local data.
5068. Informacin sobre la aparicin de la Virgen de la Nube, el domingo 30 de diciembre
de 1696: habindose aplicado el rezo del santsimo rosario por la salud del ilustrsimo seor D.D.
Sancho de Andrade y Figueroa mi seor que enferm aquel ao de tabardillo y dolor de costado
llegndose a estar desahuciado de los mdicos, ARNAHIS, 12:18 (10 ago. 1970), 92-110.
5069. Informes de jesuitas en el Amazonas, 1660-1684, Francisco de Figueroa [et al.].
Iquitos, Per: IIAP-CETA, 1986. 365 p.
An anthology of Jesuit chronicles of their activities in the Upper Amazon Basin during the
seventeenth century. Well indexed.
5070. Izaguirre, Bernardino. Los Shuar de Zamora y la misin franciscana. Suca: Mundo
Shuar, 1978. 255 p.
Originally published as: t. 11 of authors Historia de las misiones franciscanas y narracin de
los progresos de la geografa en el Oriente del Per (1619-1921). Lima: Tall. Tip. de la
Penitencia, 1925.
Contents: Antecedentes histricos; Exploracin desde la Cuenca de Gualaquiza por el
Ilmo. obispo de la dicesis, padre Manuel Plaza, 1852; Descripcin epistolar de los padres Jos
Vidal y Luis Torra.
5071. Jaramillo, Miguel Angel. Cabildo Eclesistico de Cuenca: sus actividades desde la
fundacin de la dicesis y la integracin del primer cabildo eclesistico, 1788/1790-1944,
Revista catlica de la Dicesis de Cuenca, 30:6/7 (jun./jul. 1947) 240-257; 30:8/9 (ago./sept.
1947) 321-329; 30:10/12 (oct./dic. 1947) 276-290 [i.e., 376-390].
5072. Jaramillo, Miguel Angel. El X obispo de Cuenca: su labor pastoral, Revista del
Centro de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 30 (ene. 1938), 136-155.
Regarding Manuel Mara Plit y Laso.
5073. Jerves, Alfonso A. Apuntes histricos sobre las misiones dominicanas de Canelos y
Macas, Corona de Mara, 13:154 (sept. 1912), 379-406.
5074. Jerves, Alfonso A. La consagracin de la Repblica del Ecuador al Corazn Divino
de Jess, Corona de Mara, 24:271 (jun. 1923), 191-199; 24:272 (jul. 1923), 231-240; 24:273
(ago. 1923), 279-286; 24:274 (sept. 1923), 327-335; 24:275 (oct. 1923), 367-375; 24:276 (nov.
1923), 416-425; 24:277 (dic. 1923), 467-477; 25:278 (ene. 1924), 2-11; 25:279 (feb. 1924), 5766; 25:281 (abr. 1924), 121-129; 25:283 (jun. 1924), 197-206; 25:284 (jul. 1924), 241-246.
5075. Jerves, Alfonso A. El Convento de Nuestra Seora del Rosario de la Pea de Francia
de la Orden de Santo Domingo de Ibarra: sus orgenes histricos, Corona de Mara, 41:471
(abr. 1940), 151-154; 41:472 (mayo 1940), 197-199; 41:473 (jun. 1940), 244-248; 41:474 (jul.
1940), 281-285, 304; 41:475 (ago. 1940), 325-327; 41:476 (sept. 1940), 364-366; 41:477 (oct.
1940), 408-409; 41:478 (nov. 1940), 453-455; 41:479 (dic. 1940), 490-491; 42:480 (ene. 1941),
531-533; 42:481 (feb. 1941), 565-566, 572-575; 42:482 (mar. 1941), 605-606; 42:483 (abr.
1941), 649-652. 671; 42:484 (mayo 1941), 698-700; 42:485 (jun. 1941), 743-746; 42:487 (ago.
1941), 828-832; 42:488 (sept. 1941), 849-852; 42:489 (oct. 1941), 892-895; 42:491 (dic. 1941),
1000-1002; 43:492 (ene. 1942), 11-15; 43:493 (feb. 1942), 61-65; 43:494 (mar. 1942), 88-92;
43:495 (abr. 942), 124-128; 43:496 (mayo 1942), 157-161.
5076. Jerves, Alfonso A. El fundador de Santo Domingo en Santiago de Guayaquil,
Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 91-101.
5077. Jerves, Alfonso Mara. Las misiones dominicanas en el Oriente ecuatoriano, Oriente
dominicano, 1:4/5 abr./jun. 1928), 103-124; 1:6/7 (ago./oct. 1928), 137-152; 2:8 (mayo/jun.
1929), 7-14; 2:9 (jul./ago. 1929), 34-41; 2:10 (sept./oct. 1929), 73-80; 2:11 (nov./dic. 1929), 123129; 3:12 (ene./feb. 1930), 7-15; 3:13 (mar./abr. 1930), 51-57; 3:14 (mayo/jun. 1930), 103-107;
3:15 (jul./ago. 1930), 141-145; 3:16 (sept./oct. 1930), 175-179.
A history of Dominicans missions in the Upper Amazon from the 1500s through 1887.
5078. Los Jesuitas en el Ecuador, con textos de Alejandro Carrin [et al.], 1 ed. Quito: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana: Comisin Nacional Permanente de Conmemoraciones Cvicas, 1987.
176 p.
5079. Los Jesuitas quiteos del extraamiento, introduccin, seleccin y traducciones latinas
e italianas por Aurelio Espinosa Plit. Puebla: Edit. J.M. Cajica, Jr., 1960. 714 p. (Biblioteca
ecuatoriana mnima; [7])
5080. Jones, Clarence W. Radio: the New Missionary. Chicago: Moody, 1946. 147 p.
The early history of HCJB or Voz de los Andes by one of its founders.
5081. Jordan, William F. Ecuador, a Story of Mission Achievement. New York: The
Christian Alliance Publishing Company, 1926. 130 p.
5082. Jouanen, Jos. Historia de la Compaa de Jess en la antigua Provincia de Quito.
Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1941-1943. 2 v.
A comprehensive, well documented history of the Jesuits during the colonial period by a
twentieth-century Jesuit.
5083. Jouanen, Jos. Los jesuitas y el Oriente ecuatoriano, 1868-1898: monografa
histrica. Guayaquil: Edit. Arquidiocesana Justicia y Paz, 1977. 231 p.
5084. Jurado de Guerra, Guissela. Destino de los bienes de las iglesias de los jesuitas, luego
de su destierro, 1767, Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 12 (1992), 3548.
Examines the post-expulsion destination of the material goods of the Jesuits. Heavily
documented.
5085. Kanagy, Conrad L. The Formation and Development of a Protestant Conversion
Movement among the Highland Quichua of Ecuador, Sociological Analysis, 51:2 (Summer
1990), 205-217.
Examines the economic and social aspects of the Protestant conversion movement among the
indigenes of Chimborazo.
5086. Labaca Ugarte, Alejandro. Crnica huaorani. Quito: CICAME; Aguarico: Vicariato
Apostlico de Aguarico, 1988. 211 p.
The diary of a Capuchin missionary among the Huaorani.
5087. Lavall, Bernard. Crolisme et alternance: les augustins de Quito au XVIIe sicle,
Bulletin hispanique (Bordeaux), 71:3/4 (juillet/dc. 1979), 222-264.
5088. Lavall, Bernard. Recherches sur lapparition de la conscience crole dans la Viceroyaut du Prou: lantagonisme hispano-crole dans les ordres religieux (XVIeme-XVIIeme
siecles). Lille: Atelier national de reproduction des theses, 1982. 2 v.
Lavalles doctoral dissertation. See vol. 1, p. 80-88, 474-509, 561-589, and 607-616 for
discussion of the internecine fighting among Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and
Mercedarians in Quito regarding alternating governance by peninsulars and creoles.
5089. Len, Agustn M. Relacin histrica de los pueblos de Santo Domingo del Tigre, de
Santa Rosa del Canambo y de San Jacinto, Oriente dominicano, 10:56/57 (nov./dic. 1937), 188193.
5090. Liefeld, Olive F. Unfolding Destinies: New Perspectives on Peter Fleming and the
Auca Mission. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing Corporation, 1992. 224 p.
5091. Lpez Ruz, Sebastin Jos. Relacin de las misiones de los Ros Caquet y
Putumayo, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 35:85 (ene./jun. 1955), 129-139.
5092. Lpez Sanvicente, Lorenzo. La misin del Napo. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad
Central, 1894. 96 p.
5093. Luis Luis, Luciniano. La misin carmelita en Sucumbios. Quito: Abya-Yala: ISAMIS
Misin Carmelita, 1994. 588 p.
A detailed, well researched, and at the same time highly critical--in the negative sense--history
of the Carmelite Mission in Sucumbios, which dates from 1928. Interestingly enough the author
is himself a Carmelite.
5094. Madera, Luis F. Dicesis de Ibarra: su comienzo azaroso y dilatado, 1865-1893,
Revista del Ncleo de Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:24 (jul. 1979), 7898.
5095. Magalli, Joseph M. Coleccin de cartas sobre las misiones dominicanas del Oriente,
2 ed. Quito, 1890. 73 p.
5097. Maldonado, Jos. Relacin del descubrimiento del Ro de las Amazonas, llamado
Maran, hecho por medio de los religiosos de la Provincia de San Francisco de Quito. Quito:
Impr. del Gobierno, 1942. 32 p. (Biblioteca Amazonas; 5)
Part of the mid-seventeenth-century debate between Franciscans and Jesuits over primacy in
the Oriente. See also items 4964 and 4999.
5098. Mancero Villagmez, Luis. Breve resea de los trabajos de la Compaa de Jess en
el Ecuador, Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 383-384
Includes seven additional, unnumbered, out of sequence pages.
5099. Maran, Esteban. Relacin del Obispado de Quito, Revista, Instituto de Historia
Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 1 (1974), 165-177.
A 1598 list of ecclesiastical benefices, their holders, and annual rents.
5100. Marn, Ceslao de J. Monografa sinttica de la Misin Dominicana de Canelos y gua
del Cantn Pastaza . Quito: Oriente Dominicano, 1934. 118 p.
5101. Maroni, Pablo. Noticias autnticas del famoso Ro Maran y misin apostlica de la
Compaa de Jess de la Provincia de Quito en los dilatados bosques de dicho ro, escribalas
por los aos de 1738, un misionero de la misma Compaa, Pablo Maroni; seguidas de las
relaciones de los P.P. A. de Zrate y J. Magnin (1735-1740); edicin crtica, introduccin e
ndices, Jean Pierre Chaumeil. Iquitos, Per: IIAP-CETA, 1988. 565 p.
A scholarly set of three coeval accounts.
5102. Mateos, Francisco. Un manuscrito indito del P. Bernardo Recio, Missionalia
hispnica, 17:50 (mayo/ago. 1960), 137-193.
For the text of the manuscrito indito see item 5161.
5103. Mateos, Francisco. El padre Bernardo Recio en Quito, Missionalia hispnica, 20:60
(sept./dic. 1963), 351-382; 21:62 (mayo/ago. 1964), 225-248; 22:63 (ene./abr. 1965), 227-254.
5104. Mateos, Francisco. Primer Concilio de Quito (1570), Missionalia hispnica, 25:74
(mayo/ago. 1968), 193-244; 25:75 (dic. 1968), 319-368.
A solid study of the erection and early years of the Diocese of Quito. Includes the text of the
first Council of Quito.
5105. Maynard, Kent A. Christianity and Religion: Evangelical Identity and Socio-Cultural
Organization in Urban Ecuador. 1981. 294 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Indiana.
5106. Maynard, Kent A. On Protestants and Pastoralists: the Segmentary Nature of SocioCultural Organization, Man, 23:1 (Mar. 1988), 101-117.
See also Maynards Protestant Theories and Anthropological Knowledge: Convergent
Models in the Ecuadorian Sierra, Cultural Anthropology, 8:2 (May 1993), 246-267.
5107. Meja, Humberto M. Rasgos histricos acerca del pueblo de Pacayacu, Oriente
dominicano, 1:2 (dic. 1927), 32-34.
5108. Memorias de frontera: misioneros en el Ro Aguarico (1954-1984). Quito: Vicariato
Apostlico de Aguarico, 1989. 319 p.
5109. Mercado, Pedro de. Historia de la Provincia del Nuevo Reino y Quito de la Compaa
de Jess. Bogot: Edit. A.B.C., 1957. 4 v. (Biblioteca de la Presidencia de Colombia; 35-38)
The first and as of the late 1990s, the only edition of this posthumously published lateseventeenth century quasi-history of the Jesuits in the Audiencias of Santa F de Bogot and
Quito by a Riobamba born member of the order (1620-1701). Based on numerous primary
sources.
5110. Merino, Luis. Ensayo crtico sobre las Noticias secretas de Amrica y el clero
colonial. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas, Instituto Santo Toribio de
Mogrovejo, 1956. 256 p.
Originally published as: Las Noticias secretas de Amrica y el clero colonial (1720-1765),
Missionalia hispnica, 13:37 (1956), 5-82; 13:38 (1956), 193-254; 13:39 (1956), 385-452.
Attempts to rebut the accusations made by Juan and Ulloa regarding the lax and self serving
pastors of the highlands, for the text of which see item 7330. A less than objective account
inasmuch as Merino, himself a priest, undertook to demonstrate that Juan and Ulloa had
exaggerated the shortcomings of the clergy, especially insofar as the mistreatment of indigenes is
concerned. Merino maintains that whatever abuses occurred may be attributed to dificultades de
orden econmico. His biases become even more obvious when he, a Spaniard and therefore a
peninsular, stresses that the majority of the secular and regular clergy in the eighteenth century
were creoles and that even the incidents of abuse of native Andeans, rightfully treated as minors
according to Merino, were far and few between. Nonetheless, worth reading for the archival data
brought to bear on the themes treated. See also item 259.
5111. Miranda Ribadeneira, Francisco. Crisis en las misiones y mutilacin territorial.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1986. 200 p. (Coleccin histrica; 10)
Items 5116-5122 are indispensable studies of the history of the Mercedarians during the
colonial period. They are detailed, multifaceted, and well researched. Furthermore, they
reproduce many of the sources upon which they are based.
5123. Montalvo, Francisco Antonio de. Resumen de la historia de los dominicos del
Ecuador, en los primeros ciento cncuenta aos, Corona de Mara, 23:261 (ene./ago. 1922), 2949.
5124. Monteros, Raimundo M. Narracin histrica y compendiosa del pueblo misional de
Arapicos. Quito: Chimborazo, 1938. 70 p.
5125. Moradillo, Santiago. El vicariato de Zamora (1888-1957). Loja: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Loja, 1966. 125 p.
5126. Morn, Abelardo. El obispado de Ibarra: disertacin histrica. Quito: Edit. Labor,
1932. 30 p.
5127. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Las doctrinas de la Audiencia de Quito en los siglos XVI y
XVII, Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 11 (1991), 21-112.
A data rich monograph on Indian missions and parishes in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries.
5128. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Los jesuitas en Barbacoas, Revista del Instituto de Historia
Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 12 (1992), 21-34.
Add new data to the establishment of the Jesuit mission and Indian pueblo in Barbacoas in the
1630s. Based on research in the Archivo del Cabildo Metropolitano de Quito.
5129. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Observancia religiosa del pueblo de Quito en 1797, La Cultura
en la historia (Quito: Editora Nacional, 1992, p. 33-51. (Coleccin nuestra patria es Amrica,
editor general, Jorge Nuez Snchez ; vol. 8)
A quantitative study of religious observance among quiteos, specifically of their compliance
with the canonical injunction to confess and to take communion at least once a year during the
Easter season. Based on the status animi of 1797. See also item 5404.
5130. Muratorio, Blanca. Etnicidad, evangelizacin y protesta en el Ecuador: una
perspectiva antropolgica, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo [para el] Centro de Investigaciones y
Estudios Socio-Econmicas, 1982. 109 p.
A fascinating collection of articles on ethnicity, Protestant evangelization, and class
consciousness in central Chimborazo, especially in the Lake Colta area. Includes Spanish
version of items 5131 and 5132. Muratorio argues that the conversion of the majority of the
indigenous people or peoples--whether or not we are dealing with a distinct ethnic group, perhaps
a survivor, albeit somewhat submerged, of the pre-Hispanic period, remains to be determined-has been a response to the break-up of the hacienda, a reaction to the Catholic Churchs historic
support of the hacienda system, and a reaction against racial domination.
5131. Muratorio, Blanca. Protestantism and Capitalism Revisited, in the Rural Highlands of
Ecuador, Journal of Peasant Studies, 8:1 (Oct. 1980), 37-60.
Published anonymously. Know to have been authored by the Abb Franois Pierre.
Translated by Magalli, also a Dominican missionary.
5153. Proao, Luis Octavio. Diccionario biogrfico de ilustres mercedarios ligados a la
Provincia de Quito desde 1534 a 1981. Cuenca: Offset Color Cuenca, 1982. 220 p.
5154. Proao, Luis Octavio. Historia general de la Provincia Mercedaria de Quito,
Ecuador. Cuenca: Edit. Universidad Catlica, 1984. 302 p.
5155. Proao, Luis Octavio. Los mercedarios en Cuenca. Cuenca: L.O. Proao, 1990. xviii,
492 p.
5156. Proao, Luis Octavio. Miscelnea histrica. Ibarra: Grficas Hernndez, 1986. 2 v.
Consists of essays on various aspects of the history of the Mercedarians in Ecuador. Vol. 1
subtitled: Miscelnea histrica en el ao jubilar de San Pedro Nolasco; vol. 2: 750 aos del
trnsito de San Pedro Nolasco a la gloria.
5157. Proao, Luis Octavio. Nuestra Seora de la Merced en la colonia y en la Repblica
del Ecuador. Quito: L.O. Proao, 1993. 806 p.
A history of the cult of Our Lady of Mercy, especially in those cities where the Mercedarians
established convents and churches, from early colonial times through the twentieth century. Well
researched.
5158. Proao Villalba, Lenidas E. Concientizacin, evangelizacin, poltica. Salamanca:
Ediciones Sgueme, 1985. 186 p.
5159. Proao Villalba, Lenidas E. Monseor Lenidas Proao, el profeta del pueblo:
seleccin de sus textos. Quito: Fundacin Pueblo Indio del Ecuador; Ciudad; FEPP, CEDEP,
1990. 410 p.
5160. La Provincia de San Francisco de Quito: resumen histrico, Resumen histrico del
Ecuador, 1830-1930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 345-359.
5161. Recio, Bernardo. Compendiosa relacin de la cristiandad de Quito, edicin, prlogo,
notas y apndices por Carlos Garca Goldaraz. Madrid: Instituto Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo,
1947. 695 p.
An eighteenth-century chronicle of Jesuit missions in Maynas on the one hand and a coeval
description of Ecuador on the other, especially of the state of the church. Recio (1714-1791) was
stationed in Ecuador between 1750 and1760 and again between 1763 and 1765. For
appreciations and evaluations of his exceptionally detailed account see items 5102, 5103, and
7009.
5162. Reconstitucin del Obispado de Mainas: documentos oficiales, Domingo Angulo.
Lima: Impr. del Estado, 1913. ix, 153 p.
5163. Reed, Ierold F. A Componential Analysis of the Ecuadorian Protestant Church.
1974. xviii, 219 leaves. Thesis (D. Miss.)--Fuller Theological Seminary.
5164. Relacin, copia y descripcin de esta Provincia de San Francisco de Quito, Museo
Histrico, 14:41/42 (ago. 1962), 12-41.
5173. Los Salesianos y la Amazonia, Juan Bottasso, compilador, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones
Abya-Yala, 1993. 3 v.
Contents: vol. 1, Relaciones de viajes, 1893-1909; vol. 2, Relaciones etnogrficas y
geogrficas; vol. 3, Actividades y presencias.
5174. San Jacinto y Riofro, Santiago de. Noticia o relacin ... sobre la misin de los indios
infieles de Copataza, como misionero de ella, Corona de Mara, 13:146 (ene. 1912), 10-23.
Covers the years 1751-1826.
5175. Snchez Rangel de Fayas, Hiplito Antonio. Despedida del obispo de Mainas:
fragmentos de una pastoral escrita en Mainas en la fuga de su primer obispo: documentos.
Madrid: Impr. de E. Aguado, 1825. 183, 14, 22, 37 p.
5176. Santana, Roberto. Le protestantisme chez les indiens du Chimborazo en Equateur,
Problmes dAmrique Latine, 86 (1987), 97-108.
Maintains that the post 1970 growth of Protestantism among the Indians of Chimborazo has
bolstered ethnic identity, political participation, and socioeconomic conditions. For a different
view see items 5130-5132.
5177. Sarzosa Flores, Vicente. Una luz brill en la Amazonia. [Quito?: s.n.], 1987. 96 p.
An adulatory account of Salesian activities in the Province of Morona-Santiago.
5178. Snodos de Quito del siglo XVI, Revista, Instituto de Historia Eclesistica
Ecuatoriana, 3:3/4 (1978), 1-200.
Publishes texts of the first three synods (1570, 1594, and 1596) of the Diocese of Quito.
Includes explanatory notes by Jos Mara Vargas. See also Flix Carmona Morenos edition of
the Snodos de Quito (1594) y Loja (1596). Madrid: Revista agustiniana, 1996. 244 p.
5179. Solano, Vicente. Cartas al doctor Jos Mara Lazo: en los aos de 1840 y 1856,
publicadas y anotadas por Manuel Mara Plit. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1902. 337 p.
Reprinted in Solanos Epistolario (item 5185).
5180. Solano, Vicente. Epistolario, prlogo y notas de Agustn Cueva Tamariz. Cuenca:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1953. 2 v. (liv, 585 p.)
Reprints items 5185, 5187, and Correspondencia epistolar de Fr. Vicente Solano con el Rvdo.
P. Fr. Buenaventura Figueroa, O.P., prlogo de Jos Mara Vargas (Quito, 1935; 71 p.).
Includes a solid introduction and useful notes by Cueva Tamariz.
5181. Solano, Vicente. Obras. Barcelona: Tip. la Hormiga de Oro, 1892-1895. 4 v.
Solano freely expressed himself on many topics of the day, not just on church matters. He
was a journalist as well as a polemicist; in fact Solano edited and produced the first newspaper of
Cuenca, El Eco del Azuay (1828). For the bibliographic particulars of his output see: Juan
Cordero Iigez and Bernarda Crespo Cordero, Bibliografa azuaya (item 51); and Miguel Daz
Cueva, Bibliografa de Fray Vicente Solano (item 61).
5182. Solano, Vicente. Otras cartas ... al Dr. Jos Antonio Eguiguren, publicadas en La
Unin literaria por Manuel Mara Plit. Cuenca: Tip. La Repblica, 1912. 34 p.
Reprinted in item 5185.
5183. Sono, Carlos. Nuestra Seora del Quinche. Quito: Tip. La Rpida, 1903. v, 238 p.
5184. Spiller, Maximiliano. Historia de la Misin Josefina del Napo, 1922-1974. Quito:
Artes Grficas, 1974-. <1> v.
5185. Stoll, David. Is Latin America Turning Protestant?: the Politics of Evangelical
Growth. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. xxi, 424 p.
Includes a chapter on World Vision in Ecuador (p. 266-304).
5186. Swanson, Jeffrey. Echoes of the Call: Identity and Ideology among American
Missionaries in Ecuador. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. viii, 204 p.
Although this work ultimately has something to say about the life and work of evangelical
Protestant missionaries and their families in the HCJB compound in Quito, its importance lies
not so much in what Swanson has to say about American missionary activities in Ecuador, but
rather in the insight he provides as to the mentality of Protestant missionaries and indirectly as to
why their writings about Ecuador and Ecuadorians are usually surrealistic.
5187. Tapia Tamayo, Amlcar. Pueblos y doctrinas de la antigua Provincia de los Pastos, 1
ed. Tulcn: Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Investigaciones Histricas y Geogrficas, 1992. 124 p.
Reconstructs the colonial period history of Indian pueblos of Tulcn, Huaca, Tusa, and Puntal,
all which as parishes were entrusted to the Mercedarians, in what would become the Province of
Carchi. Exceptionally well researched. Incorporates authors Doctrinas de la antigua provincia
de los Pastos, Memoria, Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Investigaciones Histricas y Geogrficas, 2
(1991/1992) 211-260. Tapia Tamayo, one of Ecuadors new, professionally trained historians, is
rapidly emerging as an authority on the past of his native province (Carchi), the study of which
had been neglected.
5188. Tern, Enrique. Los RR.PP. agustinos en el Ecuador, El Ecuador en cien aos de
independencia (item 1927), vol. 1, p. 159-181.
Reprinted and updated as: Los padres agustinos en el Ecuador, Resumen histrico del
Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 385-404.
5189. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Los claustros 1845-1851, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 64:137/138 (ene./dic. 1981), 9-22.
5190. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Un conflicto episcopal: el caso del Colegio de Tulcn, Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 52:113 (ene./jun. 1969), 98-113.
Analyzes the 1896-1897 dispute regarding jurisdiction over Tulcn between Gonzlez Surez,
then the bishop of Ibarra, and Ezequiel Moreno Daz, the bishop of Pasto, provoked by the
alleged liberalism of the Colegio Bolvar of Tulcn.
5191. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Las dioceses de 1845 a 1851, Boletn de la Academia Nacional
de Historia, 61:131/132 (ene./dic. 1978), 219-258.
5204. Vargas, Jos Mara. Estado actual de las misiones dominicanas en el Oriente
ecuatoriano, Oriente dominicano, 5:28/29 (sept./dic. 1932), 154-164.
5205. Vargas, Jos Mara. Historia de la Iglesia en el Ecuador durante el patronato espaol.
Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1962. 559 p.
Incredible as it may seem, the only diachronically complete account of the history of the
Catholic Church during the colonial period. Thematically anachronistic, however.
5206. Vargas, Jos Mara. Historia de la Provincia de Santa Catalina, Virgen y Mrtir, de
Quito, de la Orden de Predicadores. Quito: Tip. y Encuad. Salesianas, 1942. 287 p.
See also: Vargass Historia de la Provincia Dominicana del Ecuador, siglos XVI y XVII.
Quito: Edit. Royal, 1986. 377 p.
5207. Vargas, Jos Mara. Historia de la Provincia Dominicana del Ecuador en el siglo XIX.
Quito: Editora Royal, 1982. 300 p.
5208. Vargas, Jos Mara. Nuestra Seora del Rosario en el Ecuador. Quito: Artes Grficas
Seal, 1983. 137 p.
5209. Vargas Ugarte, Ruben. Historia de la Iglesia en el Per. Lima: R. Vargas Ugarte,
1953-1962. 5 v.
Includes several chapters and sections of chapters on Dioceses of Quito and Cuenca during the
colonial period.
5210. Vsconez Tobar, Gabriel. Apuntes histricos acerca del Seminario Mayor de San Jos
de la Arquidicesis de Quito. Quito: Impr. de El Comercio, 1907. iii, 98 p.
5211. Velasco, Juan de. Historia moderna del Reyno de Quito y crnica de la Provincia de
la Compaa de Jess del mismo reyno ..., publicacin dirigida por Raul Reyes y Reyes. Quito:
Impr. de la Caja del Seguro, 1941. vi, 427 p. (Biblioteca Amazonas; vol. 8 [i.e., 9])
A history of the Jesuits in Ecuador through 1685. Previously unpublished. Only vol. 1
published. Not to be confused with Velascos Historia del Reino de Quito (see item 1529).
5212. Vicariato apostolico di Mendez e Gualaquiza: (tra i Jivaros del Ecuador). Torino:
Societa Editrice Internazionale, 1925. 111 p.
5213. Vickers, William T. The Jesuits and the SIL: External Policies for Ecuadors
Tucanoans through Three Centuries, Is God an American?: An Anthropological Perspective on
the Missionary Work of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, edited by Sren Hvalkof and Peter
Aaby (Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and Survival International
(IWGIA); London: Survival International, 1981), p. 50-61.
A comparative study of Jesuit missionary attempts to impose external models on the Sionas /
Secoyas in the 1700s and those of the Summer Institute of Linguistics in the second half of the
1900s. Vickers believes that the efforts of the SIL will ultimately be successful whereas those of
the Jesuits failed, but that the SILs success will be the harbinger of the loss of a way of life.
5214. Villalba F., Jorge. Documentos, diarios, memoriales, cartas y mapas del P. Samuel
Fritz, S.J.: misionero del Amazonas, 1689-1709, Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica
Ecuatoriana, 12 (1992), 55-94.
The importance of this somewhat eclectic piece lies in its reproduction of the text of two
manuscripts by Father Fritz, the 1689 Compendio de la bajada por el Ro de Amazonas ... and
the 1692 Memorial que present el Padre Samuel, al Excmo. Sr. virrey conde de la Monclova,
con el mapa del Ro Maran o Amazonas ...
5215. Villalba F., Jorge. Los religiosos en la evangelizacin del Reino de Quito en el siglo
XVI: mtodos introducidos por los jesuitas, 1586-1650, Revista del Instituto de Historia
Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 11 (1991), 151-301.
A detailed, well researched account of the missionary labors of the Jesuits in the Oriente
during the first half of the colonial period. Somewhat tendentious, however, inasmuch as the
author, himself a Jesuit, maintains that his predecessors did not impose Christianity, Western
civilization, and sedentary life but that la aceptacin de la fe cristiana y de su representante, el
misionero, es libre y voluntaria, de parte de las tribus amaznicas and that el indgena acepta
dejar su vida nmada y formar pueblos (authors emphasis).
5216. Villalba F., Jorge. Los snodos quitenses del Obispo Luis Lpez de Sols: 1594 y
1596, Revista, Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 3/4 (1978), 69-198.
Includes the texts in Spanish of the synods of 1594 and 1596.
5217. Villass Tern, Enrique M. La evangelizacin del indgena en el Quito hispnico.
Quito: Grf. Iberia, 1987. xix, 224 p.
Superficial and tendentious.
5218. Villegas, Juan. La Congregacin o Esclavitud Nuestra Seora de Loreto, Quito, siglos
XVII y XVIII. Montevideo: Universidad Catlica Damaso A. Larranaga, Departamento de
Investigacin y Estudios Superiores de Historia Americana, 1985. 48 leaves.
5219. Visin Mundial: evaluacin y seguimiento en algunas comunidades indgenas de la
sierra ecuatoriana, investigacin, CEPLAES. Quito: Ministerio de Bienestar Social, Oficina
Nacional de Asuntos Indgenas, Centro de Planificacin y Estudios Sociales; Abya-Yala, 1984.
iv, 418 p.
A set of studies of social conflict resultant from development projects and proselytization by
World Vision International, an evangelical Protestant agency, in four highland villages.
5220. Vivanco, Carlos A. Informe de las misiones de los padres franciscanos en Oriente,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 21:57 (ene./jun. 1941), 79-105.
5221. Wallis, Ethel Emily. Aucas Downriver: Dayumas Story Today. New York: Harper
and Row, 1973. x, 126 p.
5222. Wallis, Ethel Emily; and Maria Angela Bennet. The Dayuma Story: Life under Auca
Spears. New York: Harper, 1960. 288 p.
Item 5222 updates 5221. The story of Rachel Saint (d. 1994), a sister (biological) of one of
the five Protestant missionaries martyred by Huaorani, and of Dayuma, a Huaorani woman,
converted by Rachel.
As of July 1997, the latest version was: Dayuma, Life under Waorani Spears: A Tragedy that
Shocked the World, a Vision that Refused to Die. Seattle: YMAM Publishing, 1996. 205 p.
5223. Wallis, Katherine MacGregor. Heads You Lose. New York: Carlton Press, 1960. 161
p.
5224. Yerovi, Jos Mara. Cartas pastorales. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1954.
104 p.
5225. Zaldumbide, Gonzalo. El nuevo libro de Tobar Donoso y breves consideraciones en
torno. Quito: Edit. La Unin, 1954. 40 p.
A commentary on Julio Tobar Donosos La Iglesia, modeladora de la nacionalidad (item
5192).
5226. Zambrano Palacios, Alberto. Labor misionera en el Oriente: la misin dominicana en
la regin de Pastaza . Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1972. 237 p.
5227. Zawadzky C., Alfonso. Viajes misioneros del R.P. Fray Fernando de Jess Larrea,
franciscano, 1700-1773. Cali, Colombia: Impr. Bolivariana, 1945. 326 p.
5228. Aguilar-Monsalve, Luis Antonio. Breaking the Bonds of Church and State: The New
Religious Freedom in Ecuador, Thought, 63:250 (Sept. 1988), 236-249.
5229. Aguilar-Monsalve, Luis Antonio. The Separation of Church and State: The
Ecuadoran Case, Thought, 59:233 (June 1984), 205-218.
Items 5235 and 5236 review the history of relations between the Catholic Church and the
Ecuadorian state from 1830 through Vatican II and the Concordat of 1984.
5230. Albornoz Peralta, Oswaldo. Historia de la accin clerical en el Ecuador: desde la
conquista hasta nuestros das, 2 ed. Quito: Edit. Solitierra, 1977. 301 p.
5231. Albornoz Peralta, Oswaldo. La oposicin del clero a la independencia americana.
Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1975. 301 p.
Items 5230 and 5231 are highly polemic and not altogether factually reliable. Important,
however, because they exemplify extent to which anticlerical passions have influenced politics
and inflamed scholarship in Ecuador.
5232. Ayala, Segundo F. Catolicismo y poltica. Quito: Edit. Plenitud, 1944. 61 p.
Published conjointly with: Carlos Mara de la Torre, El clero ecuatoriano y la poltica (item
5247).
5260. Haro Alvear, Silvio Luis. El Modus Vivendi ecuatoriano ante el derecho pblico,
Oriente dominicano, 11:58/59 (ene./feb. 1928), 231-234; 11:60/61 (mar./abr. 1938), 263-266;
11:62/63 (mayo/jun. 1938), 303-307; 11:66/67 (sept./oct. 1938), 383-387; 11:68/69 (nov./dic.
1938), 416-420; 12:70/71 (ene./feb. 1939), 26-28; 12:72/73 (mar./abr. 1939), 61-63; 12:74/75
(mayo/jun. 1939), 99-101; 12:77 (ago. 1939), 157-158; 12:79 (oct. 1939), 223-224, 228.
5261. Jaramillo, Alvarado Po. La doctrina liberal (hombres e ideas en el Ecuador): don
Abelardo Moncayo y su poca. Quito: Edit. Quito, 1923. 80 p.
Examines the separation of church and state under Alfaro and his ideological collaborator
Moncayo from Conservative Party and pro-Catholic points of view and the differential reaction
of the clergy to depoliticization of the church.
5262. King, William Martin. Ecuadorian Church and State Relations Under Garca Moreno,
1859-1863. 1974. vi, 402 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin.
5263. King, William M. La Iglesia ecuatoriana y las relaciones con el Estado durante el
gobierno de Garca Moreno, 1859-1863, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia (Quito),
58:125 (ene./jun. 1975), 162-186; 58:126 (jul./dic. 1975), 120-133;60:129/130 (ene./dic. 1977),
185-214; 62:133-134 (ene./dic. 1979), 47-66.
N.B. Item 5263 is an incomplete translation of item 5262.
5264. Larrea Holgun, Juan. Del patronato al Modus Vivendi: relaciones de la Iglesia y el
Estado en el Ecuador, Revista, Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 2 (1976), 7-23.
A prcis of item 5265.
5265. Larrea Holgun, Juan. La Iglesia y el Estado en el Ecuador, 2 ed., corr. y aum. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, 1988. 262 p.
Originally published: Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1954. xi, 168 p. A
solid study of the Concordat of 1862 and the Modus Vivendi of 1937.
5266. Larrea Holgun, Juan. Relaciones Iglesia-Estado en el Ecuador, Simposio
Sudamericano Alemn sobre Iglesia y Estado: estudios presentados en las Quintas Jornadas
Teolgicas de la P.U.C.E. organizadas en colaboracin con el Instituto de Derecho Eclesistico
del Estado en Bonn, Quito, 4-8 junio 1979, editado por Julio Tern Dutari, (Quito: Ediciones de
la Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1980), p. 343-358.
5267. Lernoux, Penny. Cry of the People. New York: Penguin Books, 1991. 535 p.
Reprint with a new after word by George Black; originally published: New York: Doubleday,
1980.
Includes a chapter (five) on the Riobamba incident and a running discussion of efforts of
Monseigneur Proao and like minded clerics to promote social justice in Ecuador.
5268. Loor, Wilfrido. Los jesuitas en el Ecuador: su ingreso y expulsin, 1850-1852. Quito:
Prensa Catlica, 1959. vii, 248 p.
5269. Lpez, Felicsimo. Historia de una excomunin en el Ecuador. New York: American
Bank Note Company, 1909. x, 327 p.
Lpez, an intransigent Liberal who backed the state in its differences with the Catholic
Church, recounts the circumstances of his excommunication in 1890 by Bishop Schumacher of
Portoviejo, and the political consequences thereof (e.g., the Senate refused to allow him to take
his seat in 1894).
5270. Lpez, Nicols F. Antes y despus del Modus Vivendi. Quito: Impr. Fernndez, 1938.
51 p.
5271. Matovelle, Julio. Principios generales de derecho pblico eclesistico. Cuenca: Impr.
del Clero, 1892. xvi, 283 p.
A statement of the traditional position of the Catholic Church towards lay matters and the
state with particular reference to Ecuador.
5272. Miranda Ribadeneira, Francisco. Garca Moreno y la Compaa de Jess: historial e
interpretativa. Quito: Impr. y Eds. Lexigrama, 1976. 120 p.
5273. Muoz Vega, Pablo. Fe y poltica: dilogos con el Cardenal Muoz Vega, entrevista
Gonzalo Chvez. Quito: Radio Catlica Nacional, 1986. 242 p.
5274. Peralta, Jos. Aos de lucha. Cuenca: Ncleo del Azuay de la Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1973 [i.e., 1974-1976]. 3 v.
5275. Peralta, Jos. La cuestin religiosa y el poder pblico en el Ecuador. Quito: Tip. de la
Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1901. iv, 70 p.
Although a Liberal, Peralta initially advocated a modus vivendi with the Catholic Church.
Subsequently, however, he became more critical of and opposed to the church as an institution
(see the preceding item).
5276. Prez Torres, Pedro Pablo. Federico Gonzlez Surez: en el obispado de Ibarra, frente
a los problemas polticos y sociales del pas. Ibarra: Impr. Municipal Pedro Moncayo, 1944.
171 p.
5277. Roncagliolo, Rafael; and Fernando Reyes Matta. Iglesia, prensa y militares: el caso
Riobamba y los obispos latinoamericanos. Mxico: Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios
Transnacionales, 1978. 225 p.
5278. Snchez, Ricardo A. La venerada memoria de Gonzlez Surez: reparos a un
detractor. Quito: Impr. Americana, 1939. 294 p.
Defends the archbishop-historian against Wilfrido Loor (see item 2489).
5279. Sartorelli, P.L. Bautismo y matrimonio: estudio sobre las leyes civiles que se refieren
a la administracin de estos sacramentos. Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1956. 12 p.
Not intended to be divulged publicly: Pro manuscripto (reservado para el Vble. clero)-Cover. Recapitulates the Catholic Churchs objections to the Ley del Registro Civil (1901) and
the Ley del matrionio civil (1902).
5280. Schumacher, Pedro. Teocracia o demoniocracia?, Cristo o Lucifer?: quin
vencer?, quin como Dios!, 2 ed. Friburg: B. Herder, 1897. 109 p.
5293. Vargas, Jos Mara. El Libertador Simn Bolvar y la Iglesia ecuatoriana, Revista de
la Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 14:44 (abr. 1986), 79-116.
5294. Vzquez, Honorato. Contra la Ley de patronato. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1899. 28 p.
5295. Vzquez, Honorato. Cuestiones religiosas en el Senado de 1904. Quito: Impr. del
Clero, 1904. 54 p.
5296. Vzquez, Honorato. Defensa de los intereses catlicos en el Ecuador. Cuenca: Impr.
Gutenberg, 1908. 170 p.
Items 5295 and 5296 delineate the authors support of church interests in the Congresses of
1899 and 1904.
HISTORY OF MEDICINE
The history of medicine has been extensively cultivated in Ecuador. A quite detailed, more or
less reliable, albeit now somewhat dated account of medical developments and the history of
epidemics in the country can be had from Gualbeto Arcoss La medicina en el Ecuador (item
5303), Virgilio Paredes Borjas Historia de la medicina en el Ecuador (item 5372), and Juan
Jos Samaniegos Cronologa mdica ecuatoriana (item 5377). Not surprisingly, Arcos,
Paredes Borja, and Samaneigo are stronger on Quito and its hinterland than they are on the rest of
the country. But a good appreciation of medical developments and the history of epidemics in
Cuenca and its district is available through studies of Csar Hermida Piedra (items 5333 and
5336), and Manuel Agustn Landvar (items 5342-5346), and in the port city and the centralsouth coast in works of Julio Alvarez C. (item 5301), Julio Estrada Ycaza (items 5313-5317),
Pedro Jos Huerta (items 5339 and 5340), Mauro Madero Moreira (item 5356), Ronn F. Pineo
(item 6858), and J. Gabriel Pino Roca (item 5376).
Furthermore, quasi-complete bibliographies of medical materials published in and on the
country exist. In addition to the bibliographies by Eduardo Estrella (item 72), Mauro Madeira
Moreira and Francisco Parra Gil (item 130), Carlos A. Rolando (item 168), see those by Rodrigo
Fierro Bentez, Catlogo del libro ecuatoriano de medicina: obras seleccionadas, siglo XVIII
hasta 1995 (Quito: Academia Ecuatoriana de Medicina, 1995; 169 p.) and Bibliografa cientfica
medica ecuatoriana publicada en el exterior (Quito) Casa de la cultura ecuatoriana "Benjamn
Carrin", 1995; 422 p. [Coleccin: Bibliografa cientfica ecuatoriana; no.1]).
A significant pre-1996 study that should have been included in this section is Doublas H.
Ubelakers The Biological Impact of European Contact in Ecuador, In the Wake of Contact:
Biological Responses to Conquest, editors Clark Spencer Larsen [and] George R. Miller (New
York: Wiley-Liss, 1994), p. 147-160, in which Ubelaker, a physical anthropologist, examines the
biological consequences of the Spanish conquest, drawing on twenty years of research on the
skeletal remains of pre- and post-conquest occupants of the future Ecuador.
5297. Albarracn, Agustn. De los Aires, aguas y lugares hipocrticos a las Reflexiones de
Eugenio Espejo, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 1185-1203.
Delineates and examines the intellectual antecedents of Espejos Reflexiones sobre la virtud,
importancia y conveniencia que propone don Francisco Gil ... en su disertacin fsico qumica
acerca de un mtodo seguro para preservar a los pueblos de las viruelas (1785).
Item 5297 was also published as La medicina colonial en el siglo XVIII: de los Aires, aguas
y lugares hipocrticos a las Reflexiones de Eugenio Espejo, Asclepio, 39:2 (1987), 201-215.
5298. Alchon, Suzanne Austin. Disease in Colonial Ecuador: a Comparative Study of
Health, Illness, and Healing in Native Andean Society before and after the Spanish Conquest,
Proceedings of the International Congress on the Great Maritime Discoveries and World Health
(Lisboa: Escola Nacional de Sade Pblica; Orden dos Mdicos; Instituto de Sintra, 1991), p.
155-185.
5299. Alchon, Suzanne Austin. Disease, Population, and Public Health in EighteenthCentury Quito, Secret Judgments of God: Old World Disease in Colonial Spanish America,
edited by Noble David Cook and W. George Lowell (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1991), p. 159-182.
Both items 5298 and 5299 are excerpts from Alchons Native Society and Disease in Colonial
Ecuador (item 5300).
5300. Alchon, Suzanne Austin. Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. viii, 151 p.
A revision of the authors Ph.D. thesis: The Effects of Epidemic Disease in Colonial
Ecuador, presented under a different name, Suzanne Austin Browne. 1984. xiv, 221 leaves.
Duke University.
A not altogether satisfactory study inasmuch as the author makes gratuitous assumptions
regarding the identity and impact of pre- and post-conquest epidemics and as to the size of the
pre-conquest population of the north-central highlands, the region to which this work is
delimited. In this regard, it should be noted that Native Society and Disease is almost as much a
study of the historical demography of the region as it is of epidemics and their impact during the
colonial period.
Also published in Spanish as: Sociedad indgena y enfermedad en Ecuador colonial, 1a ed. en
espaol. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1996. 226 p.
5301. Alvarez C., Julio. Historia de la medicina tropical ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Edit.
Arquidiocesana Justicia y Paz, 1980-1987. 4 v. in 5.
Contents: [1] Amebiasis; 2, Fiebre recurrente, strongyloidiasis, toxoplasmosis; 3, Enfermedad
de Chagas en Ecuador; 4, Historia de la malaria; Suplemento del vol. 4, Epidemia de coaque. El
ms grande error de la medicina del siglo XX se produjo en Guayaquil.
5302. Archivos de historia de la medicina. Cuenca: Departamento de Difusin Cultural de la
Universidad de Cuenca, 1984. 308 p.
5303. Arcos, Gualberto. La medicina en el Ecuador. Quito: Tip. L.I. Fernndez, 1933. 465
p.
Detailed and extensively researched but poorly documented.
Reprinted in a 3 ed. as Evolucin de la medicina en el Ecuador: Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1979. 353 p.
5304. Astudillo Espinosa, Celn. Pginas histricas de la medicina ecuatoriana:
instituciones, ideas y personajes. Quito: Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, Seccin
Nacional del Ecuador, 1981. 267 p.
Includes essays on the history of the Hospital de San Juan de Dios de Quito, the sanitation of
the country and its principal cities in the twentieth century, and notable physicians and
parasitologists.
5305. Astudillo Espinosa, Celn. La patologa tropical en el siglo XVIII y en el Ecuador
actual, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 1099-1110.
An essay on diseases prevalent in the eighteenth century and that were still problems as of the
mid 1980s.
5306. Basantes V., G. Alberto. Las neurociencias en el Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones
Abya-Yala, 1993. 343 p.
A general history of medicine in Ecuador from pre-Hispanic times through the 1980s with an
emphasis on chemotherapy and neurology.
5307. Captulos de historia de la medicina en el Ecuador, Plutarco Naranjo V. [et al.].
Cuenca: Colegio de Mdicos del Azuay, 1981. 96 p.
5308. Cordero Jaramillo, Leoncio. Los primeros hospitales de Cuenca, El Ateneo
(Cuenca), poca 2, 4 (1984), 1-13.
5309. Cordero Jaramillo, Leoncio. Las salas del hospital San Vicente de Paul, Archivos
de la historia de la medicina (item 5302), p. 261-274.
5310. Cueva Tamariz, Agustn. Evolucin de la psiquiatra en el Ecuador. Cuenca: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1966. 175 p.
5311. Espejo, Eugenio. Escritos mdicos: comentarios e iconografa. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1952. vii, 366 p.
Partial contents: Eugenio Espejo, Discurso dirigido por Espejo, desde Bogot a la ciudad de
Quito; Eugenio Espejo, Memoria sobre el corte de quinas; Eugenio Espejo, Reflexiones
sobre la utilidad, importancia y conveniencias que propone D. Francisco Gil, cirujano del Real
Monasterio de San Lorenzo ... acerca de un mtodo seguro para preservar a los pueblos de
viruelas; Gualberto Arcos, El doctor Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo Julio
Endara, Caldas y Espejo: el ansia de la sabidura; Julio E. Paredes, Espejo no slo es
precursor sino el hombre representativo de la ecuatorianidad; Enrique Garcs, El doctor
Eugenio Esgejo [sic]: mdico y duende; Francisco Lpez Baca, Eugenio Espejo contra las
enfermedades sociales; Juan Jos Samaniego, El Dr. Espejo y la deontologa mdica; Luis A.
Contents: Julio Estrada Ycaza, Presentacin (p. v-ix); Eduardo Ortega Moreira, Prlogo
(p. 1-9); Csar Borja Lavayen, La fiebre amarilla: apuntes sobre la epidemia de 1880 (p. 1181); Csar Borja Lavayen, Geografa mdica de la fiebre amarilla en el Ecuador (p. 83-103);
Michael E. Conner, El dominio de la fiebre amarilla en el Ecuador (p. 105-112); Wenceslao
Pareja, Noguchi y su obra (p. 113-133); J.A. Falcon Villagmez, Finlay y la medicina
americana (p. 135-158); Juan Tanca Marengo, Recopilacin de datos sobre la historia de fiebre
amarilla en Guayaquil, Ecuador (p. 159-175); Jos Mascote, Fiebre amarilla [i.e., Memoria
sobre la fiebre amarilla que apareci en Guayaquil en 1842] (p. 177-239); J.A. Falcon
Villagomez, Noguchi y la fiebre amarilla (p. 241-249); Hideyo Noguchi (p. 251-273); Juan
A. Montalvn Cornejo, La fiebre amarilla y su origen en el Ecuador (p. 275-293); and Ernesto
Gutirrez Vera, Pasado y presente de la fiebre amarilla en el Ecuador (p. 295-305).
5323. Fierro Benitez, Rodrigo. Las enfermedades por deficiencia de yodo en el siglo XVIII
y en el Ecuador actual, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 1125-1141.
Summarizes evidence on the presence and treatment of iodine deficiency illnesses from the
1700s through the first half of the 1980s.
5324. Fierro Benitez, Rodrigo. Historia de la deficiencia mental endmica en la regin
andina, Politcnica (Quito), 8:1 (1983), 7-45.
Also published as a separate: Quito: Universidad Central, Facultad de Ciencias Mdicas,
1982. 43 p.
5325. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Fundacin del Hospital de Quito, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 7:18 (jul./ago. 1923), 135-142.
5326. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. El Hospital de la Santa Caridad y Misericordia de
N.S. Jesucristo de Quito. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1924. 23 p.
Also published in: Boletn del Hospital Civil San Juan de Dios, 1:1 (1926), 35-51.
5327. Garca O., Manuel. La odontologa en el Ecuador: monografa histrica. Quito: Impr.
de la Universidad, 1941. 144 p
5328. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. Guayaquil y su historia, 1740-1987: crnica y reflexiones
epidemiolgicas sobre la fiebre amarilla en la ciudad. Guayaquil: V.A. Gonzlez S., 1988. 192
p.
5329. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. Paludismo en el Guayaquil colonial. Guayaquil:
Departamento de Publicaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias Psicolgicas de la Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1986. 52 p.
Although items 5328 and 5329 do not reflect any original research, they are convenient
summaries of the history of yellow fever and of malaria in the port city.
5330. Haro Alvear, Silvio Luis. La magia en la medicina primitiva del Reino de Quito.
Quito: Tall. Grf. Minerva, 1966. 40 p.
5331. Haro Alvear, Silvio Luis. Shamanismo en el Reino de Quito. Quito: Edit. Santo
Domingo, 1973. 110 p.
5332. Haro Alvear, Silvio Luis. Shamanismo y farmacopea en el Reino de Quito. Quito:
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, 1971. 28 p.
Items 5330-5332 are based on mostly long since superseded studies and published sources, the
interpretation of which is skewed by the authors religious bias. He was a Catholic bishop.
Nonetheless, they contain some interesting data as well as ideas on medical beliefs and practices
of indigenous groups before and after the Spanish conquest.
5333. Hermida Piedra, Csar. Apuntes para la historia de la medicina en el Azuay. Cuenca:
Universidad de Cuenca, 1951. 156 p.
Also published in: Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 7:2/3 (abr./sept. 1951), 5-155. See
also item 5342.
5334. Hermida Piedra, Csar. Evolucin de los congresos mdicos nacionales. Cuenca:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1965. 19 p.
5335. Hermida Piedra, Csar. Influencias bsicas en la evolucin de la medicina
ecuatoriana, Archivos de historia de la medicina (item 5302), p. 9-30.
5336. Hermida Piedra, Csar. La medicina en el Azuay: monografa para su historia.
Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1973. 208 p.
Apparently a revised and augmented edition of item 5333.
5337. Hermida Piedra, Csar. Resumen de la historia de la medicina ecuatoriana, 2 ed.
Cuenca: Publicaciones y Papeles, 1979. 124 p.
5338. Holm, Olaf. Verruga peruana en un ceramico patogrfico ecuatoriano, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 4:12 (dic. 1954), 207-223.
5339. Huerta, Pedro Jos. Guayaquil en 1842: Rocafuerte y la epidemia de fiebre amarilla.
Guayaquil: Tall. del Colegio Nacional Vicente Rocafuerte, 1947. 250 p.
An admirable account of the 1842 epidemic of yellow fever, of its impact on the port city, and
local attempts to cope with and to combat the epidemic. Nicely detailed, well researched, solidly
documented.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1987.
5340. Huerta, Pedro Jos. Relatos sobre historia guayaquilea: nuestro Hospital de
Caridad, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 193-259; 8:18/20
(1950), 105-138; 10:23/24 (1955), 129-185.
Also entitled: Historia de nuestro Hospital de Caridad.
A solid study of the nineteenth-century Hospital de Caridad, the forerunner to todays Hospital
Luis Vernaza.
5341. Instituto Nacional de Higiene Leopoldo Izquieta Prez (Ecuador). 25 aos al
servicio de la salud, 1941-1966. Guayaquil: Instituto Nacional de Higiene Leopoldo Izquieta
Prez, 1966. 82 p.
5342. Landvar, Manuel Agustn. Aportes para la historia de la medicina. Cuenca: Colegio
de Mdicos del Azuay, 1981. 98 p.
5343. Landvar, Manuel Agustn. Historia de la lepra en el Azuay, Archivos de historia de
la medicina (item 5302), p. 80-95.
5344. Landvar, Manuel Agustn. Hospitales de caridad en Cuenca y su provincia, en la
poca de la colonia y comienzos de la repblica, Archivos de historia de la medicina (item
5302), p. 96-123.
5345. Landvar, Manuel Agustn. Medicina popular en el Azuay, magia y hechizos,
Archivos de historia de la medicina (item 5302), p. 166-172.
5346. Landvar, Manuel Agustn. Mtodos de inoculacin de las viruelas en los hospitales,
Archivos de historia de la medicina (item 5302), p. 134-139.
5347. Len, Luis A. Captulos sobre la medicina en la poca colonial: Ecuador, 15311822, Terapia (Quito), 24 (1974), 7-47.
5348. Len, Luis A. Folklore e historia del bocio endmico en la Repblica del Ecuador.
Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1959. 52 p.
5349. Len, Luis A. Historia de la medicina en los anales de las expediciones cientficas a
la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1969. 62 p.
Outlines the contributions of scientific expeditions and travelers to knowledge of practice of
traditional medicine in and medicinal plants of the country.
5350. Len, Luis A. Historia y extincin del cocasmo en el Ecuador: sus resultados,
Amrica indgena, 12:1 (ene./mar. 1952), 7-32.
5351. Len, Luis A. Historia y extincin del cocasmo en el Ecuador: sus resultados. Quito:
Edit. Universitaria, 1965. 97 p.
5352. Len, Luis A. Relacin cronolgica del tifus exantemntico en el Ecuador. Quito:
Impr. de la Universidad, 1951. 122 p.
5353. Len, Luis A.; and Renato Len C. Bosquejo histrico de las dermatolsis ms
frecuentes en el Ecuador: desde el siglo XVI al siglo XIX, Revista ecuatoriana de medicina y
ciencias biolgicas, 20:1 (ene./jun. 1984), 37-52.
5354. Libro de inventarios que mand hacer el Padre Prior Fray Carlos Azaldegui, que da
principio el 1 de enero de 1817, Revista del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 3:5 (jun. 1974), 4588.
A primary source for the history of the Hospital of Guayaquil and for the study of the practice
of medicine and pharmacology. Transcribed with an introductory note by Julio Estrada Ycaza.
5355. Madera, Luis F. El Hospital de Ibarra. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1954. 87 p.
5356. Madero Moreira, Mauro. Historia de la medicina en la Provincia del Guayas.
Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1955. 283 p.
Based on some archival research and extensive reading.
Newson maintains that malaria, not just yellow fever, was a late arrival to the coast and the
eastern lowlands.
See also Newsons Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador (item 5405).
5369. Ontaneda Plit, Max. Eugenio Espejo: mdico, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986),
1173-1183.
5370. Pacheco, Vctor M. El arsenal teraputico a la llegada de la Misin Geodsica
francesa y en el Ecuador actual, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 1143-1157.
5371. Paredes Borja, Virgilio. La contribucin del Ecuador a la materia mdica: la quina.
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1947. 24 p.
5372. Paredes Borja, Virgilio. Historia de la medicina en el Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1963. 2 v.
Generally reliable although not well documented. That is to say, Paredes Borja was assiduous
in his research, but, unfortunately, he neglected to cite his sources for the most part.
5373. Parks, Lois F.; and Gustave A. Nuermberger. The Sanitation of Guayaquil, Hispanic
American Historical Review, 23:2 (May 1943), 197-221.
On the eradication of yellow fever in the port city in the 1920s.
Also published in Spanish as: El saneamiento de Guayaquil, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 159-177.
5374. Peticin de rentas para el Hospital de Santa Catalina (1605), Revista del Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 1:1 (primer semestre 1972), 113-138.
An early-seventeenth-century source for the history of the Hospital of Guayaquil.
5375. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. El Hospital Real de Santiago de Guayaquil, Cuadernos de
Historia y Arqueologa, 5:13/14 (ago. 1955), 66-68.
Documents the chronological primacy of the Hospital of Guayaquil (1564) over that of Quito
(1565).
5376. Pino Roca, J. Gabriel. Breves apuntes para la historia de la medicina y sus progresos
en Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Impr. y Papelera Sucre, 1915. 74 p.
Reflects considerable original research.
Reprinted in authors: Leyendas, tradiciones y pginas de historia ... (item 6861), vol. 2, p.
87-135.
5377. Samaniego, Juan Jos. Cronologa mdica ecuatoriana. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1957. 562 p.
A basic reference work.
5378. Samaniego, Juan Jos. Resumen cronolgico de la historia del Hospital de San Juan
de Dios, 1565-1947. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1949. 117 p.
5379. Surez, Jos; and Dolores Lpez. La salud pblica en el siglo XVIII y en nuestros
das, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 1159-1167.
5380. Tanca Marengo, Juan. Papeles viejos: reminiscencias histricas de la medicina
guayaquilea. Guayaquil: Impr. de la Universidad, 1947. 42 p.
Regarding Dr. Csar Borja Lavayn (1852-1910), the Gaceta mdica, and other aspects of the
history of medicine in the port city.
5381. Tanca Marengo, Juan. Recopilacin de datos sobre la historia de la fiebre amarilla en
Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Litografa e Impr. La Reforma, 1936. 20 p.
Reprinted in item 5322.
5382. Tres grandes figuras del pasado: don Pedro Franco Dvila, doctor Jos Mascote,
doctor Csar Borja. Guayaquil: Comisin de Historia de la Medicina, 1952. iv, 100 p.
Reprints: Abel Romeo Castillo, Don Pedro Franco Dvila: un sabio guayaquileo olvidado,
Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 9:21/22 (1952), 9-57; Pedro Franco Dvila,
Instruccin hecha de orden del Rey N.S. para que los virreyes, gobernadores, corregidores,
alcaldes mayores e intendentes de provincias en todos los dominios de S.M. puedan hacer
escoger, preparar y enviar a Madrid todas las producciones curiosas de naturaleza ... (Madrid,
1776); Jos Mascote, Memoria sobre la fiebre amarilla que apareci en Guayaquil el ao de
1842 (Guayaquil, 1844); and Csar Borja, Geografa mdica de la fiebre amarilla en el
Ecuador, Gaceta mdica (Guayaquil), 2:11 (abr. 1895).
5383. Villacs, Manuel Humberto. El Hospital de San Juan de Dios de la ciudad de San
Francisco de Quito, Revista argentina de historia de la medicina, 2:50 (ene. 1943), 49-59.
POPULATION HISTORY
The pioneering study in population history was Luis Telmo Paz y Mios 1942 La poblacin
del Ecuador (item 5419). Although Paz y Mios interpretation of the state and movement of the
population of Ecuador and its component provinces from 1780 through 1935 are subject to major
revisions, he was the first researcher to demonstrate that primary sources exist for the study of
the state and movement of the population of the country and its component regions and
provinces, cities and townships, at least for the late colonial, independence, and early national
periods. Interestingly enough Pedro Hidalgo Gonzlez had already demonstrated that primary
sources existed for the early and middle colonial periods as well, specifically for the port city in
his Crecimiento de la poblacin de Guayaquil y su desarrollo urbano, 1535-1935 (item 5395),
but no had expanded on Hidalgo Gonzlezs work until Michael T. Hamerly appeared on the
scene. Not that anyone picked up where Paz y Mio left off before Hamerly came along either.
The pioneering study in historical demography per se was Hamerlys 1970 La demografa
histrica del distrito de Cuenca, 1778-1838 (item 5392). Hamerly, a North American, was the
first scholar to demonstrate not only that extant primary sources were much more abundant in
time and space, including for the port city and its district--see his Historia social y econmica de
la antigua Provincia de Guayaquil, 1763-1842 (item 5976)--than anyone had previously thought,
but equally, if not more, importantly he was the first to apply techniques of the Berkeley, French,
and English schools of historical demography to Ecuadorian materials.
Had there been no Hamerly, either Rosemary D.F. Bromley or Robson Brines Tyrer might just
as easily have been the father of modern or social scientific population history in Ecuador.
Bromleys and Tyrers studies are pioneering works in their own way too. Bromley, an English
woman, was the first scholar to study the state and movement of the population of the central
highlands (i.e., of Latacunga, Ambato, and Riobamba, and their districts). She was also the first
researcher to bring to bear parish register data. In addition to Bromleys studies on Ecuador
(items 5385-5387), see her Parish Registers as a Source in Latin American Demographic and
Historical Research, Bulletin of the Society of Latin American Studies, 19 (Jan. 1974), 14-21.
Tyrer, a North American, was the first researcher to attempt to establish the size and
movement of the indigenous population of Ecuador at large for almost the whole of the colonial
period (1561-1825) in his well known doctoral dissertation, The Demographic and Economic
History of the Audiencia of Quito, subsequently translated into Spanish and published as
Historia demogrfica y econmica de la Audiencia de Quito (item 5427). (Tyrers findings for
the early colonial period, however, have been superseded by those of Linda Newson [see item
5405], Javier Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse [items 5407-5411, Karen Vieira Powers [items 54215423], and Martin Volland [item 6062]).
Insofar as the southern highlands are concerned, only a few scholars have followed Hamerlys
lead. The first was the cuencano Leonardo Espinoza who reexamined the results of the 1778
census (see item 5389) and, as of July 1997, the most recent the French researcher Jacques
Poloni (also known as Jacques P. Simard) who exploited the same census in order to analyze the
ethnic or racial makeup of the population of Cuenca and its district (item 5420). But only the
Argentine Silvia Palomeque appears to have studied the movement of the populations of the
modern Provinces of Azuay and Caar after independence. In addition to item 5417, see chapter
two of Palomeques 1987 FLACSO thesis Cuenca en el siglo XIX (item 6401).
Apparently only Juan Chacn Zhapn, Pedro Soto, and Diego Mora Castro have begun to
utilize parish register data in order to establish vital rates and other demographic indexes. See
their Historia de la Gobernacin de Cuenca (1777-1820) (item 6341), especially p. 11-14 and
tables 1 DM-14 DM (b). Unfortunately, their presentation of the data is crude. Furthermore,
Chacn Zhapn, Soto, and Mora Castro do not address the issue of methodologies employed.
They are also silent as to the nature of the sources and the difficulties they pose. Therefore
Chacn Zhapn, Soto, and Mora Castros analysis as presented is all but worthless.
In addition to the works described and discussed below, see also: Suzanne Austin Alchons
Native Society and Disease in Colonial Ecuador (item 5300); Mara Luisa Laviana Cuetoss
Guayaquil en el siglo XVIII (item 5985); Martin Minchoms The People of Quito, 1690-1810
(item 7041); Karen Vieira Powerss Prendas con pies: migraciones indgenas y supervivencia
cultural en la Audiencia de Quito (item 1473); and Martin Vollands Indianische
Bevlkerungsgeschichte im Corregimiento Guayaquil (1548-1765) (item 6062).
Another important work is Hermes Tovar Pinzn, Jorge Andrs Tovar Mora, and Camilo
Ernesto Tovar Moras Convocatoria al poder del nmero: censos y estadstica de la Nueva
Granada, 1750-1830 (Bogot: Archivo General de la Nacin, 1994; 587 p.). See especially pp.
63-101 for the results of the 1778 and 1825 censuses of the Viceroyalty of New Granada and
Colombia and pp. 305-373 for the results of the late-colonial and independence period censuses
of the Provinces of Popayn and Choc. In this regard it will be recalled that the Viceroyalty of
New Granada included the future Ecuador and that the Department of Ecuador was part of
Bolvars chimeric creation, Gran Colombia.
N.B. This section supplements but does not altogether supersede my La demografa histrica
del Ecuador, Per y Bolivia: una bibliografa preliminar (item 91).
5384. Bentez A., Sylvia. Apuntes demogrficos del cacicazgo de Sangolqu: siglo XVI al
XVIII, Memoria, MARKA, ao 2, no. 2 (nov. 1991), 59-90.
A competent reconstruction of the state and movement of the population of the Cacicazgo of
Sangolqu, one of the five pueblos within the alfoz of Quito, from the visita of 1559 through that
of 1776. Especially concerned with the questions of forasteros (hidden residents) and out- as
well as in-migration. Should be complemented by analysis of the parish registers of Sangolqu,
more or less complete from 1632, 1690, and 1738, respectively, according to Bentez herself.
5385. Bromley, Rosemary D.F. Change in the Ethnic Composition of the Population of
Central Highland Ecuador, 1778-1841, Current Anthropology, 21:3 (June 1980), 412-414.
Analyzes changes in the racial composition of the populations of the districts of Latacunga
and Ambato during the late colonial, independence, and early national periods.
5386. Bromley, Rosemary D.F. Disasters and Population Change in Central Highland
Ecuador, 1778-1825, Social Fabric and Spatial Structure in Colonial Latin America, edited by
David J. Robinson (Ann Arbor: Published for Department of Geography, Syracuse University by
University Microfilms International, 1979), p. 85-115.
Quantifies the differential impact of natural disasters, especially the earthquake of 1797, and
manmade disasters, such as the loss of the textile market of Peru to European competition, on the
population and economy of Latacunga, Ambato, Riobamba and their districts during the late
colonial and independence periods. In addition to the earthquake of 1797 and various epidemics,
Bromley finds that the wars of independence also contributed to the decline in population, at
least in the towns, an argument she refines in item 5387. Also analyzes ethnic composition and
distribution of the population. Based on parish register as well as coeval census data.
5387. Bromley, Rosemary D.F. Urban-Rural Demographic Contrasts in Highland Ecuador:
Town Recession in a Period of Catastrophe, 1778-1841, Journal of Historical Geography, 5:3
(July 1979), 281-295.
Demonstrates extent to which the towns of Latacunga, Ambato and Riobamba lost population
absolutely and relatively in terms of their previous numbers and those of their districts during the
late colonial, independence, and early national periods. In play were the continuing economic
depression, several epidemics, the earthquake of 1797, that hit the towns particularly hard, civil
disorders--especially the wars of independence--and out migration. Also delineates the
differences in the characteristics of the urban and rural populations. Based primarily on analysis
of the padrones of 1778-1781 and 1814, and the censuses of 1836-1841.
N.B. Items 5385-5387 are drawn from the authors 1977 doctoral dissertation, Urban Growth
and Decline in the Central Sierra of Ecuador 1698-1940, University of Wales.
5388. Burgos Guevara, Hugo. La poblacin del Ecuador en la encrucijada de los siglos XVI
y XVII, Atti dei XL Congresso internazionale degli americanisti: Roma-Genova, 3-10 settembre
1972, vol. 2 (Genova: Tilgher, 1973), p. 483-487.
On the basis of research in the Archivo General de Indias, Burgos corrects the population
figures advanced by Angel Rosenblat in La poblacin indgena de Amrica: desde 1492 hasta la
actualidad (Buenos Aires: Institucin Cultural Hispnica, 1945; 2 vols.) and other works.
Maintains that depopulation was less drastic than originally thought and that much of the
nominal decline was the result of resettlement (i.e., the reducciones) and the mita.
5389. Espinoza, Leonardo. En el bicentenario del primer censo de poblacin de la
Gobernacin de Cuenca, 1778-1978, Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del
Azuay, 4 (1982), 9-33.
A reassessment of the results of the 1778 padrn of city and governorship of Cuenca. Differs
slightly from Hamerlys reading thereof (see item 5392).
5390. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Migraciones internas en el Ecuador, Revista del Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 6:11 (jun. 1977), 5-26.
A review of the flow of migrants during the colonial and national periods, especially from the
highlands to the coast. Based largely on data provided by Hamerly. See also item 6588.
5391. Grohs, Waltraud. Los indios del Alto Amazonas del siglo XVI al XVIII: poblaciones y
migraciones en la antigua Provincia de Maynas. Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien, 1974.
133 p.
A masters thesis on the demography of the former Province of Mainas, from the initial
incursion of Europeans through the expulsion of the Jesuits. A competent rsum and analysis of
the state of knowledge as of the early 1970s. Updated in part but not altogether superseded by
Taylors more recent study (item 5426).
5392. Hamerly, Michael T. La demografa histrica del distrito de Cuenca, 1778-1838,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 53:116 (jul./dic. 1970), 203-229.
A solidly researched and annotated survey both of the demographic data per se and of the
sources on which the study is based.
5393. Hamerly, Michael T. Demografa y morfologa de Guayaquil, 1756-1814, Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de Historia, 73:155/156 (1990), 157-172.
A wholly new study of the growth of the population of Guayaquil and of the city as an entity
during the late colonial period, utilizing parish registers--for the first time in the literature on the
historical demography of Guayaquil--as well as padrones and coeval enumerations of houses and
of pulperas. For Hamerlys original findings on the historical demography of the port city, see
item 5976.
5400. Minchom, Martin. La evolucin demogrfica del Ecuador en el siglo XVII [i.e.,
XVIII], Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 459-480.
A solid overview of the state and movement of the population of the country, especially of the
highlands, during the eighteenth and early- nineteenth centuries--the XVII in the title is a
typographical error--by one of the principal cultivators of the demography of colonial period.
Also published in English as: Demographic Change in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador,
Equateur 1986 (Paris: Editions de lORSTOM, 1989), vol. 1, p. 179-196.
5401. Minchom, Martin. Historia demogrfica de Loja y su provincia desde 1700 hasta
finales de la colonia, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr. 1983), 149-169.
A pioneering study of the population history of the city and Province of Loja from 1700
through 1825. Based on parish registers--although only of the town--as well as on coeval
censuses and other enumerations.
5402. Minchom, Martin. The Making of a White Province: Demographic Movement and
Ethnic Transformation in the South of the Audiencia de Quito, 1670-1830, Bulletin de lInstitut
franais dtudes andines, 12:3/4 (1983), 23-39.
Examines the nominally substantial but in reality only partial transformation of the population
of Loja from mixed (i.e., Indian, white, and black) to mostly white.
5403. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Apuntes para el estudio de la poblacin del siglo XVI de la Real
Audiencia de Quito, Museo Histrico, 56 (1978), 71-87.
5404. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Quito en 1797. Quito: Centro Ecuatoriano para el Desarrollo de
la Comunidad, 1991. 64 p.
A methodologically unsophisticated study of a heretofore ignored record group, the 1797 lists
of communicants of six of the seven urban parishes of the capital--that of Santa Prisca, if
compiled, does not appear to have survived. Not analyzed conjointly with coeval parish register
or civil census data. See also item 5129.
5405. Newson, Linda A. Life and Death in Early Colonial Ecuador. Norman: University of
Oklahoma Press, 1995. xii, 505 p.
As of July 1997, the most substantial and sophisticated study on the yet to be wholly resolved
questions of how large the native populations of the coast, the highlands, and the Oriente were
prior to the Inca and Spanish conquests, and by how much they declined as a direct or indirect
consequence thereof. (In so far as the central-south coast is concerned, however, Vollmers
Indianische Bevlkerungsgeschichte im Corregimiento Guayaquil (1548-1765) (item 6062) is
more detailed.) Includes a detailed discussion of the lands and peoples of pre-Columbian
Ecuador on the eve of the conquests. Employs qualitative as well as quantitative analysis.
5406. Numeraciones del repartimiento de Otavalo, compilacin de Juan Freile Granizo;
transcripcin paleogrfica de Mara Mardorf de Larran, Nadia Flores de Nez y Juan Freile
Granizo. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1981. 2 v. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 17,
18)
Also published in French as: La population tributaire de lEquateur colonial, Equateur 1986
(Paris: Editions de lORSTOM, 1989), vol. 1, p. 167-178.
5412. Padrn de la Parroqua la Matriz del Cantn Guayaquil en 1832, Coleccin Amigos
de la Genealoga, 21 (jun. 1986), 35-90.
Items 5412, 5415, 5418, and 5428-5434 constitute part of the 1832 set of at least 59 lists of
adult male taxpayers, padrones of adult males per se, and catastros of urban and rural parishes of
the former Province of Guayaquil, undertaken in compliance with the law of 17 Dec. 1831. The
originals are or, at least used to be, in the Archivo Histrico de la Biblioteca Municipal de
Guayaquil. I do not know if Ezio Garay Arellano, who published these items, transcribed the
sources from the original documents or relied on the typewritten transcription thereof, also in, or
formerly in, the AH/BMG. Be that as it may, it should be noted that the typed version is not
altogether reliable.
5413. Padrn de Santa Brbara en 1768, Museo Histrico, 56 (1978), 93-122.
A nominative list of vecinos y moradores of one of the parishes of Quito.
5414. Padrn y apuntamientos de Gualaceo, ordenado por el Gobernador Vallejo, en
septiembre de 1778,[versin de] Max Romeo Arzaga, Coleccin Amigos de la Genealoga, 27
(abr. 1987), 6-25.
Publishes one of the raw returns of the 1778 census of the Governorship of Cuenca, analyzed
in items 5389 and 5392. Exemplifies the wealth of data to be found in the Vallejo census.
5415. Padrones de Santa Luca y de Balzar en 1832, Coleccin Amigos de la Genealoga ,
23 (nov. 1986), 65-79.
5416. Pez Tern, Rodrigo. Inmigraciones al Ecuador de 1870 a 1920, Coleccin Amigos
de la Genealoga, 21 (jun. 1986), 207-210.
5417. Palomeque, Silvia. Ecuador en el siglo XIX: movimientos de la poblacin en la
regin de Cuenca, Siglo XIX (Monterrey), 4:7 (ene./jun. 1988), 127-175.
A preliminary yet important study of the state and movement of the population of the
Provinces of Caar and Azuay in the 1800s. Includes analysis of returns of the 1871 census, but
only from one of the three urban parishes of Cuenca (San Sebastin) and two of the rural parishes
(Molleturo and San Cristbal).
5418. Parroqua de Santa Clara de Daule: padrones de la ciudad de Guayaquil y Provincia de
idem., ao de 1832, Coleccin Amigos de la Genealoga, 23 (nov. 1986), 65-79.
5419. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. La poblacin del Ecuador. Quito: Publicaciones del
Ministerio de Previsin Social, 1942. 51 p.
The pioneering study. Paz y Mio was the first scholar of any nationality to begin to compile
and analyze historical demographic data of Ecuador. Methodologically unsophisticated,
however. More importantly, not pursued in depth by Paz y Mio, notwithstanding his apparently
long standing interest in the topic (see also items 8771 and 8772).
5435. Visita y numeracin de los pueblos del Valle de los Chillos, 1551-1559, Cristobal
Landzuri N., compilador. Quito: MARKA, Instituto de Historia y Antropologa Andina;
Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1990. 313 p.
Early demographic sources often show up in expedientes and traslados that at first glance
appear to have little or nothing to do with the state and movement of population. Cases in point
are the here within published: Residencia del licenciado Juan de Salazar de Villasante del
tiempo que fue corregidor de la ciudad de San Francisco de Quito y su partido por el licenciado
Hernando de Santilln presidente de la Real Audiencia, segundo legajo (1564-1566), p. 71-265,
that contains the inspection and enumeration of 1559, to which is appended the inspection of
1551. Also publishes the: Litigio entre don Juan Zumba cacique del pueblo Uyumbicho y
Hernando de la Parra, alcalde ordinario de la ciudad de Quito sobre tierras en Uyumbicho
(1565), p. 267-303.
5436. Washburn, Douglas A. La delineacin de regiones por caractersticas demogrficas,
Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 4 (1982), 34-57.
Analyzes characteristics of the population by macro regions and coeval jurisdictions circa
1778, utilizing padrones of the late 1770s and early 1780s.
There is a very substantial body of literature on the law and legislation of Ecuador, including
the history thereof. But there is no need to list here every title of possible interest to the
historian, given Juan Larrea Holgns comprehensive Bibliografa jurdica del Ecuador, of which
there had been three editions as of July, 1997, each more replete than its predecessor (items 118120).
In addition to the guides and indexes to legislation cited below, see J. Enrique Ribadeneira
and Luis Cornelio Daz V.s Cien aos de legislacin militar 1830-1930. Quito, Editorial
Gutenberg, 1930. 143 p.
5439. Bahamonde T., Csar O. Clave de la legislacin cantonal del I. Municipio de Quito:
desde 1900 hasta 1944. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1945. 93 p.
5440. Baquero de la Calle, Jos Antonio. Desarrollo del derecho social en el Ecuador.
Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1968. 62 p.
5441. Baquero Lpez, Jos Antonio. Cartas polticas, legislacin, reformas sucesivas, El
Ecuador en cien aos de independencia (item 1927), vol. 1, p. 179-187.
Reprinted in: Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 173-178.
5442. Borja, Luis Felipe. Un opsculo indito: estudio histrico-crtico de la legislacin en
el Ecuador en el ao 1901, introduccin de Luis Felipe Borja, hijo. Quito: Impr. y
Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1923. 43 p.
5443. Borja Prez, Luis Felipe. Influencia del cdigo civil francs en el Ecuador, Revista
de la Universidad de Cuenca, 15 (feb. 1935), 73-87.
5444. Borja y Borja, Ramiro. La Constitucin quitea de 1812. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1962. 110 p.
5445. Borja y Borja, Ramiro. Derecho constitucional ecuatoriano. Madrid: Ediciones
Cultura Hispnica, 1950. 3 v.
See also item 5467.
5446. Borja y Borja, Ramiro. Proyecto de reforma de la Constitucin presentada al
Congreso. Quito: Ind. Grficas CYMA, 1969. 282 p.
5447. Bossano, Guillermo. Evolucin del derecho constitucional ecuatoriano, 4 ed. Quito:
Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1985. 386 p.
5448. Bustamante, Francisco. Cortas reflexiones sobre el juramento de obediencia a la
Constitucin dada en Quito en 1843. Quito, 1843. 73 p.
5449. Cabezas Borja, Reinaldo. Apuntes de derecho penal: introduccin para un estudio
crtico del Cdigo penal ecuatoriano. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1918. viii,
176, iii p.
5450. Calle Saavedra, Eduardo; and Letty Chang Loqui. Estudio de la legislacin de
desarrollo urbano del Cantn Guayaquil, 1976-1982, 2 ed. Guayaquil: INDECA, 1982. 2 v.
5451. Casares, Carlos. Instituciones del derecho civil ecuatoriano. Quito: Impr. de Manuel
V. Flor, por J. Mora, 1873-1886. 2 v.
Vol. 2: Impr. del Clero.
5452. Cevallos Arzaga, Benjamn. Historia del derecho civil ecuatoriano. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Nacionales, 1963-1969. 3 v.
Vol. 3: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana.
5453. Cisneros Cisneros, Csar. El derecho social en el Ecuador, Previsin social, 22
(sept. 1948/ene. 1949), 11-24.
5454. La Constitucin de 1978 y el proceso de reestructuracin jurdica del Estado, 19761978: recopilacin-sistematizacin e indice, por Luis Orleans Calle Vargas. Guayaquil: Instituto
de Investigaciones Jurdicas, Facultad de Jurisprudencia y Ciencias Sociales y Polticas,
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1978. 233 p.
5455. Crdova, Andrs F. Derecho civil ecuatoriano. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1956. 2 v.
5456. Crdova, Andrs F. Derecho procesal penal ecuatoriano. Quito: Tall. Grf. Minerva,
1953. 2 v.
5457. Cuenca (Ecuador). Ordenanza para el control y administracin del Centro Histrico
de la ciudad de Cuenca. Cuenca: Municipio de Cuenca, 1983. 24 p.
5458. Cuenca (Ecuador). Recopilacin de acuerdos y ordenanzas de la Municipalidad de
Cuenca. Cuenca: Impreso por M. Vintimilla C., 1905. 224 p.
5459. Chinchilla, Laura; and David W. Schodt. The Administration of Justice in Ecuador.
San Jos: Centro para la Administracin de Justicia; Miami: Florida International University,
1993. 98 p.
A critical assessment of the administration of justice, especially of criminal justice, as of the
late 1980s and early 1990s. Examines the historical as well as current administrative, legal,
and socio-political dimensions of the system.
5460. Daz V., Luis Cornelio. Cien aos de legislacin militar. Quito: Edit. Gutenberg,
1930. 143 p.
A guide to military legislation enacted between 1830 and 1930.
5461. Echeverra Gavilanes, Enrique. La legislacin 1906-1980, El Ecuador en el siglo XX
(item 2255), p. 293-336.
A solid, well organized review. A good introduction to legistlation of the first two thirds or
thereabouts of the 1900s.
5462. Ecuador. Anuario de legislacin ecuatoriana: correspondiente al ao ... 1901-1933.
Quito: Archivo del Poder Legislativo, 1902-1941. 44 v.
5463. Ecuador. Cdigos y leyes de la Repblica del Ecuador, edicin dirigida por Juan
Larrea Holgun con la colaboracin de Ramn Eduardo B. [y] Francisco Jordana B. Quito:
Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1967-1974. 6 v.
5464. Ecuador. Coleccin de leyes, decretos, ordenanzas, resoluciones y contratos.
Guayaquil: Tip. de la Sociedad Filantrpica del Guayas, 1906. 667 p.
Laws and executive decrees pertaining to municipalities in general and to that of Guayaquil in
particular. Compiled by Eduardo San Miguel.
5465. Ecuador. Constitucin poltica de la Repblica del Ecuador: la amnistia, el juicio
poltico y la interpretacin en la historia constitucional ecuatoriana. Quito: Sociedad de
Estudios Forenses, 1986. vii, 82 p.
5506. Prez Guerrero, Alfredo. La sucesin por causa de muerte, 2 ed. Quito: Edit.
Universitaria, 1956. 2 v.
5507. Ponce Martnez, Alejandro. La tirana constitucional. Quito: IUS, 1981. 184 p.
5508. Quito (Audiencia). Cuerpo de leyes dadas por el Presidente de la Real Audiencia de
Quito Toribio Montes, ARNAHIS, 13:19 (marzo 1973), 163-180.
5509. Quito (Audiencia). Ordenanzas de la Real Audiencia de Quito. Quito: Corporacin de
Estudios y Publicaciones, 1978. 203 p.
Publishes for the first time the ordinances of the Audiencia of Quito (1563), p. [15]-65.
Transcribed by Juan Freile Granizo.
5510. Quito (Audiencia). Ordenanzas reales de la Audiencia de Quito, 4 de octubre de 1563.
Quito: Municipalidad de Quito: Xerox del Ecuador, 1982. 102 leaves.
Apparently a photofacsimile edition of the manuscript original.
5511. Reig Satorrres, Jos. Precedentes a las Ordenanzas de 1563, Ordenanzas de la Real
Audiencia de Quito (Quito: Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1978), p. [67]-203.
5512. Riofro Villagmez, Eduardo. Estudios de derecho financiero. Quito: Impr. del
Ministerio del Tesoro, 1949. 506 p.
5513. Rivadeneira, Enrique; and Luis Cornelio Daz. Cien aos de legislacin militar, 18301930. Quito: Edit. Gutenberg, 1930. 143 p.
A guide to military legislation and regulations.
5514. Romero Barberis, Nicols. Clasificacin alfabtica y numrica de ordenanzas y
reglamentos municipales, 1900-1978. Quito: Municipalidad de Quito, 1980. iv, 396 p.
5515. Romero Menndez, Hctor. Nuestra legislacin del trabajo: (su historia y sus
principios generales), Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1:2 (jun. 1930), 175-236.
5516. Sacoto Castro, Humberto. Indice de algunas leyes, decretos, reglamentos, estatutos y
reformas publicados en el Registro Oficial desde el mes de julio de 1925 hasta el ao de 1959.
Cuenca: Tall. Grf. de la Universidad, 1962. 268 p.
5517. Salgado, Gustavo. La vida del derecho en el antiguo Reino de Quito Anales de la
Universidad Central, 71:319/320 (jul./dic. 1943), 83-178.
5518. Sarmiento, Alberto. Diccionario jurdico ecuatoriano. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales,
1950. 294 p.
5519. Serrano, Adolfo Benjamn. Indice de un ensayo de recopilacin de la legislacin
ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Tip. Guayaquil, 1899. xxxvii, 152 p.
Although not the earliest attempt to index legislation of the national period--it was the second-this is the first important guide thereto. The earliest guide was Francisco Andrade Marns Clave
de la legislacin ecuatoriana (Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1894), but it was not nearly as
comprehensive (vii, 55 p.) as Serranos. Continued by Yepez (item 5529). Serrano and Yepez
are still useful thematic as well as diachronic guides; neither has been altogether superseded by
Larreas more recent indexes (items 5496 and 5498).
5520. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Desarrollo constitucional de la Repblica del Ecuador, 2 ed.
aum. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1936. 95 p.
5521. Tobar Donoso, Julio; and Juan Larrea Holgun. Derecho constitucional ecuatoriano.
Quito: Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1980. 493 p.
5522. Troya Jaramillo, Jos Vicente. La legalidad de la deuda externa: una reflexin
jurdica del problema, 1 ed. Quito: Grupo de Trabajo sobre Deuda Externa y Desarrollo,
FONDAD, 1991. 71 p.
5523. Vaca del Pozo, Telmo N. El periodismo y las leyes de imprenta. Guayaquil: Impr. de
la Universidad, 1941. 186 p.
Also published in: Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 11:3 (set./dic. 1940), 479-657.
5524. Valencia Haro, Hugo. Legislacin ecuatoriana del trabajo. Quito: Edit. Universitaria,
1979. 549 p.
5525. Vela, Jorge O.; and Juan Larrea Holgun. A Statement of the Laws of Ecuador in
Matters Affecting Business, 3rd ed., rev. and enlg. Washington, D.C.: Organization of American
States, 1975. xiii, 285 p.
Broader in coverage than the title implies. A useful albeit somewhat dated introduction to the
legal system of Ecuador for English readers.
5526. Velasco Ibarra, Jos Mara. La Constitucin ecuatoriana de 1869, Revista de la
Sociedad Estudios Jurdicos, 2:16/17 (ene./feb. 1921), 1-40.
5527. Villacrs, Lautaro. La prensa y la libertad de expresin en las constituciones
ecuatorianas, Anales de la Universidad Central, 82:337 (ene. 1954), 71-110.
5528. Wray Espinosa, Alberto. El sistema jurdico ecuatoriano, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 13, p. 169-212.
A useful overview. Includes an attempt to establish the periodicization of the history of
judicial thought in Ecuador.
5529. Yepez, Manuel A. Clave de la legislacin ecuatoriana, 1899-1921. Quito: Impr.
Nacional, 1922. xxxvi, 307 p.
Continues Serrano (item 5519). May have appeared in two vols., but I have only seen one.
5530. Zambrano, Miguel Angel. Breve historia del cdigo del trabajo ecuatoriano de 1938:
su gnesis, elaboracin y expedicin, Revista del Instituto de Derecho del Trabajo y de
Investigaciones Sociales, 4 (jul./dic. 1962), 290-303.
Also available in reprint: Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1963.
5531. Zevallos Reyre, Francisco. Lecciones de derecho constitucional, 2 ed. Guayaquil:
Impr. de la Universidad, 1947. 446 p.
5532. Ziga, Neptal. La obra jurdica del Ecuador en Hispanoamrica en el siglo XIX,
Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 27:1/2 (ene./jun. 1971), 223-232.
BOUNDARY DISPUTES
Although Ecuadorians have been quite scholarly in defense of their territorial rights to the
Oriente, they have not been nearly as copious as Peruvians in the publication of the
corresponding documentation, for the particulars of which see: Jorge Basadre, Introduccin a las
bases documentales para la historia de la Repblica del Per con algunas reflexiones (Lima:
Ediciones P.L. Villanueva, 1961 [3 v.]); Alejandro San Martn Caro and Rafael Caro, Relaciones
peruano-ecuatorianas: gua bibliogrfica (item 182); and vol. 1 of Juan Miguel Bkulas Per y
Ecuador (item 15). Nor have Ecuadorians paid nearly as much attention to their boundary
differences with Colombia.
A full bibliography of publications on the Ecuador-Peru question would be nearly as long, if
not longer, than this Bibliografa histrica. Although I have endeavored to include every
significant publication, undoubtedly some that should have been included, have not and others
that could have been excluded, appear. At best therefore the following list should be considered
a representative sample. For a more complete listing, consult the above mentioned works of
Basadre, San Martn Caro and Caro, and especially Bkula. Bryce Wood also reviews much of
the literature on the Ecuador-Peru dispute in item 5723.
Regardless of the polemical, emotionally charged nature of much of the literature, even those
studies lacking in historicity are important because of their role in the making of the two nationstates and their respective national ideologies. Furthermore, the controversy has generated the
publication of several major compendia of primary sources that include a variety of materials for
the reconstruction of the history of the central-south coast as well as of the Oriente.
The renewal of hostilities between Ecuador and Peru in 1981 (the Paquisha incident)
generated new literature, some of which is represented below, as did also that of the fighting in
the Cepeda Basin in early 1995. The literature on the 1995 outbreak of hostilities between the
two countries and that on the apparent resolution of the then 170-year-old conflict in 1998, fall
outside the chronological parameters of this bibliography, however.
5533. Acevedo, Alain de. Le conflit entre lEquateur et le Perou et ses posibilits de
rglement pacifique. 1950. 200 leaves.
Thse pour le doctorat en droit presente et soutenue le 27 mai 1950 a la Facult de droit de
Paris.
5534. Aloma Llori, Antonio. La defensa del Oriente ecuatoriano. Quito: Tall. Grf.
Nacionales, 1935. 514 p.
5535. Alvarado, Rafael. Demarcacin de fronteras. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1942.
51 p.
5536. Alvarado, Rafael. La elocuencia de las cifras en el problema territorial ecuatorianoperuano: (contribucin al estudio de la geografa de Amrica). Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin,
1941. 40 p.
5537. Alvarado, Rafael. Memorandum sobre el problema fronterizo entre el Ecuador y el
Per en el sector Lagartococha-Gep. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1948. 74 p.
Also published in: Anales de la Universidad Central, 76:327 (ene./dic. 1948), 5-61.
5538. Alvarado, Rafael. El Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro: lo que garantizaron las potencias
grandes. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1961. 82 p.
5539. Alvarado Garaicoa, Teodoro. La demarcacin territorial ecuatoriana a travs de
cdulas reales, protocolos y tratados. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del
Guayas, 1959. 33 p.
5540. Alvarado Garaicoa, Teodoro. Sinpsis del derecho territorial ecuatoriano.
Guayaquil: Edit. Cervantes, 1952. 396 p.
5541. Alvarez Arteta, Segundo. La cuestin de lmites entre las Repblicas del Ecuador y el
Per: apuntes y documentos. Sevilla: Escuela Tip. y Librera Salesianas, 1901. xvii, 558 p.
A well documented study by an Ecuadorian priest who examines developments of the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
5542. Andrade S., Francisco. Lmites entre Colombia y Ecuador, Boletn de historia y
antigedades (Bogot), 48:557/558 (mar./abr. 1961), 201-218.
Somewhat superficial.
5543. Angulo Puente Arnao, Juan. Nuestros lmites con la Repblica del Ecuador. Lima: e
Impr. Badiola y Berro, 1905. 110 p.
5544. Angulo Puente Arnao, Juan. Historia de los lmites del Per, 3 ed. Lima: Impr. de la
Intendencia General de Guerra, 1927. 312, xv p.
5545. Araujo Arana, Humberto. Antecedentes y choques fronterizos y ocupacin peruana de
territorio ecuatoriano en 1941-1942: con documentacin del Per, 1941-42 y del Ecuador,
1939-41, 1 ed. Lima: Edit. Thesis, 1963-1969. 3 v.
5546. Arroyo Delgado, Enrique. Las negociaciones limtrofes ecuatoriano-peruanas en
Washington, 1936-1938. Quito: Edit. de El Comercio, 1939. 244 p.
5547. Avery, William P. Origins and Consequences of the Border Dispute Between
Ecuador and Peru, Inter-American Economic Affairs, 38:1(Summer 1984), 65-77.
5548. Barrera Valverde, Alfonso. Hombres de paz en lucha. Quito: Ediciones y
Distribuciones J.L.I., [1982]. 2 v.
Contents: t. 1. El Ecuador ante la agresin peruana de 1981; t. 2. Documentos.
5549. Basadre, Modesto. Refutacin documentada del folleto titulado Cuestin de lmites
entre el Ecuador y el Per, publicado en Santiago de Chile por P.M. Lima: Aurelio Alfaro y
Ca, 1860. iii, 226 p.
Refutes Pedro Moncayos Cuestin de lmites (item 5627). See also: Aun las cuestiones de
lmites del Ecuador, o, Sea Pedro Moncayo y su nuevo folleto, sus absurdos y su mala f, por
E.P. Lima: Tipo. de Aurelio Alfaro, 1862. 58 p.
5550. Becerra G., Lzaro G. Las prdidas territoriales que el Ecuador ha sufrido a travs de
su historia, Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol. 1, p. 164-172.
5551. Belaunde, Vctor Andrs. La vida internacional del Per. Lima: Impr. Torres Aguirre,
1942. xxxi, 468 p.
Only T. 1, Relaciones con el Ecuador; La Constitucin inicial del Per ante el derecho
internacional was published. Also available in a photofacsimile reprint: Lima: Edit.
Universitaria, 1981.
A scholarly, relatively dispassionate statement of Perus case.
5552. Borja, Rafael. El descalabro del 41 y Paquisha del 81: visin de un periodista, 3 ed.
aum. Quito: Editorial Universitaria, 1981. 350 p.
Originally published as: El descalabro del 41: (visin de un periodista). Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1971. 244 p.
5553. Borrero, Manuel Mara. Un centenario que lacera nuestra angustia. Quito: Edit.
Santo Domingo, 1961. 336 p.
5554. Burbano, Csar. Breve estudio histrico de los lmites entre el Ecuador y Colombia.
Tulcn: Tip. La Cospolitana, 1916. 115 p.
5555. Cabeza de Vaca, Manuel. Aspectos histricos y jurdicos de la cuestin limtrofe.
Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1944. 252 p.
5556. Cabeza de Vaca, Manuel. Aspectos histricos y jurdicos de la cuestin limtrofe: la
nulidad del Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro, Anales de la Universidad Central, 92:347 (1963), 139162.
5557. Cabeza de Vaca, Manuel. Aspectos histricos y jurdicos de la cuestin limtrofe: las
negociaciones en Washington y los desenvolvimientos posteriores. Quito: Tall. Grf.
Nacionales, 1956. 151 p.
5558. Canalejas y Mndez, Jos. Lmites entre las Repblicas del Ecuador y del Per.
Madrid: Establecimiento Tipogrfico Sucesores de Rivadeneira, 1905. 73 p.
5559. Carlier Castro, Alberto. Paquisha es nuestro: sntesis histrica de lmites del Ecuador
con el Per, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1982. 23 p.
5560. Coral, Luciano. Conflicto internacional entre el Ecuador y el Per. Guayaquil: Impr.
de El Tiempo, 1894. 388 p.
Regarding the 1893-1894 flare-up between Ecuador and Peru.
5561. Cornejo M., Pedro. La defensa peruana, o sea, Examen de los argumentos que el Per
ha presentado ante S.M.C. Quito: Impr. de El Comercio, 1909. iii, 140 p.
5562. Cornejo M., Pedro. El Ecuador y el Per, o sea, Algo acerca de los lmites que deben
separar a estas repblicas. Quito: Tip. de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1905. iv, 153 p.
5563. Cornejo M., Pedro. Examen crtico de la cdula de 1802. Quito: Impr. de la Escuela
de Artes y Oficios, 1906. 93 p.
5564. Crespo Ordez, Roberto. El descubrimiento del Amazonas y los derechos
territoriales del Ecuador: conferencia. Cuenca: Ncleo del Azuay de la Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1961. 55 p.
5565. Crespo Toral, Remigio. El divorcio de Colombia: aspectos de ltima hora. Cuenca:
Tip. de la Universidad, 1933. xi, 120 p.
5566. Crisis y fronteras: relaciones fronterizas binacionales de Colombia con Venezuela y
Ecuador, Cristina Barrera, compiladora, 1 ed. Bogot: Ediciones Uniandes, 1989. 439 p.
5567. Chacn, Luis Antonio. Apuntaciones para el estudio de lmites del Ecuador con el
Per. Guayaquil: Impr. de El Telgrafo, 1905. v, 181 p.
5568. Chvez Franco, Modesto. Cartilla patria: eptome de historia y geografa referentes a
las fronteras entre Ecuador y Per de 1531 a 1921. Quito: Impr. de El Da, 1922. 238 p.
Used as an official text for many years. An important source for understanding Ecuadorian
attitudes towards Peruvians, especially of Ecuadorians who attended school in the 1920s and
1930s.
5569. Chiriboga Ordez, Leonardo. Pudo el Ecuador ser agresor en 1941? Quito: Prensa
Catlica, 1952. 102 p.
5570. De la Barra, Felipe. El conflicto peruano-ecuatoriano y la victoriosa campaa de 1941
en las fronteras de Zarumilla y Nor Oriente. Lima: Centro de Estudios Histrico-Militares del
Per, 1969. 122 p.
5571. De la Barra, Felipe. Tumbes, Jan y Maynas: estudio integral de la controversia
limtrofe peruano-ecuatoriana hasta el Pacto de Ro de Janeiro y su renuncia por el pas del
norte, con sinopsis histrica de las operaciones militares en 1941, y conteniendo tres mapas.
Lima: Centro de Estudios Histrico-Militares del Per, 1961. x, 99 p.
5572. Delgado, Luis Humberto. Las guerras del Per: campaa del Ecuador: batalla del
Zarumilla. Lima: Torres Aguirre, 1944. 70 p.
5573. Delgado, Luis Humberto. Las guerras del Per: campaa del Ecuador: grandeza y
miseria de la victoria. Lima: Torres Aguirre, 1944. 266 p.
5574. Delgado, Luis Humberto. Nuestra situacin internacional, Ecuador. Lima: Latino
Amrica Editores, 1941. 75 p.
5575. Delgado Jara, Diego. Problema territorial: oligarqua y pueblo. Cuenca: Universidad
de Cuenca, 1985. 306 p.
5576. Destruge, Camilo. Ecuador-Per, dos centenarios: combate de Malpelo, agresin a
Guayaquil, la defensa de la ciudad, relaciones histricas. Guayaquil: Impr. La Opinin Pblica,
1928. iv, 53 p.
Also published in English as: International Conflicts: Peru against Colombia, Ecuador and
Chile. Santiago de Chile: Sociedad Imprenta y Litografa Universo, 1920. 247 p.
5600. Garca Velasco, Rafael. El problema territorial ecuatoriano. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1965. 40 p.
5601. Garca Velasco, Rafael. El territorio del Ecuador en el siglo XX, El Ecuador en el
siglo XX (item 2255), p. 119-210.
Also published as a separate: Quito: Edit. Publitcnica, 1981. 208 p.
5602. Garca Velasco, Rafael. El Tratado de 1.829: ley suprema de la controversia limtrofe
entre Ecuador y Per. Quito: Unin Interamericana de Periodistas para la XI Conferencia de
Quito, 1961. 32 p.
5603. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Estudio histrico sobre la cdula del 15 de julio de 1802,
2 ed. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1913. x, 51 p.
5604. Gutarra Marav, Eleazar. La Cordillera del Condor: un desafo geopoltico, 2 ed.,
corr. y aum. Lima: Tall. Grf. de la IMG, 1984. 194 p.
5605. Hacia una nueva conciencia americana: estudios jurdicos. Quito: Unin
Interamericana de Periodistas, 1961. 87 p.
Contents: J.I. Lovato V., El Protocolo de Ro es un obstculo para mantener la justicia en
Amrica; A. Vsquez Carrizosa, Los derechos del Ecuador y el Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro;
Nulidad del Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro, de 1942, a la luz del derecho internacional europeo y
de los principios del sistema juridco interamericano; I. Rodrguez Guerrero, Impracticabilidad
del Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro de 1942 y sus consecuencias jurdicas; G. Ariosto Fernndez,
Es nulo el Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro?
5606. Herrera, Pablo. Alegato del Gobierno del Ecuador ante Su Majestad. Quito: Impr. del
Clero, 1892. xxxix p.
The separately printed prologue to item 5712. At head of title: Lmites entre el Ecuador y el
Per.
5607. Herrera, Pablo. Observaciones sobre el tratado de 15 de enero celebrado en
Guayaquil entre los plenipotenciarios de los generales Ramn Castilla y Guillermo Franco.
Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1860. 61 p.
5608. Herrera, Pablo; and Honorato Vsquez. Proyecto de alegato ante el Gobierno de
Espaa, edicin reservada y de mero estudio. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad, 1891. xiv, 216 p.
5609. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. Algo ms acerca de los tratados de Colombia. Quito: Impr.
de la Universidad Central, 1928. x, 134 p.
5610. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. La guerra de conquista en Amrica. Guayaquil: Edit. Jouvin,
1941. xlii, 467 p.
Regarding Perus invasion of southern Ecuador and occupation of most of the Oriente.
5623. Maurtua, Anibal. La cuestin de lmites entre el Per y el Ecuador. Buenos Aires:
J.E. Hall, 1910. 92 p.
Published under the pseudonym: Amrico Latino.
5624. Medina Castro, Manuel. La cuestin limtrofe en el Ecuador, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 12, p. 305-340.
Should be read as historiography and an extremist statement of Ecuadors position. Suffers
from myopic, if not also xenophobic, nationalism.
5625. Medina Castro, Manuel. La responsabilidad del gobierno norteamericano en el
proceso de la mutilacin territorial del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1977.
215 p.
Blames the United States for the mutilation of the country. Although the Government of the
United States can hardly be said to have supported Ecuador in its continuing boundary dispute
with Peru, this emotionally charged book adds nothing to the discussion of the real issues
involved or to their history. It is important, however, as an ideological tract.
5626. Mendoza Garca, Luis Anbal. Derecho territorial ecuatoriano: historia de lmites del
Ecuador, 5a ed. Quito: Impr. Nueva Luz, [1979?]. 189, [7] p.
5627. Moncayo, Pedro. Cuestin de lmites entre el Ecuador y el Per: segn el uti
possidetis de 1810 y los tratados de 1829, 3 ed. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1905. 64 p.
Originally published: Santiago de Chile: Impr. Nacional, 1860. 62 p.
5628. Montalvo Montero, Pompeyo. Subterfugios y esquinces de la diplomacia peruana
frente a la nulidad e inejecutividad del Protocolo del Ro. Quito: Edit. Voluntad, [1987?]. 47 p.
5629. Mora, Alfonso Mara. Dos estudios de actualidad: problema territorial ecuatorianoperuano y descubrimiento del Ro Amazonas: momentos de emergencia peligrosos y decisivos
para Amrica y Ecuador. Quito: Editora Quito, 1963. iv, 272 p.
A special issue of Ecuador (abr. 1963).
5630. Morales Padrn, Francisco. La frontera peruano-ecuatoriana, Estudios
americanos(Sevilla), 2:7 (sept. 1950), 455-466.
5631. Muoz Vernaza, Alberto. Exposicin sobre el Tratado de lmites de 1916 entre el
Ecuador y Colombia y anlisis jurdico del Tratado de lmites de 1922 entre Colombia y el Per.
Quito: Tall. Tipogrficos de El Comercio, 1928. 102 p.
It will be recalled that Muoz Vernaza played a major role in the negotiation of the 1916
Treaty between Colombia and Ecuador, having been one of the architects thereof.
5632. Muoz Vernaza, Alberto. Orgenes de la nacionalidad ecuatoriana. Cuenca: Centro
de Estudios Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 1960. xvi, 109 p.
A study of the cdula of 1802, its antecedents and repercussions. Reprint; originally
published: Cuenca, 1937. Also republished in item 609.
5633. Noboa, Guillermo. Pueblos y soldados de mi patria. Quito: Ind. Grf. Cyma, 1960.
166 p.
5634. Olivart, Ramn de Dalmau y de Olivart, Marqus de. Algo ms acerca de la frontera
ecuatoriana-peruana: cartas al Excmo. Sr. D. Honorato Vzquez, ministro plenipotenciario y
enviado extraordinario del Ecuador en misin especial a propsito del dictamen jurdico emitido
acerca de esta materia por varios distinguidos jurisconsultos espaoles. Madrid:
Establecimiento Tip. de los hijos de R. Alvarez, 1908. 152 p.
5635. Olivart, Ramn de Dalmau y de Olivart, Marqus de. La frontera de la antigua
Colombia con el Per: contribucin al estudio de la cuestin de lmites entre el ltimo y el
Ecuador. Madrid: Estab. Tip. Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1906. xx, 327 p.
5636. Olivart, Ramn de Dalmau y de Olivart, Marqus de. De los principios que rigen la
sucesin territorial en los cambios de soberana y su aplicacin a la cuestin de lmites entre el
Ecuador y el Per. Madrid: Establ. Tip. de los hijos de R. Alvarez, 1906. xv, 127 p.
Items 5634, 5635, and 5636 are well documented studies by an eminent Spanish
internationalist who supported Ecuadors cause and claims.
5637. Oquendo, Diego. En las alturas del Condor, 1 ed. Quito: Consorcio de Consejos
Provinciales, 1981. 155 p.
5638. Ordez Chvez, Alonso. Frontera provisional. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1966. 127 p.
5639. Ordez Zamora, Aurelio. Confesiones peruanas y situacin jurdica de lmites.
Cuenca: Impr. Atahualpa, 1979. 121 p.
5640, Orellana, J. Gonzalo. Las agresiones peruanas al Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Coln, 1982.
193 p.
5641. Ortiz, Delio. Amazonas abajo: biografa de una infamia, 1 ed. Quito: Editora Quito,
1955. 274 p.
5642. Palacios Senz, Carlos. La guerra del 41: el Protocolo de Ro no demarc fronteras
definitivas. Guayaquil: Ediciones ARA, 1979. 175 p.
5643. Paltn Domguez, Leonor del Carmen. Historia de lmites del Ecuador. Quito: Impr.
I.G.M., 1981. 173 p.
An exceptionally objective and relatively dispassionate account.
5644. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. Atlas histrico-geogrfico de los lmites del Ecuador. Quito:
Impr. Nacional, 1936-. <1> v.
5645. Peralta, Jos. Breve exposicin histrico-jurdica de nuestra controversia de lmites
con el Per, 2 ed. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1925. 112 p.
5646. Prez Concha, Jorge. Derecho territorial ecuatoriano: sntesis histrica. Guayaquil:
Departamento de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1979. 101 p.
5647. Prez Concha, Jorge. El Ecuador ante el problema amaznico. Guayaquil: Jouvin,
1934. 70 p.
5648. Prez Concha, Jorge. Ensayo histrico-crtico de las relaciones diplomticas del
Ecuador con los estados limtrofes, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del
Guayas, 1961-1968. 3 v.
A comprehensive, well documented study of the long since resolved but not forgotten
boundary dispute with Colombia and of the as of July 1997 not yet resolved boundary dispute
with Peru.
Vol. 1 has appeared in a third edition (1968), literally twice as long as the second. But
apparently vol. 3 was issued in only one edition (1965). Originally published: Guayaquil: Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1958-1959. 2 v.
5649. Prez Concha, Jorge. Frente externo. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1985.
359 p.
5650. Prez Concha, Jorge. Guayaquil y el problema de su anexin a los estados limtrofes:
la clebre entrevista, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 55:120 (jul./dic. 1972), 171204.
5651. Prez Concha, Jorge. El Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro. Guayaquil: Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1977. 116, 5 p.
Revised and expanded version of: El Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro y los problemas derivados
de su ejecucin. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1954. 77 p.
5652. Peru. Alegato del Per en el arbitraje sobre sus lmites con el Ecuador, presentado por
D. Jos Pardo y Barreda, encargado de negocios del Per en Espaa a S.M. el arbitro la Reina
Regente de Espaa. Madrid: Impr. de los hijos de M.G. Hernndez, 1905. 200 p.
5653. Peru. Arbitraje de lmites entre el Per y el Ecuador, dictmenes jurdicos presentados
a S.M. el real arbitro con la Memoria del Per . Madrid: Impr. de los hijos de M.G. Hernndez,
1906. 252 p.
5654. Peru. Arbitraje de lmites entre el Per y el Ecuador, indices geogrfico, personal y
general de la defensa peruana. Madrid: Impr. de los hijos de M.G. Hernndez, 1907. 367 p.
Comprende este volumen los nombres geogrficos y de personas citados en el Alegato y
Documentos presentados por el seor Pardo y Barreda, y en la Memoria y Documentos de los
seores Cornejo y Osma, y los indices parciales de todos los volmenes de ambas
publicaciones. --Advertencia. In other words, this vol. indexes items 5652, 5655-5657.
5655. Peru. Documentos anexos a la Memoria del Per, presentados a S.M. el real arbitro
por D. Mariano H. Cornejo y D. Felipe de Osma, plenipotenciarios del Per ... Madrid: Impr. de
los hijos de M.G. Hernndez, 1905-1906. 7 v.
At head of title: Arbitraje de lmites entre el Per y el Ecuador. Vol. 5-6 have imprint:
Barcelona: Impr. de Henrich y Ca., 1906. Vol. 7 entitled: Apndices a la Memoria del Per ...
This and the following item are much broader in coverage than their titles imply. Both
publish many sources dealing with multiple aspects of the history of Ecuador, especially of the
former Gobierno Poltico y Militar / Provincia Libre / Departamento de Guayaquil and the former
Gobierno Poltico y Militar de Maynas, durante the colonial and independence periods.
5656. Peru. Documentos anexos al Alegato del Per, presentados a S.M. el real arbitro por
D. Jos Pardo y Barreda, encargado de negocios del Per. Madrid: Impr. de los hijos de M.G.
Hernndez, 1905. 2 v.
At head of title: Arbitraje de lmites entre el Per y el Ecuador.
5657. Peru. Memoria del Per en el arbitraje sobre sus lmites con el Ecuador, presentada a
S.M. el real arbitro por Mariano H. Cornejo y Felipe de Osma, plenipotenciarios del Per.
Madrid: Impr. de los hijos de M.G. Hernndez, 1905-1906. 4 v.
Vol. 2: Barcelona: Impr. de Heinrich y Ca, 1906. Largely drafted by Osma.
5658. Peru. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Documentos bsicos sobre el Protocolo de
Ro de Janeiro de 1942 y su ejecucin, 3 ed. Lima: Edit. Lumen, 1961. 86 p.
5659. Peru. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Documentos relativos a la Conferencia
Per-Ecuatoriana de Washington. Lima: Edit. Lumen, 1938. xvi, 232 p.
5660. Peru. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. Memorias y documentos diplomticos
sobre la negociacin del Tratado de Lmites entre el Per y el Ecuador. Lima: Impr. de Torres
Aguirre, 1892. xxviii, 715 p.
Covers the negotiating period 1884-1890.
5661. Peru. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. The Peruvian Ecuadorian Border Incident
in the Cordillera del Condor. Lima: Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru, 1981. 108 p.
5662. Pino Ycaza, Gabriel. Derecho territorial ecuatoriano. Guayaquil: Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1946-1952. 2 v.
5663. Ponce, Nicols Clemente. Lmites entre el Ecuador y Colombia. Quito: Impr. y
Encuadernacin de Julio Senz R., Tipgrafo-Editor, 1913. vii, 99 p.
Also published in: 2 ed. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacional, 1915. 142 p.
This and the following item are considered to be classic statements of Ecuadors position.
5664. Ponce Nicols Clemente. Lmites entre el Ecuador y el Per: memorandum para el
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de la Repblica de Bolivia, 4 ed. Quito: Impr. Nacional,
1936. 64, 64 p.
In Spanish and English on opposite, separately numbered pages.
5665. Portillo, Pedro. Acontecimientos realizados con los ecuatorianos, colombianos y
brasileros en los Ros Napo, Putumayo, Yurua y Purus durante los aos de 1901 a 1904. Lima:
Tip. del Panptico, 1909. 65 p.
5666. Puente, Rafael A. La mala fe peruana y los responsables del desastre de Zarumilla.
Quito: Editora Moderna, 1946. 320 p.
Anti-Arroyo del Ro. Also published in: 2 ed. Quito: Editora Espejo, 1961. 299 p.
5667. Puig Arosema, Alberto. Nuevos aspectos de nulidad del Protocolo de Ro de Janeiro.
Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, Departamento de Publicaciones, 1964. 46 p.
5668. Reategui Delgado, Carlos Ignacio. Trazando la frontera: diario tcnico de viaje de la
Comisin Mixta Demarcadora de Lmites Per-Ecuador: primera brigada mixta llevado por el
capitn de corbeta, Carlos Ignacio Restegui Delgado, edicin y compilacin, Carmen Rossello
Truel vda. de Reategui y Jorge Ortiz Sotelo. Lima: Direccin de Intereses Martimos, 1992. xii,
216 p.
5669. Reig Satorres, Jos. Una grave extralimitacin del Virrey Abascal, Anales de la
Universidad de Chile, 5 ser., 20 (ago. 1989), 473-512.
5670. Reig Satorres, Jos. Guayaquil, su relevancia histrica. Guayaquil: Ediciones del
Centro Universitario Los Esteros, 1991. 154 p.
A detailed reexamination replete with documentary appendices of the controversy surrounding
the temporary transfer or annexation of the Political and Military Government of Guayaquil to
the Viceroyalty of Lima in the early 1800s. Incorporates the preceding item.
5671. Restrepo G., Marco; Mara Eugenia Tmariz Tormen; and Teodoro Bustamante.
Frontera amaznica: historia de un problema, 1 ed. Quito: CEDIME; Pastaza: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Pastaza, 1991. 100 p.
5672. Rodrguez S., Luis A. La verdad sobre la agresin peruana. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1966. 128 p.
See also items 2583 and 2584.
5673. Senz A., Jos Mara. Antecedentes y tratados de Girn y Guayaquil, Boletn
histrico (Quito), 2:8 (dic. 1978), 48-78.
5674. Senz A., Jos Mara. La batalla de Tarqui y su importancia en el derecho territorial
ecuatoriano. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1981. 82 p.
5675. Senz A., Jos Mara. La cdula real del 16 de junio de 1819, Boletn histrico
(Quito), 3:9/10 (ene./jun. 1979), 22-31.
5676. Salazar Flor, Carlos. Antecedentes histricos de las cuestiones limtrofes ecuatorianos
y juicio del conflicto colombo-peruano. Quito: Universidad Central, 1933. 84 p.
5677. Sampedro V., Francisco. Del Amazonas en 1830 al Condor en 1981: la realidad
geogrfica que la historia no investig: condensado anlisis, histrico-diplomtico del proceso
de lmites del Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Offset, 1983. 320 p.
5678. San Cristval, Evaristo. La controversia limtrofe entre el Per y el Ecuador:
cumplimiento ejecucin de la real cdula de 15 de julio de 1802. Lima: Libera e Impr. Gil,
1938. 42 p.
5679. San Cristval, Evaristo. Pginas internacionales: antecedentes diplomticos del
Tratado Salomn-Lozano: estudio crtico del tratado, 2 ed. Lima: Librera e Impr. Gil, 1932.
246 p.
5680. Snchez Roman, Felipe. El litigio de lmites entre el Ecuador y el Per ante el
Consejo de Estado: votos particulares del Excmo. Sr. D. ... Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1910. 134 p.
5681. Santamara, Julio H. La gigantesca personalidad de Atahualpa y sus generales; La
agresin del imperialismo peruano al Ecuador en 1941. Quito: Edit. Ind. Grf. Cyma, 1970.
230 p.
5682. Santamara, Julio H. La tragedia internacional del Ecuador y sus responsables.
Quito: Impr. Mercantil, 1945. 64 p.
5683. Santamara de Paredes, Vicente. Estudio de la cuestin de lmites entre las Repblicas
del Per y del Ecuador. Madrid: Impr. de los hijos de M.G. Hernndez, 1907. 2, 307, [11] p.
Also published in English. See item 5684.
5684. Santamara de Paredes, Vicente. A Study of the Question of the Boundaries Between
the Republics of Ecuador and Peru, translated by Harry Weston Van Dyke. New York: Gordon
Press, 1976. 2, 336, [10] p.
Reprint; originally published: Washington, D.C.: Press of Byron S. Adams, 1910.
5685. Serrano, Manuel. A la nacin: la verdad en los asuntos de Zarumilla. Quito: Glvez,
1909. 64 p.
5686. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Derecho territorial ecuatoriano. Guayaquil: Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1962. xvi, 512 p.
5687. Silva, Rafael Euclides. El Tratado de Guayaquil, 22 de septiembre de 1829: su
significado histrico jurdico. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1980. 80 p.
5688. Slaght, Dale V. The New Realities of Ecuadorian-Peruvian Relations: a Search for
Causes, Inter-American Economic Affairs, 27:2 (Autumn 1973), 3-14.
5689. St. John, Ronald Bruce. Boundary Dispute between Peru and Ecuador, American
Journal of International Law, 71:2 (Apr. 1977), 322-330.
5690. St. John, Ronald Bruce. Peruvian Foreign Policy, 1919-1939: the Delimitation of
Frontiers. 1969. 6, 560 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Denver.
5691. Tern, Francisco. La realidad histrico-geogrfico de Tumbez, Jan y Mainas. Quito:
Impr. del Ministerio de Gobierno, 1941. 44 p.
Also published in: Amrica (Quito), 16:71 (1941), 178-221.
5692. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Del tratado de paz al Protocolo Pedemonte-Mosquera, Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 26:68 (jul./dic. 1946), 151-204; 27:69 (ene./jun. 1947), 4964.
5693. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Derecho territorial ecuatoriano. Quito: Edit. La Unin Catlica,
1961. 284 p.
5694. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La doctrina del uti possidetis, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 36:88 (jul./dic. 1956), 164-194; 37:89 (ene./jun. 1957), 5-42; 37:90
(jul./dic. 1957), 201-231; 38:91 (ene./jun. 1958), 49-90.
Also published as: El uti possidetis juris. Quito: Impr. Prensa Catlica, 1958. 144 p.
(Estudios sobre lmites ecuatoriano-peruanos; t. 2)
5695. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Estudios sobre lmites ecuatoriano-peruanos: antecedentes del
tratado de 1829, Protocolo Pedemonte-Mosquera. Quito: Impr. Romero, 1947. 265 p.
A special edition of: Antecedentes del Tratado de 1829, Boletn de la Academia Nacional
de Historia, 24:64 (jul./dic. 1944), 263-319; 25:65 (ene./jun. 1945), 16-66; El Tratado de
Guayaquil, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 25:66 (jul./dic. 1945), 143-192; 26:67
(ene./jun. 1946), 41-78; and Del tratado de paz al Protocolo Pedemonte-Mosquera, Boletn de
la Academia Nacional de Historia, 26:68 (jul./dic. 1946), 151-204; 27:69 (ene./jun. 1947), 4964.
5696. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La invasin peruana y el Protocolo de Ro: antecedentes y
explicacin histrica, 2 ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y
Cultura, 1982. xxviii, 559 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1945. viii, 559 p.
A defense by the Minister of Foreign Affairs who signed the Protocol of 1942, nominally
settling the boundary dispute with Peru, of his actions and a review of Ecuadors historic claims
to the lost territory.
5697. Tobar Donoso, Julio. El Tratado de 1860, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 35:86 (jul./dic. 1955), 201-248.
5698. Tobar Donoso, Julio. El Tratado de Guayaquil de 1829. Quito: Instituto Geogrfico
Militar, 1979. vii, 278 p.
5699. Tobar Donoso, Julio. El Tratado Noboa-Pando Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 34:84 (jul./dic. 1954), 151-178.
5700. Tobar Donoso, Julio; and Alfredo Luna Tobar. Derecho territorial ecuatoriano.
Quito: Edit. La Unin Catlica, 1961. 284 p.
A basic work that has become one of the classics on the subject. Luna Tobar is a nephew of
the late Tobar Donoso.
Periodically updated: 2 ed. Quito: Artes Grficas, 1979. 381 p. 3 ed. Quito: Direccin
General de Informacin, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, 1982. 381 p. 4 ed. Quito: Impr.
del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, 1994. 566 p.
5701. Tudela, Francisco. The Controversy between Peru and Ecuador: (translation). Lima:
Impr. Torres Aguirre, 1941. 46 p.
5702. Ulloa, Luis. Algo de historia: las cuestiones territoriales con Ecuador y Colombia y la
falsedad del Protocolo Pedemonte-Mosquera. Lima: Impr. la Industria, 1911. vii, 146, c p.
5703. Ulloa Vernimmen, Jos. Paquisha, un hito de gloria. Guayaquil: Edit. Cultura y
Democracia, 1981. 355 p.
A well documented account of the Ecuador-Peru conflict of 1981.
5704. Ulloa y Sotomayor, Alberto. Per y Ecuador: ltima etapa del problema de lmites
(1941-1942). Lima: Impr. Torres Aguirre, 1942. 117 p.
5705. Vacas Galindo, Enrique. Coleccin de documentos sobre lmites ecuatorianoperuanos. Quito: Tip. de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1902-1903. 3 v.
Vol. 3, Exposicin sobre los lmites ecuatoriano-peruanos, is a scholarly exposition of
Ecuadors rights to territories lost to Colombia and Peru; sometimes it is described separately.
N.B. Vacas Galindo is another author whose name has been garbled by catalogers. He is
sometimes listed as Bacas Galindo, Enrique.
5706. Vacas Galindo, Enrique. Integridad territorial de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito:
Tip. y Encuadernacin Salesianas, 1905. iii, 502 p.
5707. Valencia Rodrguez, Luis. El conflicto territorial ecuatoriano-peruano: programa de
cooperacin poltica regional: material de investigacin, 1 ed. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, 1988. 137 p.
Advocates a peaceful solution based on moderate demands and bilateral cooperation.
5708. Vallejo Larrea, Rafael. El problema limtrofe ecuatoriano-peruano. Santiago de
Chile: Direccin de Talleres Fiscales, 1931. 214 p.
5709. Vzquez, Honorato. El eplogo peruano: memorandum para el Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores de la Repblica del Ecuador. Madrid: Establecimiento Tipogrfico
Sucesores de Rivadeneira, 1907. vi, 193 p.
At head of title: Litigio de lmites entre el Ecuador y el Per.
5710. Vzquez, Honorato. Exposicin a Su Majestad Catlica Don Alfonso XIII en la
demanda de la Repblica del Ecuador contra la del Per sobre lmites territoriales. Madrid:
Establecimiento Tipogrfico Sucesores de Rivadeneira, 1908. viii, 525 p.
5711. Vzquez, Honorato. El memorandum final del Per: contra-memorandum. Madrid:
Establecimiento Tipogrfico Sucesores de Rivadeneira, 1909. 58 p.
5712. Vzquez, Honorato. Memoria histrico-jurdica sobre los lmites ecuatorianoperuanos. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1967. vii, 321 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1892. xxxix, 384 p. The original
edition includes a prologue by Pablo Herrera (see also item 5712).
5713. Vzquez, Honorato. La misin diplomtica de Honorato Vzquez en Madrid para el
litigio de lmites entre el Ecuador y Per. Madrid: Establecimiento Tipogrfico de ls hijos de R.
Alvarez, 1911. iv, 158 p.
A monographic issue of Anales de la Universidad de Cuenca, 23:3 (jul./sept. 1967). Reprint;
originally published: Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1892.
5714. Velasco Cceres, Humberto. Sinopsis histrica, jurdica y geogrfica del secular
pleito de lmites entre Ecuador y Per. Riobamba: Edit. Espinoza, 1962. 258 p.
5715. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. Con la integracin andina, vendr la desintegracin del
Ecuador, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 2 poca, 45 (1991 [i.e., 1993]), 93-102.
5716. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. Geohistoria del Estado ecuatoriano, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 23:40 (1973), 29-161.
5717. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. Historia de lmites del Estado ecuatoriano: geografa,
historia y derechos territoriales. Guayaquil: Edit. Arquidiocesana Justicia y Paz, 1984. 141 p.
See also the same authors more recent: Las invasiones y desmembraciones efectuadas por los
estados limtrofes vecinos al territorio ecuatoriano, in which he denounces the seizure of
national territory by Brazil, Colombia, and Peru and condemns the complicity of national
administrations in said appropriations. Guayaquil: Tall. Grf. de Editorial Justicia y Paz, 1990.
112 p.
5718. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. La invasin peruana en 1859 y el Tratado de
Mapasingue, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 52:113 (ene./jun. 1969), 5-42.
5719. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. La responsabilidad de la diplomacia ecuatoriana en la
demarcacin fronteriza. Guayaquil: Impr. de la Universidad, 1945. 61 p.
5720. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. Las pretensiones peruanas en la Cordillera del Condor
hasta los ros ecuatorianos Puyango y Catamayo. Guayaquil: Edit. de la Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1990. 118 p.
5721. Villamil, Homero. Invasiones peruanas al Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Argentina, 1965.
146 p.
A high school text. An example of the kind of anti-Peruvian literature on which Ecuadorians
used to be raised.
5722. Viteri Lafronte, Homero. El Ecuador y su salida propia al Maran. Quito: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1952. 93 p.
5723. Wood, Bryce. Aggression and History: The Case of Ecuador and Peru. Ann Arbor:
Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies, Columbia University by University
Microfilms International, 1978. xiii, 309 p.
Examines the historiography as well as the history of the dispute.
5724. Wood, Bryce. The United States and Latin American Wars, 1932-1942. New York:
Columbia University Press, 1966. x, 519 p.
See pt. 3: The Maran Conflict (p. 255-342).
5725. Yepes, Jess Mara. La controversia fronteriza entre el Ecuador y el Per. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1960. 36 p.
5726. Yepes, Jess Mara. Derecho contra fuerza: una cuestin de inters continental.
Quito: Unin Interamericana de Periodistas para la XI Conferencia de Quito, 1960. 38 p.
5727. Zanabra Zamudo, Rmulo. Luchas y victorias por la definicin de una frontera: la
lucha en el dominio poltico. Lima: [s.n.], 1969. xi, 398 p.
5728. Zrate Lescano, Jos. Resea histrica del problema limtrofe peruano-ecuatoriano.
Lima: Impr. del Mininsterio de Guerra, 1960. vi, 108 p.
Lo que todo peruano debe saber y todo ecuatoriano no debe ignorar.
5729. Zegers, Luis Fautino. Defensa de los derechos del Per sobre los terrenos amaznicos
que se le disputan, o sea, Refutacin del folleto que ha publicado en Chile el Sr. Dr. D. Pedro
Moncayo. Lima: Tip. del Comercio por J.M. Monterola, 1860. 84 p.
5730. Zook, David H., Jr. Spanish Arbitration of the Ecuador-Peru Dispute, The Americas,
20:4 (Apr. 1964), 359-375.
5731. Zook, David H., Jr. Zarumilla-Maran : The Ecuador-Peru Dispute. New York:
Bookman, 1964. 331 p.
A solid, dispassionate, scholarly account.
FOREIGN RELATIONS
5732. Accin Anticomunista Ecuatoriana. Cubanizar al Ecuador? Quito: Edit. Don Bosco,
1961. 136 p.
5733. Aguilar, C. La mediacin latino-americana en el conflicto entre los Estados Unidos y
Mxico: la iniciativa del Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1916. 28 p.
5734. Aguirre Abad, Francisco X. Documentos relativos a la ltima legacin ecuatoriana en
el Per. Guayaquil: Impr. del Progreso, 1855. 30 p.
5735. Alvarado Garaicoa, Teodoro. El mar territorial y el mar patrimonial. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1973. 173 p.
5736. Andrade, Roberto. Tulcan y Cuaspud: fragmentos de la obra Montalvo y Garca
Moreno. Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1907. 112 p.
5737. Barrera, Angel T. Eloy Alfaro y la Gran Colombia. Guayaquil: Impr. Mercantil, 1921.
45 p.
5738. Barros Van Buren, Mario. La Misin Eastman en el Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1966. 176 p.
Barros was secretary to Vctor Eastman Cox (1871-1943), the Chilean ambassador to Ecuador
between 1909 and 1920.
5739. Bonilla, Adrin. Las sorprendentes virtudes de lo perverso: Ecuador y narcotrfico en
los 90. Quito: FLACSO-Sede Ecuador, 1993. 103 p.
5740. Bustamante, Fernando. Ecuador, Putting an End to Ghosts of the Past?, Journal of
Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 34:4 (Winter 1992/1993), 195-224.
Examines foreign policy concerns of the Rodrigo Borja administration, especially vis-a-vis
Peru, Andean integration, and access to the Amazon.
5741. Bustamante, Fernando. Foreign Policy Options under Dependence: a Theoretical
Evaluation with Evidence from Ecuador, Journal of Latin American Studies, 25:3 (Oct. 1993),
543-574.
5742. Bustamante Muoz, Antonio. Lista de los instrumentos internacionales concluidos por
el Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1960. 319 p.
A calendar of international agreements and treaties to which Ecuador is a signatory.
5743. Cabeza de Vaca, Manuel. La posicin del Ecuador en el conflicto colombo-peruano.
Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1934. 227 p.
5744. Cceres, Luis Ren. Ecuador y la integracin andina: experiencias y perspectivas,
Integracin latinoamericana, 18:195 (nov. 1993), 31-46.
5745. Carrera de la Torre, Luis. El proyecto binacional Puyango Tumbes. Quito: AFESE:
ILDIS, 1990. 242 p.
5746. Carrin, Francisco. Poltica exterior del Ecuador: evolucin, teora y prctica, 1 ed.
Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1986. 338 p.
5747. Cowan, Paul. The Making of an Un-American: A Dialogue With Experience. New
York: Viking Press, 1970. 370 p.
A critique of the Peace Corps in the field. The author and his spouse were volunteers in
Guayaquil in 1966 and 1967.
5748. Crespo Andrade, Aurelio. Colombia y Ecuador. Quito: Tip., Librera e Impr.
Fernndez, 1936. 104 p.
5749. Davidson, David. Good Neighbors, American Heritage, 35:3 (April/May 1984),
104-109.
The author, a veteran of the Office of Inter-American Affairs campaign to convince Latin
Americans to support the Allies during World War II, recalls his experience in trying to bring
American values to a bewildered Ecuador.
5750. De la Cruz, Ermel. El Ecuador, meridiano de espectacin continental en Punta del
Este: y una cita de presidentes que hizo historia en Amrica. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1968.
274 p.
5751. De la Torre Reyes, Carlos. Vicente Piedrahita y el Congreso de Lima, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 45:102 (jul./dic. 1963), 223-234.
5752. Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States Concerning the Independence of the
Latin American Nations, selected and arranged by William R. Manning. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1925-1926. 3 v.
5765. Escudero, Gonzalo. Justicia para el Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1968. 279 p.
Both items 5764 and 5765 have to do with Ecuadors boundary claims and general relations
with Peru.
5766. Falconi, Gerardo. Misin en La Habana. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1968.
217 p.
5767. Flores, Antonio. Ecuador protesta: (contra los proyectos de enajenar las Islas
Galpagos que le atribuy el Ministro de lo Interior). Bayonne: Impr. Lamaignre, [1900]. 10,
15 p.
5768. Flores, Antonio. El supuesto proyecto de enajenar las Islas de Galpagos y el Tratado
Franco-Ecuatoriano de 1888. Niza: Impr. de Robaudi Hermanos, 1899. 15 p.
Protests the allegation that as president he had sought to transfer the Galpagos to France.
5769. Garca Donoso de Larrea, Paulina. Poltica econmica externa del Ecuador:
proyecciones hacia el siglo XXI. Quito: Direccin General de Comunicacin y Prensa,
Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, 1992. 45 p.
5770. Garca Moreno, Gabriel. Epistolario diplomtico del Presidente Gabriel Garca
Moreno, 1859-1969, edicin preparada y prologada por Jorge Villalba F., 1976. Quito: Archivo
Juan Jos Flores, 1976. 84, clxvi p.
Contents: Relaciones del gobierno de Garca Moreno con el Gral. Toms C. de Mosquera,
presidente de los Estados Unidos de Colombia; Diario del Dr. Antonio Flores Jijn sobre su
misin cerca del Gral. Mosquera, 1863; Misin del Dr. Antonio Flores al Vaticano para
solicitar las reformas al Concordato; Diario de la misin del Dr. Antonio Flores al Vaticano;
Epistolario del Presidente Gabriel Garca Moreno.
5771. Gonzlez, Nicols Augusto. El Ecuador en el conflicto internacional del Pacfico:
conferencia dada en el seno del Comit 10 de Agosto del Callao ... el domingo 12 de mayo de
1901. Lima: Librera Escolar e Impr. de E. Moreno, 1901. 34 p.
5772. Gruss, Louis. The Mission to Ecuador of Judah P. Benjamin, The Louisiana
Historical Quarterly, 32:1 (Jan. 1940), 162-169.
Regarding United States interest in the early 1850s in obtaining a commercial treaty to exploit
the guano deposits supposedly to be found in the Galpagos.
5773. Guzmn Polanco, Manuel de. Un ecuatoriano ilustre: Vicente Piedrahita, pginas de
la diplomacia ecuatoriana. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1965. 123 p.
Primarily a study of Piedrahita as a diplomat, especially of his role in the second InterAmerican Congress of 1864-1865.
5774. Hey, Jeanne A.K. Foreign Policy Options under Dependence: a Theoretical
Evaluation with Evidence from Ecuador, Journal of Latin American Studies, 25:3 (Oct. 1993),
543-574.
Maintains that diplomatic initiatives such as Hurtados sponsorship of the 1984 Conferencia
Econmica Latinoamericana and Febres Corderos 1985 visit to Cuba to sign treaties of
cooperation reflect internal realities and concerns of some importance to Ecuador, although they
may be of little or no concern to the United States, upon whom Ecuador continues to be heavily
dependent for economic aid.
5775. Hey, Jeanne A.K. Theories of Dependent Foreign Policy and the Case of Ecuador in
the 1980s. Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1995. xiv, 292 p.
Finds that cycles hypothesis rather than trend hypothesis performs best in
political/diplomatic foreign policy, and that pro-US behavior is most consistent in the
economic realm, not in the political/diplomatic realm, at least during the Hurtado and Febres
Cordero regimes. Based on interviews with previous presidents, foreign ministers, and career
diplomats as well as relevant literature. See also Heys Ecuadoran Foreign Policy Since 1979:
Ideological Cycles or a Trend towards Neoliberalism?, Journal of Studies and World Affairs,
37:4 (Winter 1995), 57-88, in which she compares the foreign policies of Borja and Durn Balln
to those of Hurtado and Febres Cordero, and her The Trouble with Compliance: Dependence
and Foreign Policy in Ecuador, Comparative Political Studies, 29:6 (xxxx 1996), 660-668, a
recapitulation of her book.
5776. Howe, George F. Garca Morenos Efforts to Unite Ecuador and France, Hispanic
American Historical Review, 16:2 (May 1940), 257-262.
Details and documents Garca Morenos 1859 attempt to enlist the support of France in his bid
for power and of subsequent efforts by diplomatic representatives of the French and Ecuadorian
governments to convince the government of France to make Ecuador a protectorate.
5777. Lara, Daro. Gonzalo Zaldumbide, ministro plenipotenciario del Ecuador en Pars
(1919-1923), Cultura, 3:7 (mayo/ago. 1980), 120-136.
5778. Lecaro Bustamante, Arturo. Primer Concurso sobre Poltica Internacional del
Ecuador, 1809-1984: primer premio. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1985. 548 p.
Cover title: Poltica internacional del Ecuador, 1809-1984. Also available in a 2 ed. (i.e.,
reprint): Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1987.
5779. Lpez, Nicols F. De actualidad: el asunto Galpagos en la Cmara de Diputados y
un discurso. Quito: Impr. La Gutenberg, 1910. 38 p.
5780. Lpez, Nicols F. Resea diplomtica, El Ecuador en cien aos de independencia
(item 1927), vol. 1, p. 235-248.
Reprinted and updated in: Resumen histrico del Ecuador, 1830-930, 1947 (item 1968), vol.
1, p. 145-164.
5781. Luna Tobar, Alfredo. La doctrina martima latinoamericana. Quito: Industrias Grf.
CYMA, 1972. 157 p.
Regarding the then advent guarde extension of maritime boundaries from 12 to 200 miles, of
which Ecuador was one of the leading proponents.
5782. Luna Vegas, Emilio. Per y Ecuador en cinco siglos. Lima: Okura Editores, 1986.
xv, 223 p.
5783. Martz, John D. El destino de un pas pequeo: Ecuador en asuntos internacionales,
Sntesis: revista documental de ciencias sociales iberoamericanas (ene./abr. 1992), 317-335.
5784. Martz, Mary Jane Reid. Ecuador and the Eleventh Inter-American Conference,
Journal of Inter-American Studies, 10:2 (Apr. 1968), 306-327.
Explains why the Conference was never held. Takes into account conditions in Ecuador itself
as well as throughout the hemisphere.
5785. Medina Castro, Manuel. Ecuador pas ocupado: los yankis en el Oriente. Guayaquil:
Departamento de Publicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil,
1987. 121 p.
5786. Parks, E. Taylor; and J. Fred Rippy. The Galapagos Islands: A Neglected Phase of
American Strategy Diplomacy, The Pacific Historical Review, 9:1 (Mar. 1940), 37-45.
5787. Parra Prez, Caracciolo. Fuerza presente de la doctrina bolivariana: la visita al
Ecuador del Canciller de Venezuela Dr. C. Parra Prez, Instituto Ecuatoriano-Venezolano de
Cultura. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad, 1943. 274 p.
5788. Pattee, Richard. Garca Moreno y su poltica internacional ecuatoriana, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 17:50/53 (ene./jun. 1939), 185-208.
5789. Prez Concha, Jorge. Eloy Alfaro ante el derecho internacional americano,
Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 9:25/26 (ene. 1959-dic. 1960), 42-51.
5790. Prez Concha, Jorge. Honorato Vzquez ante el Rey de Espaa, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 4:13/14 (1955), 19-45.
5791. Prez Serrano, Jorge. El tercero en la discordia: la actuacin internacional del
Ecuador en el conflicto de Leticia y antecedentes histrico-diplomticos de la misma. Quito:
Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1936. 391 p.
5792. Perrier, Georges. La Rpublique de lEquateur: aperu general: relations entre
lEquateur et la France. Paris: Editions France-Amerique, 1937. 76 p.
5793. Pitt, Thomas Allen. Eloy Alfaro and Ecuadors Andean Diplomacy, 1895-1911.
1976. iv, 417 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia.
5794. Presencia ecuatoriana en la Antrtica. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, Instituto
de Diplomacia y Ciencias Internacionales, 1986. 393 p.
5795. Quevedo, Antonio. Sobre poltica externa ecuatoriana en la post-guerra. Quito:
Universidad Central, 1945. 112 p.
Also published in: Anales de la Universidad Central, 72:321 (ene./dic. 1944), 8-94.
5796. Relaciones Ecuador-Comunidad Europea 1992: realidades y perspectivas: breve
memoria del Seminario Internacional, Guayaquil marzo 1990. Quito: ILDIS, 1990. 97 p.
HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF ECUADOR
Vol. II
by
Michael T. Hamerly
GALAPAGOS
There are other picture books and travel guides that could have been included here, but such
coffee table books and Baedekers add little, if anything, to the historiography of the islands.
Nonetheless, one such work that I would be remiss in not mentioning is Tui De Roy Moores
Galapagos, Islands Lost in Time (New York: Viking Press, 1983) inasmuch as Tui (1953-), who
has lived in the islands since she was two years old, is an exceptionally sensitive observer and an
extraordinarily gifted photographer.
5839. Bognoli, Jos A.; and Jos Moiss Espinosa. Las Islas Encantadas, o, El Archipilago
de Coln. Guayaquil: Impr. del Comercio, 1905. 210 p.
A history of the Galpagos from their discovery in the sixteenth century through the early
1900s.
5840. Bonifaz Jijn, Cristbal. El Ecuador y las Islas Galpagos, Boletn de la Academia
Nacional de Historia, 54:118 (jul./dic. 1971), 311-319.
A superficial review of the human history of the islands.
5841. Borja, Rafael. Galpagos, mito y realidad. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1948. 164 p.
5842. Campos Plaza, Ernesto. Por las Galpagos. Guayaquil: Impr. y Tall. Municipales,
1953. 200 p.
Contents: Lo que uno vive; Narraciones tradicionales; Reportajes.
5843. Castillo, Abel Romeo. Galpagos: notas e impresiones, Revista, Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1:2 (ene./mar. 1964), 13-24.
5844. Conway, Ainslie. The Enchanted Islands. New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1947. vii,
280 p.
An account of the authors and his spouses life in the islands, mostly on Floreana, in the late
1930s and early 1940s. See also the sequel thereto: Ainslie and Frances Conways Return to the
Island. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1952. 199 p.
5845. Documentos para la historia de las Islas Galpagos, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 175-181.
5846. Dugard, Jane. The Influence of the Galpagos Islands on Charles Darwin and the
Subsequent Development of His Theory of Evolution, UNISA/Latin American Report, 7:2
(1991), 4-15.
Eminently readable.
5847. Galpagos, the Flow of Wildness, photographs by Eliot Porter, introduction by Loren
Eiseley, with selections from Herman Melville [et al.] Washington, D.C.: Sierra Club ; New
York: Ballantine, 1970. 2 v.
An anthology of old and new descriptions and impressions of the islands. Lavishly illustrated.
5848. Hickman, John. The Enchanted Islands: the Galpagos Discovered. Dover, N.H.:
Tanager Books, 1985. 169 p.
A well written survey of the history of the islands.
5849. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. El Archipilago de Coln (Galpagos): descubrimiento,
exploraciones cientficas y bibliografa de las islas, 2 ed. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1960. 423 p.
A solid history, especially of explorations, and bibliography of the islands. Includes and
incorporates Larreas previous articles and other studies on the Galpagos.
5850. Latorre, Octavio. La maldicin de la Tortuga: historias trgicas de las Islas
Galpagos. 2a ed. Quito: O. Latorre, 1992. 226 p.
A popular history of the island. Also published by the author in English as: The Curse of the
Giant Tortoise: Tragedies, Mysteries and Crimes in the Galapagos Islands. 237 p.
5851. Marder, Ren; and Carlos Arcos G. Normas societarias, actitudes, grupos de poder y
conflicto en Galpagos: documento para discusin. Quito: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del
Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, 1985. 211 p.
5852. Martnez, Nicols G. Impresiones de un viaje. Quito: Tall. de Polica Nacional, 1915.
120 p.
Reprinted at least twice as: Impresiones de un viaje al Archipilago de Galpagos (Ambato,
1919); and as: Impresiones de un viaje a Galpagos (Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1934).
5853. McEwan, Alec. The English Place-Names of the Galpagos, Geographical Journal,
154:2 (July 1988), 234-242.
5854. Naveda, Bolvar H. Galpagos a la vista. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1952. 570 p.
5855. Nieuwolt, Simon. Climatic Uniformity and Diversity in the Galapagos Islands and the
Effects on Agriculture, Erdkunde: Archiv fr Wissenschaftliche Geographie, 45:2 (1991), 135142.
5856. Nuez Snchez, Jorge; and Luisa Rodrguez Villouta. Galpagos, patrimonio natural
de la humanidad. Quito: Cientfica Latina Editores, 1983. 199 p. (Enciclopedia de las
provincias del Ecuador; no. 1).
5857. Prez, Efran. Resea histrica de las instituciones jurdicas galapaguenses. Quito:
Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1985. 70 p.
5858. Plan maestro de desarrollo conservacionista de la Provincia de Galpagos:
Galpagos, patrimonio natural de la humanidad. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo,
Secretara General de Planificacin, 1988. 5 v.
5859. Porter, David. A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1812, 1813, and 1814: with
Particular Details of the Gallipagos [sic] and Washington Islands. London: Sir. R. Phillips,
1823. 126 p.
5860. Reck, Gunter K. Relaciones biogeogrficas y distribucin de algunas especies
marinas de inters comercial en las Islas Galpagos, Cultura, 8:24a (ene./abr. 1986), 241-255.
5861. Rendn, Paulette de. Galpagos, las ltimas islas encantadas. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1946. 205 p.
Reprinted: Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1971. 163 p.
5862. Robinson, William Albert. Voyage to Galapagos. New York: Harcourt, Brace and
Company, 1936. viii, 279 p.
5863. Slevin, Joseph Richard. The Galapagos Islands: a History of Their Exploration. San
Francisco: California Academy of Sciences, 1959. 150 p.
5864. Steadman, David W.; and Steven Zousmer. Galpagos: Discovery on Darwins
Islands. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988. 208 p.
An account of the natural history and fauna of the islands. Superbly illustrated.
5865. Strauch, Dora; and Walter Brockmann. Satan Came to Eden. New York: Harper &
Brothers, 1936. xii, 274 p.
The grisly tale of the Baroness Bouquet de Wagner and her ill fated paramours.
5866. Sylva Charvet, Paola. Colonialismo y colonizacin de las Islas Galpagos: un doble
proceso depredador, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 711-723.
5867. Sylva Charvet, Paola. Las Islas Galpagos en la historia del Ecuador, Nueva historia
del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 12, p. 253-303.
A solid survey of the history of the archipelago and of individual islands through 1985.
5868. Thronton, Ian W.B. Darwins Islands: a Natural History of the Galapagos. Garden
City, N.Y.: Doubleday for the American Museum of Natural History, 1971. xiv, 322 p.
5869. Villamil, Francisco Jos de. Una excursin al Archipilago en 1842, Boletn de la
Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil, 1:1 (mar. 1910), 5-11.
Villamils account of his 1842 excursion to the Galapagos in search of guano. Published by
Camilo Destruge.
5870. Wittmer, Margaret. Floreana: a Womans Pilgrimage to the Galapagos, translated
from the German by Oliver Coburn. Mount Kisco, N.Y.: Moyer Bell, 1989. 240 p.
The memoirs of 56 years in the islands (1932-1988).
5871. Wolf, Theodor. Apuntes sobre el clima de las Islas Galpagos: segn las
observaciones hechas durante un viaje en los meses de agosto a noviembre de 1873. Quito:
Impr. Nacional, 1879. 11 p.
NORTH COAST
By the north coast is meant the Province of Esmeraldas. Three other important work that
should be included here are: 1) Miguel Cabello Balboas 1589 Verdadera descripcin y relacin
larga de la Provincia y tierra de las Esmeraldas in vol. 1 of his Obras as compiled, edited, and
published by Jacinto Jijn y Caamao (Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1945), p. 1-76; 2) Juan B.
Ceriolas Esmeraldas en su centenario, y, Gua comercial de Manab: monografa de las dos
provincias (Guayaquil: Tip. de J.T. Foyain, 1922; 139 p.); and 3) and Joseph Palop Martnez and
5872. Acosta Sols, Misael. El noroccidente ecuatoriano: geografa y ecologa de Lito a San
Lorenzo, cubierta vegetal y reconocimiento botnico forestal, agricultura y sugerencias en favor
del mejor aprovechamiento de las tierras. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales,
1959. 147 p.
5873. Acosta Sols, Misael. Nuevas contribuciones al conocimiento de la Provincia de
Esmeraldas. Quito: Edit. Ecuador, 1944. 606 p.
A detailed study of the geography of the province. Includes considerable data on the Chachis
(formerly and still popularly known as Cayapas), the state of the economy, and the school
system.
5874. Alcina Franch, Jos. El problema de las poblaciones negroides de Esmeraldas,
Anuario de estudios americanos, 31 (1974), 33-46.
5875. Alcina Franch, Jos; and Remedios de la Pea. Patrones de asentamiento indgena en
Esmeraldas durante los siglos XVI y XVII, Actes du XLIIe Congrs international des
amricanistes: Paris, 1976, vol. 9a (Paris: Fondation Singer-Polignac, 1979), p. 283-301.
5876. Alcina Franch, Jos; Encarnacin Moreno; and Remedios de la Pea. Penetracin
espaola en Esmeraldas (Ecuador): tipologa del descubrimiento, Revista de Indias, 36:143/144
(ene./jun. 1976), 65-121.
Delineates and analyzes Spanish attempts to incorporate the North coast of Ecuador into the
established colony, with special emphasis on opening and maintaining a road between Quito and
the North coast.
5877. Campesinado y organizacin en Esmeraldas, Fredy Rivera [et al.]. Quito: Centro
Andino de Accin Popular; [Esmeraldas?]: Organizacin Campesina Musine-Esmeraldas, 1986.
213 p.
5878. Collin Delavaud, Anne. Nouvelles transformations des zones de colonisation agricole
sur la ct de lEquateur: Quininde, Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brsilien (Caravelle),
34 (1980), 99-115.
5879. Durand Lpez-Hurtado, Eduardo. Problems in Three New Land Settlement in Andean
Countries. The Hague: Institute of Social Studies, 1987. 59 p.
A study of new settlements in Colombia, specifically in Caqueta, and in the Province of
Esmeraldas.
Examines the labeling and usage of racial categories in a changing political economy. See
also Schuberts larger study (item 5900).
5900. Schubert, Grace. Thats the Way It Is Here: An Ethnoscientific Approach to Racial
Identity in San Lorenzo, Ecuador. 1979. xxii, 301 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of
Wisconsin, Madison.
A follow up as it were to Whittens earlier, pioneering study (item 5909).
5901. Speiser, Sabine. Leben ist mehr als Uberleben: Afroamerikanische Totenriten in
Esmeraldas (Ekuador) und ihr Beitrag zur kulturellen Kontinuitt. Saarbrken: Breittenbach,
1989. 250 p.
The authors doctoral dissertation (Universitt Regensburg). A study of religious beliefs and
practices, including Voodooism, among Afro-Ecuadorians.
5902. Speiser, Sabine. Sklaverei in Ekuador: eine Geschichte hinterlt ihre Spuren,
Slavery in the Americas, edited by Wolfgang Binder (Wrzburg: Knigshausen and Neumann,
1993), p. 365-388.
Sketches the history of Afro-Ecuadorians in Esmeraldas. Pieced together from a variety of
published materials, but overlooks the basic Documentos para la historia de la Audiencia de
Quito (item 1375).
5903. Speiser, Sabine. Tradiciones afro-esmeraldeas. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1985.
55 p.
5904. Szszdi, Adm. El transfondo de un cuadro: Los mulatos de Esmeraldas de Andrs
Snchez Galque, Cuadernos prehispnicos, 12 (1986-1987), 93-142.
As of July 1997, the most detailed study of the history of the north coast during the early
colonial period. Based almost entirely on original research in the Archivo General de Indias.
5905. Thomsen, Moritz. The Farm on the River Esmeraldas. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1978. 329 p.
The sequel to Living Poor (item 5906). After his Peace Corps experience, Thomsen settled in
rural Esmeraldas.
5906. Thomsen, Moritz. Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1969. ix, 314 p.
An exceptionally sensitive account of a former volunteers field experience in and around Ro
Verde (also sometimes written Rioverde) in the Canton of Esmeraldas. Beautifully written. Also
published as: Meat Is for Special Days: Pride and Poverty in a Village in Ecuador. London:
Souvenir Press, 1971.
5907. Villalba F., Jorge. Contribucin de los jesuitas a la apertura del camino a Esmeraldas:
1644, Revista del Ncleo de Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:24 (jul.
1979), 22-42.
5908. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Black Frontiersmen: A South American Case. Cambridge,
Mass.: Schenkman, 1974. xvii, 221 p.
Supplements items 5909. This work, however, is broader in scope inasmuch as it examines
Afro-Hispanic culture throughout the Pacific lowlands of northern Ecuador and Colombia.
Nonetheless, it incorporates the results of additional field research undertaken in San Lorenzo in
1968. Also published in Spanish as: Pioneros negros: la cultura afro-latinoamericana del
Ecuador y de Colombia. Quito: Centro Cultural Afro-Ecuatoriano, 1992. xxii, 252 p.
5909. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Class, Kinship, and Power in an Ecuadorian Town: The
Negroes of San Lorenzo. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1965. viii, 238 p.
An important ethnographic study that is well worth reading, notwithstanding the
anthropological jargon in which it is written. Based on the authors doctoral dissertation: An
Analysis of Social Structure and Change: Profile of a Northwest Ecuadorian Town. 1964. xv,
347 leaves. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Also published in Spanish as: Clase,
parentesco y poder en un pueblo ecuatoriano : los negros de San Lorenzo. Quito: Centro
Cultural Afroecuatoriano, 1997. 248 p.
5910. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. The Ecology of Race Relations in Northwest Ecuador,
Journal de la Socit des amricanistes, 58 (1969), 222-233.
Also published in Spanish as: Ecologa de las relaciones raciales al noreste del Ecuador,
Amrica indgena, 30:2 (abr./jun. 1970), 345-358.
5911. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Personal Networks and Musical Contexts in the Pacific
Lowlands of Colombia and Ecuador, Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary
Perspectives, edited by Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and John F. Szwed (New York: The Free Press,
1970), p. 203-217.
Reprinted from: Man, 3:1 (Mar. 1968), 50-63.
5912. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Strategies of Adaptive Mobility in the ColombianEcuadorian Littoral, Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by
Norman E. Whitten, Jr. and John F. Szwed (New York: The Free Press, 1970), p. 329-344.
Reprinted from: American Anthropologist, 71:2 (Apr. 1969), 228-242.
5913. Acosta Sols, Misael. Vistazo desde Quito a la costa manabita siguiendo el antiguo
sendero de Aloag y Chone y Baha de Carquez, Revista geogrfica (Quito), 18 (1983), 30-39.
5914. Alsedo y Herrera, Dionisio. Compendio histrico de la Provincia, partidos, ciudades,
astilleros, ros, y puerto de Guayaquil en las costas de la Mar del Sur. Madrid: M. Fernndez,
1741, [32], 99 p.
A major early-eighteenth-century account of the port city and its province. Includes the
earliest known map of Santiago de Guayaquil. Although some scholars, apparently including
Aurelio Espinosa Plit as well as Manuel Mara Plit Laso, attribute this work to Jacinto Morn
de Butrn, a guayaquileo, a Jesuit, and the author of La azucena de Quito (item 3417), I do not
doubt that Alsedo y Herrera wrote it himself inasmuch as he was a competent and prolific scholar
in his own right. It is possible, however, that Alsedo y Herrera made use of material provided by
Morn de Butrn. N.B. The 1879, 1938, and 1987 Guayaquil editions of this work should be
avoided as they are not wholly faithful to Alsedo, the editors and/or printers not having
transcribed the original typeface correctly in every instance. The photofacismile reprint (Madrid:
Tip. Clsica Espaola, 1946), unfortunately, is as rare, if not rarer than, the original edition,
having been issued in only 100 copies.
5915. Alvarez, Silvia G. Artesanas y tradicin tnica en la Pennsula de Santa Elena,
Artesanas de Amrica (Cuenca), 25 (dic. 1987), 45-119.
5916. Alvarez, Silvia G. Los comuneros de Santa Elena: tierra, familia y propiedad. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional; Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 175 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias
sociales; 34)
An ethnohistorical study of the communes or Indian/mestizo communities of Chanduy, Morro,
Chongn, Pun, Colonche, and Punta de Santa Elena. Strongest on the eighteenth, nineteenth,
and twentieth centuries.
5917. Alvarez, Silvia G. Recuperacin y defensa de territorio tnico: el caso de Chanduy en
la costa del Ecuador, Boletn de antropologa americana, 15 (jul. 1987), 105-121.
5918. Alvarez, Silvia G. Recuperacin y defensa de territorio tnico en la costa ecuatoriana:
el caso de la antigua comunidad indgena de Chanduy, en la Pennsula de Santa Elena, Boletn
americanista, 30:38 (1988), 117-139.
5919. Andrade, Manuel de Jess. Provincia de El Oro: monografas cantonales: Zaruma.
Quito: Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1923. 144 p.
Primarily a history of the Canton of Zaruma.
5920. Apuntes para la historia de Manab. Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, Museo
Antropolgico, 1987. 32 p.
Includes research notes by Julio Estrada Ycaza, Olaf Holm, and Octavio Latorre.
5921. Aruz, Maritza. El mestizje en las sociedades rurales en la costa ecuatoriana:
Montecristi y Jipijapa, Quitumbe, 9 (jun. 1995), 37-54.
A preliminary study of utilization of petitions of declaration of mestizje to escape payment of
tribute and to improve ones socioeconomic status in other ways too, by individuals who were
apparently members of the native elite of Montecristi and Jipijpapa, regardless of the mixed
nature of their biological ancestors. N.B. Montecristi (not modern Manta) is the successor
pueblo to prehispanic Jocoy and therefore early-colonial period Manta.
5922. Arosemena, Guillermo. El fruto de los dioses: el cacao en el Ecuador, desde la
colonia hasta el ocaso de su industria, 1600-1983, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Edit. Graba, 1991. 2 v.
(855 p.)
Although Arosemena is not a professional historian, he adds chronologically and substantively
to the history of the cacao trade and brings an entrepreneurs perspective to the discussion of the
role of cacao in the history of Ecuador, especially of the coast and the port city, in this basic
work. Furthermore, Arosemena himself has had first hand experience in the trade.
5923. Autos sobre nombramientos de tenientes de corregidores, Revista del Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 2:3 (jun. 1973), 127-142.
Publishes official appointments of lieutenant corregidores from 1579-1603.
5924. Ayala S., Jorge. Pennsula de Santa Elena. Santa Elena: Municipalidad del Cantn
Santa Elena, 1978. 183 p.
5925. Balslev, Henrik; Jens Madsen; and Robert L. Mix. Las plantas y el hombre en Isla
Pun. Guayaquil: Universidad Laica Vicente Rocafuerte; Museo Antropolgico, Banco Central
del Ecuador, 1988. 67 p.
An ethobotanical study.
5926. Barrera, Angel T. Apuntes respecto del Cantn Vinces. Quito: Impr. Nacional 1908.
33 p.
5927. Bengston, Nels A. Some Essential Features of the Geography of the Santa Elena
Peninsula, Ecuador, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 14:3 (Sept. 1924),
150-158.
5928. Bogin, Barry. Climate Change and Human Behavior on the Southwest Coast of
Ecuador, Central Issues in Anthropology, 4:1 (June 1982), 21-32.
5929. Brownrigg, Leslie Ann. Economic and Ecological Strategies of Lojano Migrants to El
Oro, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 303-326.
A study of spontaneous migration of lojanos, possibly a submerged ethnic [i.e., indigenous]
group and the largest group of migrants in El Oro, to the previously sparsely populated foothills
of the province.
5930. Buchwald, Otto von. Notas etnolgicas del Ecuador occidental, Boletn de la
Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos Americanos, 4:11 (mayo/abr. 1920), 285-293.
5931. Caicedo, Emiliano. Apuntes histricos, geogrficos, biogrficos y estadsticos del
Cantn Daule, 3 ed., corr., aum. e ilus. Guayaquil: Libr., Papelera y Tip. Gutenberg de
Uzctegui & Ca., 1908. 90 p.
Cover title: El Cantn Daule en la Exposicin Internacional de Quito con motivo del
centenario del 10 de agosto de 1809.
5932. Campos, Jos Antonio. Historia documentada de la Provincia de Guayaquil,
Cultura, 6:17 (sept./dic. 1983), 235-300.
Selections from a work previously available only in manuscript. Based mostly on the actas de
cabildo of the port city (item 6789). Beware the element of fiction, however. See also item
6737.
5933. Crdenas Jos Corsino. Ensayo histrico de la economa histrica. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1995. 208 p. (Biblioteca de historia econmica; 6)
A study of the cacao, banana, and petroleum cycles. Therefore, primarily an economic history
of the central-south coast and of the Oriente. Unfortunately, poorly researched and superficial in
analysis.
5934. Collin Delavaud, Anne. Manab, una regin costera marcada por su desarrollo
original, Revista geogrfica, 25 (1987), 53-75.
5935. Contreras C., Carlos. Guayaquil y su regin en el primer boom cacaotero (17501820), Historia y regin en el Ecuador, 1830-1930 (item 6591), p. 189-250.
An abridgement of Contrerass masters thesis (item 5936).
5936. Contreras C., Carlos. El sector exportador de una economa colonial: la costa del
Ecuador entre 1760 y 1830, 1 ed. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales,
FLACSO, Sede Ecuador: Abya-Yala, 1990. 192 p.
An original masters thesis on the export sector of the coast during the late colonial,
independence, and Gran Colombian periods. Argues that the economy was less dependent upon
cacao than other researchers, especially Hamerly (see item 5976), have maintained. Includes new
data from the Archivo General Nacional of Peru.
5937. Chvez, Rodolfo A. Gua del Cantn Sucre en correlacin con Manab. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Nacionales, 1947. 324 p.
5938. Chvez Gonzlez, Rodrigo. Estudios de idiosincrasia regional, Anales de la
Universidad Central, 55:294 (oct./dic. 1934), 455-535.
Should be read as a statement by a guayaquileo and an intellectual as to why costeos are the
way they are and how they came to be that way. Reprinted in: Indianistas, indianofilos,
indigenistas(item 7946), p. 291-373.
5939. Chvez Gonzlez, Rodrigo. Historia de la Provincia de El Oro desde la etapa
aborigen. Machala: [s.n.], 1968. 82 p.
5940. Chiriboga, Manuel. Jornaleros y gran propietarios en 135 aos de exportacin
cacaotera: 1790-1925. Quito: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Socio-Econmicos, 1980.
435 p.
Takes up where Hamerly left off (see item 5976). A quantitative and qualitative study of the
economic, social, and political history of the coast and of Guayaquil from the 1840s through the
first half of the 1920s, with background chapters on related developments during the preceding
half century and sidebars on what was happening in the highlands. An exceptionally important
contribution to the history of the national period. Unfortunatey marred by many typographical
errors. See also items 2388-2390.
5941. Chiriboga, Manuel; and Renato Piccino. La produccin campesina cacaotera:
problemas y perspectivas. Cuenca: Centro de Capacitacin Campesina del Azuay: Quito: Centro
de Arte y Accin Popular, 1982. 120 p.
5942. Datos geogrficos, histricos, estadsticos y biogrficos del Cantn Babahoyo,
publicados por el ilustre Concejo Municipal para la Exposicin Internacional de Quito.
Guayaquil: Imp. la Reforma, 1909. 73 p.
A licentiate thesis on the social and economic history of northern Manab, especially of Baha
de Carquez and its hinterland, from the eve of the Spanish conquest through the early twentieth
century.
5952. Dueas de Anhalzer, Carmen. Soberana e insurreccin en Manab. Quito: Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 1991. 146 p.
The authors masters thesis. In this work, she focuses on the nineteenth century and took in
the whole of the province. For her doctoral dissertation see item 1651.
5953. Ecuador, visin global del desarrollo de la costa, direccin y redaccin, Washington
Macas, Emilio Ochoa. Guayaquil: Fundacin Pedro Vicente Maldonado para las Ciencias del
Hombre y de la Tierra: PMRC Ecuador, 1989. 233 p.
A survey of the economic history of the coast from the Formative period through the 1980s.
5954. Ernholm, Ivan. Cacao Production of South America: Historical Development and
Present Geographical Distribution. Gothenburg: C.R. Holmqvists, 1948. 279 p.
A classic work. Still useful for placing the cacao trade of the coast in global context.
5955. Espinosa, Roque. Parentesco y reproduccin en Manab: el caso de Membrillal.
Quito: Fundacin Ecolgica Ecuatoriana: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1990. 221 p.
A social and economic study of the rural community of San Antonio de Membrillal.
5956. Espinoza, Leonardo; and Ivn Gonzlez. Visin histrica del Cantn y de la ciudad
de La Troncal, Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 7 (1987), 63-81.
An essay on the emergence of the Canton of La Troncal (1983), formerly part of Manuel J.
Calle, itself originally a rural parish in the Canton of Caar. Also discusses the rivalry and
boundary dispute with the simultaneously established neighboring Canton of El Triunfo in the
Province of Guayas.
5957. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Apuntes de don Clemente Yerovi Indaburu sobre la navegacin
fluvial, Revista del Instituto de Historia Martima, 1 (dic. 1986), 69-82.
5958. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Extracto de noticias sobre navegacin en los peridicos del
siglo XIX: 1821-1860, Revista del Instituto de Historia Martima, 6 (jun. 1989), 69-76.
5959. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Extracto de noticias sobre navegacin en los peridicos del
siglo XIX: 1861-1900, Revista del Instituto de Historia Martima, 10 (jul. 1991), 97-116.
5960. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. El siglo de los vapores fluviales, 1840-1940, Revista del
Instituto de Historia Martima, 8 (jun. 1990), 47-63.
5961. Estrada Ycaza, Julio; and Clemente Yerovi Indaburu. El siglo de los vapores fluviales,
1840-1940. Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1992. xv, 287 p.
A well written and illustrated history of the steamboats that plied the Guayas River Basin and
the coastal waters of Ecuador. A delight to read. Replete with the vignettes that only an insider
like Yerovi Indaburu could recount. Incorporates items 5957-5960.
5972. Guevara, Manuel de. Informe de don Manuel de Guevara sobre el fomento de la
agricultura en la Provincia de Guayaquil: ao 1785, Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia,
Seccin del Azuay, 8 (1989), 140-159.
5973. Hall, Basil. Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico,
in the years 1820, 1821, 1822, 3rd ed. Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1824. 2 v.
Hall (1788-1844) spent some time in and around Guayaquil in late 1821 and early 1822 (see
especially vol. 2, p. 105-143). Available in numerous editions and modern reprints. Also
translated into French in whole and Spanish in part: e.g., Una descripcin indita de Guayaquil,
Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas,8:18/20 (1950), 45-54.
5974. Hamerly, Michael T. Acotaciones a Documentos inditos sobre e impresos raros de
la Sociedad Econmica de Amigos del Pas, de Guayaquil, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 21:38 (1971), 3-12.
Supplements item 5975.
5975. Hamerly, Michael T. Documentos inditos sobre e impresos raros de la Sociedad
Econmica de Amigos del Pas, de Guayaquil, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 20:37
(1970), 3-56.
Consists of research notes on and primary sources for the reconstruction of the history of the
little known Sociedad Econmica de Amigos del Pas de Guayaquil.
5976. Hamerly, Michael T. Historia social y econmica de la antigua Provincia de
Guayaquil, 1763-1842, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1973. xx, 212 p.
A revision of authors Ph.D. thesis: A Social and Economic History of the City and District of
Guayaquil during the Late Colonial and Independence Periods. 1970. 274 leaves. University of
Florida. The path breaking demographic, economic, and social history of the port city and its
province during the neocolonial period. Reissued in an unauthorized: 2 ed., corr. Guayaquil:
Banco Central del Ecuador, Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1987. xviii, 216 p. N.B. Not all of
the corrections are those of the author.
5977. Hidrovo Peaherrera, Horacio. Esperanza y desesperanza del montubio manabita.
Portoviejo: Grf. Ramrez, 1991. 151 p.
5978. La Identidad de Manab: realidad actual y perspctivas, seminario organizado por la
Corporacin de Estudios para el Desarrollo, CORDES, y la Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro de
Manab, ULEAM, del 14 al 17 de diciembre del 1992, 1 ed. Quito: CORDES; Portoviejo:
ULEAM, 1993. 281 p.
5979. Instituto Nacional de Colonizacin (Ecuador). Primer plan piloto de colonizacin
Santo Domingo de los Colorados: proyecto preliminar. Quito: Instituto Nacional de
Colonizacin, 1958. ii, 264 p.
5980. Investigacin documental sobre la formacin poltico-administrativo y otros
documentos socioeconmicos de la Provincia de El Oro, Ral Mrquez Bararatta [recopilador].
Machala: Universidad Tcnica de Machala, Facultad de Sociologa, Departamento de
Investigaciones Socioeconmicas, 1984. 266 p.
See also Lavianas Comercio y fisco: los productos de la aduana de Guayaquil (17571804), Europa e Iberoamrica: cinco siglos de intercambios: actas, IX Congreso Internacional
de Historia de Amrica (Sevilla: Asociacin de Historiadores Latinoamericanos Europeos
[AHILA]; Consejera de Cultura y Medio Ambiente [Junta de Andaluca], 1992), vol. 2, p. 599615.
5988. Laviana Cuetos, Mara Luisa. Un proceso por brujera en la costa ecuatoriana a fines
del siglo XVIII: la Punta de Santa Elena, 1784-1787, Anuario de estudios americanos, 46
(1989), 93-129.
An analysis of an investigation of witches, sorcerers, and native healers in the Peninsula
of Santa Elena. Demonstrates that many indigenous beliefs and practices persisted long after the
ethnic groups of the littoral were supposed to have been fully evangelized, at least as late as the
1780s when the pesquiza, on which this study is based, took place. Also published as: Brujera,
curanderismo y religin en la Pennsula de Santa Elena a fines del siglo XVIII in: Encuentro de
Investigadores de la Costa Ecuatoriana en Europa (1: 1993: Barcelona, Espaa). Primer
Encuentro de Investigadores de la Costa Ecuatoriana en Europa: arqueologa, etnohistoria,
antropologa sociocultural, [edicin de] Alvarez, Aurelio [et al.], 1 ed. (Quito: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1995) p. 399-432, bibl.
5989. Laviana Cuetos, Mara Luisa. Las salinas de la Peninsula de Santa Elena en el siglo
XVIII, Estudios de historia social y econmica de Amrica, 1 (1985), 91-110.
5990. Lentz, Carola. Buscando la vida: trabajadores temporales de una plantacin de
azcar. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 204 p.
Originally published in German as: Saisonarbeiter auf einer Zuckerrohrplantge in Ecuador:
buscando la vida ... auf der Suche nach dem Leben. Aachen: Edition Heordot/Rader-Verlag,
1986. 142 p. A study of seasonal workers in sugarcane production from the 1950s through the
early 1980s. Not surprisingly the overwhelmingly majority of migrant laborers were/are Indians
from the highlands.
5991. Lenz-Volland, Birgit; and Martin Volland. Algunas noticias acerca de los caciques de
Daule durante el siglo XVII: estudio preliminar, Memorias del primer Simposio Europeo sobre
Antropologa del Ecuador (item 603), p. 189-200.
5992. Lenz-Volland, Birgit; and Martin Volland. Distribucin geogrfica y tcnicas de la
pesca en la costa ecuatoriana durante el perodo colonial, Contribuciones para el estudio de la
pesca artesanal en Amrica Latina: Proceedings of the Mini-Symposium on Small-Scale
Fisheries of the 46th International Congress of Americanists, 4-8 July 1988, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, edited by Max Agero (Manila: International Center for Living Aquatic Resources
Management, 1992), p. 92-113.
5993. Lenz-Volland, Birgit; and Martin Volland. Indianische Meersalzproduktion im
kolonialzeitlichen Ecuador, Beitrge zur Kulturgeschichte des westlichen Sdamerika, Albert
Meyers, Martin Volland (Hrsg.) (Opladen: Westdeutschler Verlag, 1990), p. 86-112.
5994. Leonard, Olen E. Pichilingue: A Study of Rural Life in Coastal Ecuador. Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations, 1947. 35 p. (Foreign
Agriculture Report; no. 17)
6005. Madero Moreira, Mauro. La Provincia de El Oro en 1934. Guayaquil: [s.n.], 1934. 1
v. (not paginated)
6006. Matamoros Jara, Carlos. Geografa del Cantn Daule. Guayaquil: Impr. Progreso,
1911. viii, 32 p.
6007. McEwan, Colin; C. Hudson; and Mara Isabel Silva. Archaeology and Community: a
Village Cultural Center and Museum in Ecuador, Practicing Anthropology, 16:1 (Winter 1994),
3-7.
Examines the impact of the creation of Machalilla National Park on Agua Blanca in Manab
and the interaction between the community and the park. See also item 3857.
6008. Mendoza, Virgilio J. Monografa descriptiva de la Provincia de El Oro. Cuenca:
Publisher, 1946. 144 p.
Supposed to have been a multi-part set, but this was the only vol. published.
6009. Muoz, Julio H. Geopoltica de la Provincia de Los Ros y del estado ecuatoriano.
Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1935. 310 p.
6010. Navas V., Jos Buenaventura. Monografa histrica e ilustrada del Cantn Daule.
Guayaquil: Impr. Comercial, 1931. 216 p.
6011. Navas V., Jos Buenaventura. Monografa histrica e ilustrada del Cantn Jipijapa.
Guayaquil: Impr. Guayaquil, 1933. 212 p.
6012. Navas V., Jos Buenaventura. Monografa histrica e ilustrada del Cantn Urdaneta.
Guayaquil: Tip. Excelsior, 1919. 127 p.
6013. Navas V., Jos Buenaventura. Monografa histrica e ilustrada del Cantn Vinces.
Guayaquil: Impr. Guayaquil, 1924. 120 p.
Items 6010-6013 are exceptionally important, profusely illustrated accounts of local
developments and events of the late-nineteenth and early- twentieth centuries in the Provinces of
El Oro, Guayas, Los Ros, and Manab. See also the authors Monografa histrica e ilustrada
de la Parroqua de Manglaralto (Guayaquil: Impr. y Lit. El Comercio, 1923; 77 p.). Navas V. is
also known to have published monografas histricas e ilustradas of the Province of Manab
(1933) and the Canton of Santa Elena (1927), but I have been unable to flesh out their
bibliographic particulars.
6014. Ojeda Segovia, Lautaro. Estructura productiva y micro-oligarqua durante la poca
cacaotera: el caso de Milagro, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 3:10/11 (1979), 11-28.
6015. Paniaga Prez, Jess. Estudio de algunas cofradas de la jurisdiccin de Guayaquil,
Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 9 (1992), 75-92.
An admittedly sketchy study of urban and rural cofradas in the district of Guayaquil during
the late 1700s and early 1800s. Based on research in the Archivo de la Curia Arzobispal de
Cuenca and Laviana Cuetoss Guayaquil en el siglo XVIII (item 5985). Does not take into
account Huertas indispensable Las cofradas guayaquileas (item 6807).
6016. Paredes Ramrez, Willington. Economa y sociedad en la costa: siglo XIX, Nueva
historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 7, p. 103-139.
Sketches economic and social developments in the former Province of Guayaquil and its
successor provinces during the nineteenth century.
6017. Parsons, James J. Bananas in Ecuador: A New Chapter in the History of Tropical
Agriculture, Economic Geography, 33:3 (July 1957), 201-216.
6018. Parsons, James J. Changes in the Economic Geography of Banana Production in
Ecuador, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 37 (Dec. 1965), 77-90.
6019. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. Los asentamientos de Colonche a travs de un juicio de
jurisdiccin, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 7:19/21 (dic. 1957), 141-182.
6020. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. Los Cayche-Chonana: principes, caciques principales y
seores naturales de Daule, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 11:27 (1961), 91-104.
Contains some useful information but mixes facts with fiction.
6021. Perfil socioeconmico de la Provincia de El Oro. Machala: Universidad Tcnica de
Machala, Facultad de Sociologa, 1979. 193 p.
6022. Per. Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores. La ocupacin de la Provincia de El Oro
por las fuerzas peruanas. Lima: El Ministerio, 1941. 19 p.
6023. Phillips, Lynne P. Co-operatives and Agrarian Transitions in Coastal Ecuador:
Implications for Neo-Liberalism, Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 30:4 (Nov.
1993), 429-450.
Examines agricultural cooperatives in the Guayas River Basin in transition to and within
capitalism. Maintains that the neoliberal policies of late-twentieth-century administrations
failed to provide solutions to the needs of cooperatives.
6024. Phillips, Lynne P. Gender, Class and Cultural Politics: A Case Study of Rural
Vinces, Ecuador. 1985. 220 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto.
6025. Phillips, Lynne P. Gender, Class and Development in Rural Coastal Ecuador.
Notre Dame, Ind.: The Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre
Dame, 1985. 46 p.
6026. Phillips, Lynne P. Gender Dynamics and Rural Household Strategies, Canadian
Review of Sociology and Anthropology, 26:2 (May 1989), 294-310.
A study of gender relationships in peasant, capitalist, and proletariat households in
Vinces.
6027. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Algunas riquezas del litoral vislumbradas en el primer siglo
colonial, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 31:43 (dic. 1981), 105-113.
6028. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Los esclavos de hace un siglo, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 1:1 (ene. 1951), 61-66.
6029. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. El gobernador del Guayas de 1862-64: (arreglo de un captulo
de la biografa indita del doctor Vicente Piedrahita), Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 51-88.
Apparently Pimentel Carbo never completed his biography of Piedrahita.
6030. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. La primera galera sudamericana construyse en Pun en el
siglo XVI, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 7:19/21 (dic. 1957), 49-54.
6031. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. El ltimo corregidor de Portoviejo, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 20:37 (1970), 254-262.
At head of title: Trozos de historia colonial. The last corregidor of Portoviejo was Pedro
Gonzlez.
6032. Pineo, Ronn. Guayaquil y su regin en el segundo boom cacaotero (1870-1925),
Historia y regin en el Ecuador, 1830-1930 (item 6591), p. 251-294.
A prcis of Pineos book on the port city and its hinterland during the second cacao boom
(item 6859).
6033. Quintana M., Lisandro. Monografa del Cantn Quevedo. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1988. 285 p.
6034. Quintana M., Manuel E. Los Ros, 2 ed., aum. y corr. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1956. 333 p.
The first edition was entitled: Monografa y album de Los Ros. Guayaquil: Reed and Reed,
1937. 348 p
6035. Redclift, Michael R. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Organisation in the Guayas Basin,
Ecuador, Inter-American Economic Affairs, 30:1 (Summer 1976), 3-27.
Interestingly enough Redclift argues that pressures for agrarian reform on the coast did not
come from below but from above, especially the Agency for International Development, a thesis
he expands upon in item 7815.
6036. Redclift, Michael R. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Organization on the Ecuadorian
Coast, Inter-American Economic Affairs, 30:1 (Summer 1976), 3-27.
Examines termination of sharecropping for rice in the Guayas Basin by executive decree and
the development of ex-sharecropper cooperatives aided by the government.
6037. Redclift, Michael R. Agrarian Reform and Peasant Organization on the Ecuadorian
Coast. London: Athlone Press, 1978. xi, 186 p.
A well researched and thoughtful introduction to economic and social conditions and
developments in the Guayas River Basin from the late- nineteenth century through the mid1970s. Not all scholars, however, agree with Redclifts interpretation of the course of events.
6038. Redclift, Michael R. El papel de las cooperativas agrcolas en la transformacin del
campesinado de la Cuenca del Guayas, Ecuador, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 3:10/11
(1979), 89-143.
Transcribed by Juan Freile Granizo with notes by Julio Estrada Ycaza. An exceptionally
important source for the reconstruction of the ethnohistory and historical demography of the
coast. Includes the results of the Toledo visita for several, apparently long since extinct,
Chono(?) pueblos in the vicinity of what is now Yaguachi Viejo.
6048. Stothert, Karen; and Jane Parker. El tejido de una alforja en la Peninsula de Santa
Elena, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 4:4 (1984), 141-160.
6049. Szszdi, Adm. Don Diego Tomal, cacique de la isla de la Pun, Estudios sobre
poltica indigenista espaola en Amrica (Valladolid: Universidad de Valladolid, Seminario de
Historia de Amrica, 1977), vol. 3, 157-182.
6050. Szszdi, Adm. Don Diego Tomal, cacique de la isla de la Pun: un caso de
aculturacin socioeconmica, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, Museo
Antropolgico, 1988. 42 p.
An ethnohistorical study of the caciques Diego, Francisco, and Lorenzo Tomal, the son,
grandson, and great grandson of Tumbal, the lord of the Punes, who allied with the Spaniards
against the Incas.
6051. Szszdi, Adm; and Dora Len Borja. Reconstruccin tentativa de la hidrografa de la
Provincia de Guayaquil en el siglo XVIII, Anuario de estudios americanos, 32 (1975), 447-483.
A major contribution to the historical geography of the coast.
6052. Terry, Adrian Russell. Travels in the Equatorial Regions of South America in 1832.
Hartford: Cooke & Co., 1834. 290 p.
The author, a Connecticut physician, spent six months in Ecuador, mostly in and around
Guayaquil, as the heavy rains of 1832 precluded travel to Quito and the highlands. Also
published in Spanish as: Viajes por la regin ecuatorial de Amrica del Sur. Quito: Ediciones
Abya-Yala, 1994. 225 p.
6053. Thyssen, Sophia. Balsas: Zur Geschichte der Holzfle an der ecuadorianischen
Kste, Beitrge zur Kulturgeschichte des westlichen Sdamerika, Albert Meyers, Martin
Volland (Hrsg.) (Opladen: Westdeutschler Verlag, 1990), p. 113-163.
6054. Thyssen, Sophia; and Martin Volland. Fischfanggerate und Techniken der
Kleinfischere an der Kste von Ecuador. Bonn: Holos, 1990. xi, 278 p.
6055. Uggen, John Forrest. Peasant Mobilization in Ecuador: A Case Study of Guayas
Province. 1975. xiii, 290 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Miami.
A study of land tenure and peasant movements in and around Milagro and Yaguachi from the
mid 1950s through the first half of the 1970s. Published in Spanish as: Tenencia de la tierra y
movilizaciones campesinas: zona de Milagro. Quito: ACLAS, 1990. 126 p.
6056. Ulloa S., Armando Gonzalo. El cultivo del algodonero, el crdito y la organizacin
ejidal colectiva en la Comarca Lagunera. Quito: Impr. del Ministerio del Tesoro, 1945. 270
p.
6057. Velarde S., Patricio Santo Domingo de los Colorados y el espacio nacional (18601960): desarrollo regional y crecimiento urbano. Quito: CIUDAD, 1991. 127 p.
Cover title: Aislamiento e integracin.
6058. Vliz Heredia, Antonio. Baba, Babahoyo: su origen colonial, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 155-158.
6059. Vliz Heredia, Antonio. Compendio histrico del Cantn Vinces, Boletn del Centro
de Investigaciones Histricas, 8:18/20 (1950), 97-104.
6060. Vliz Heredia, Antonio. Huancavilca, Guayaquil y Ro Guayas, Boletn del Centro
de Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 100-106.
6061. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. Geohistoria y geopoltica de Guayaquil y su regin,
Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 25:42 (1975), 95-144.
6062. Volland, Martin. Indianische Bevlkerungsgeschichte im Corregimiento Guayaquil
(1548-1765). Bonn: Holos Verlag, 1994. ix, 315 p. (Mundus Reihe Alt-Amerikanistik; Bd 10)
Vollands doctoral dissertation, presented at the Rheinishcen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitt
in Bonn. A history of the post-conquest decline and resurgence--apparently beginning sometime
during the early eighteenth century--of the autochthonous population of the former
Corregimiento of Guayaquil. The decimation of the ethnic groups of the district began circa
1531 and continued at least through 1605, if not later than that. The data thus far recovered for
the seventeenth century, however, are too scarce to determine approximately when the
indigenous population of the central-south coast ceased to decline or when it began to recover.
Also advances knowledge of history of encomiendas and repartimientos of the region. Expands
upon the work of Estrada Ycaza, Hamerly, and Laviana Cuetos, especially as presented in items
6588, 5795, and 5984. Based on several years of original research in Spanish, Ecuadorian, and
Colombian repositories.
6063. Wilkinson, A.F. Descripcin de la Isla de la Plata, Miscelnea antropolgica
ecuatoriana, 7:7 (1987), 123-128.
6064. Wolf, Theodor. Relacin de un viaje geognstico por la Provincia del Guayas. Quito:
Impr. Nacional, 1874. 19 p.
6065. Zelaya, Juan Antonio. Estado de la Provincia de Guayaquil, agosto 17, 1765, Revista
del Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 3:6 (dic. 1974), 97-106.
A new transcription by Michael T. Hamerly of an eighteenth-century relacin geogrfica,
originally published by Alfredo Flores y Caamao (see item 5966).
6066. Ziga, Neptal. Diario indito del viaje de Humboldt por la Provincia de Guayaquil.
Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1983. 213 p.
Translates into Spanish from the original German and French and publishes with explanations
and notes those portions of Humboldts diaries that have do with his observations of the coast in
the early 1800s.
6067. Zuvekas, Clarence, Jr. Agrarian Reform in Ecuadors Guayas River Basin, Land
Economics, 52:3 (Aug. 1976), 314-329.
A follow up to Blankstein and Zuvekass earlier study (item 7521). Reevaluates the Programa
para Promocin de Empresas Agrcolas.
6068. Acosta Sols, Misael. Anotaciones sobre la vegetacin del norte de Quito: desde
Cotocollao y San Antonio hasta el Ro Guayllabamba. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad, 1941.
120 p.
6069. Acosta Sols, Misael. La lucha contra la sequa y la erosin en la mitad del mundo: 20
aos de experiencias en la Quinta Equinoccial, 1950-1970. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1971. 63 p.
6070. Acosta Sols, Misael. Sinopsis de la fitogeografa y vegetacin de la Provincia de
Pichincha. Mxico, D.F.: Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1962. 135 p. (Plan
piloto del Ecuador)
6071. Aguil, Federico. Imbabura en la cultura nacional: un homenaje a Ibarra y a la
provincia. Ibarra: Municipio de Ibarra, 1979. 410 p.
6072. Aguil, Federico. Imbabura en pginas de historia y letras. Ibarra: Impr. Municipal,
1970. 310 p.
6073. Albuja Galindo, Alfredo. Estudio monogrfico del Cantn Cotacachi. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Minerva, 1962. 328 p.
Includes a chapter on the history of Cotacachi and its district through 1868.
6074. Almeida Reyes, Eduardo. Apuntes etnohistricos del valle de Pomasqui, 1 ed. Quito:
Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 129 p.
6075. Andino Rubio, Mauro Patricio. Tungurahua, colmena del saber y del trabajo. Quito:
Cientfica Latina Editores, 1983. 198 p. (Enciclopedia de las provincias del Ecuador; no. 2)
6076. Andrade Marn, Luciano. Una monografa de la Provincia de Pichincha. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Nacionales, 1946. 56 p.
6077. Antonini, Gustavo A. Chambo: evolucin del paisaje y su relacin con el potencial
productivo agrcola, Revista geogrfica (Mxico, D.F.), 96 (jul./dic. 1982), 5-24.
Chambo is a rural parish in the Canton of Riobamba.
6078. Armendaris, Luis A.; and Daro C. Guevara. Monografa del Cantn Rumiahui.
Quito: Impr. Ecuador, 1943. 304 p.
6079. Archetti, Eduardo P.; and Kristi Anne Stlen. Burguesa rural y campesinado en la
sierra ecuatoriana, Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brsilien (Caravelle), 34 (1980) 57-82.
A study of social conditions and class structure in the Canton of Meja in the Province of
Pichincha as of the 1970s.
6080. Arcos, Carlos G.; and Carlos Marchn Romero. Guaytacama y Cusubamba: dos
modalidades de desarrollo de la agricultura serrana, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 2:5
(1978), 13-51.
A study of agricultural development in two rural parishes of the Province of Cotopaxi, the
first of which is in the Canton of Latacunga, and the second in the Canton of Salcedo.
6081. Bez Dvila, Gonzalo. Comercio y contrabando en la Provincia del Carchi,
Planificacin (Quito), 1:2 (mayo 1963), 55-78.
6082. Barrigada Lpez, Franklin. Monografa de la Provincia de Cotopaxi. Ambato: Edit.
Primicias, 1974. 10 v.
6083. Basile, David G. Tillers of the Andes: Farmers and Farming in the Quito Basin.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Dept. of Geography, 1974. 174 p.
A revision of the authors doctoral dissertation: The Quito Basin: a Case Study Illustrating
Rural Land Use in the Ecuadorian Highlands. 1964. xvii, 479 leaves. Columbia University.
Although Basile conducted some additional field research in 1965 and 1972, this study is largely
based on fieldwork undertaken between 1941 and 1948, and the population and agricultural
censuses of 1950 and 1954, respectively.
6084. Bazante, Rafael J. El Corregimiento de Chimbo. Guaranda: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Bolvar, 1979. 79 p.
A study of what is now the Province of Bolvar during the colonial period.
6085. Black Maldonado, Juan. Conservacin de los recursos altoandinos: Antisana, un caso
de estudio, Cultura, 8:24a (ene./abr. 1986), 421-430.
6086. Black Maldonado, Juan. Los pramos del Antisana, Revista geogrfica (Quito), 17
(1983), 25-52.
6087. Blomberg, Rolf. Imbabura, bergsindianernas Land. Stockhold: Seelin, 1967. 102 p.
6088. Bolvar: diagnstico socioeconmico para la integracin del medio rural de la
Provincia de Bolvar; Elementos de diagnstico socioeconmico del medio rural de las
Provincias de Chimborazo y Bolvar. Quito: Secretara General de Planeacin Econmica, 1969.
36 p.
6089. Bonifaz, Emilio. Origen y evolucin de una hacienda histrica: Guachala, Boletn
de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 53:115 (ene./jun. 1970), 115-122; 53:116 (jul./dic. 1970),
338-350.
A history of a hacienda in the Cayambe Valley. Apparently the estate in question was formed
in the 1640s although it is sometimes claimed that it dates from as early as the 1580s.
6090. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. Composiciones de tierras en la Audiencia de Quito:
el valle de Tumbaco a finales del siglo XVII, Jahrbuch fr Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und
Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas, 17 (1980), 121-155.
Items 6090, 6091, 6093-6095 are a series of detailed, well researched, scholarly sound studies
on the emergence of large estates in the northern and central highlands in the 1600s.
Exceptionally important contributions to the economic history of the first half of the colonial
period. For a digest of Borcharts findings see item 1357.
6091. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. Composiciones de tierras en el Valle de los Chillos a
finales del siglo XVII: una contribucin a la historia agraria de la Audiencia de Quito, Cultura,
2:5 (sept./dic. 1979), 139-178.
6092. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. La crisis del obraje de San Idelfonso a finales del
siglo XVIII, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 655-671.
Destroyed during the earthquake of 1797, San Ildefonso and its corresponding haciendas in
the Corregimientos of Ambato and Chimbo were acquired in 1800 by the Valdivieso y Carrera
brothers (Agustn, Mariano Guillermo, and Sebastin). San Ildefonso, near Pelileo, had been one
of the largest and most productive of the Jesuit textile mills. Includes an analysis of the account
books for 1777-1795, during which years the obraje and its haciendas were administered by the
Junta de Temporalidades.
6093. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. Landbesitz im Machachi-Tal am Ende des 17
Jahrhunderts, Ibero-Amerikanisches Archiv, n.f., 5:3 (1979), 243-266.
Also published in Spanish as: La tenencia de la tierra en el valle de Machachi a finales del
siglo XVII, Antropologa ecuatoriana, 2/3 (1983-1984), 143-167. Based on a 1692 visita de
tierras.
6094. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. Las tierras de comunidad de Licto, Punn y Macaxi:
factores para su disminucin e intentos de restauracin, Revista andina, 6:12 (dic. 1988), 503524.
6095. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. La transferencia de la propiedad agraria indgena en
el Corregimiento de Quito hasta finales del siglo XVII, Cahiers du monde hispanique et lusobrsilien (Caravelle), 34 (1980), 5-19.
6096. Brandbyge, J.; and Lauritz Holm-Nielsen. Investigacin sobre el consumo de energa
rural en Pilahuin, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 6:6 (1986), 71-83.
By rural energy is meant firewood in this case. Pilahuin is in the Province of Tungurahua.
6097. Bustamante Yepez, Marco A.; and Vctor Manuel Madrid A. Monografa de la
Provincia de Pichincha. Quito: Tall. Grf. del Servicio de Suministros del Ecuador, 1952. 237
p.
6098. Bustos, Guillermo. Notas sobre economa y sociedad en Quito y la sierra centro norte
durante las primeras dcadas del siglo XX, Quitumbe, 7 (1990), 101-117.
A working paper on the demography, economy, and society of the northern and central
highlands during the first third of the twentieth century. The background chapter to authors
original masters thesis: Gremios, sindicatos y poltica (1931-1936): transformaciones
ideolgicas y redefinicin social de artesanos y obreros fabriles en Quito.
6099. Cacicazgo de los indios Llangarimas: ao de 1640 a 1830, Boletn del Archivo
Nacional de Historia, 10:16 (jun. 1966), 32-67.
Publishes several sources for the reconstruction of the ethnic history of the parcialidades of
Niti and Cabucau, reduced in the pueblo of Calpi (Corregimiento of Riobamba/Province of
Chimborazo).
6100. Caillavet, Chantel. La artesana textil en la poca colonial: el rol de la produccin
domstica en el norte de la Audiencia de Quito, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 521-530.
A brief but well documented and insightful essay on the forced production of woolen goods
(in sweatshop) vis--vis the voluntary production of cotton cloth (at home) during the colonial
period. Also published in French as: Lartisant textile lpoque colonial: le rle de la
production domestique dans le Nord de lAudience de Quito, Equateur 1986 (Paris: Editions de
lORSTOM, 1989), vol. 1, p. 241-250.
6101. Caillavet, Chantel. Caciques de Otavalo en el siglo XVI: don Alonso de Maldonado y
su esposa, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 2:2 (1982), 38-55.
Publishes and analyzes the last will and testament (1609) of a gobernador general of the
Repartimiento of Otavalo, the nominal indigenous equivalent of the corregidor of the
Corregimiento of Otavalo.
6102. Caillavet, Chantel. La estructura bsica de las sociedades autctonas de la sierra norte
del Ecuador en el siglo XVI: (las parcialidades indgenas, unidades tnicas mnimas),
Reproduccin y transformacin de las sociedades andinas, siglos XVI-XX: simposio auspiciado
por el Social Science Research Council, SSRC, Segundo Moreno Y., Frank Salomon,
compiladores, 1 ed. (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala: MLAL, Movimiento Laicos para Amrica
Latina, 1991), t. 1, p. 173-195.
Reexamines sixteenth-century sources on Otavaleos in order to establish and delineate what
Caillavet considers to have been the basic unit of indigenous society, the parcialidad, following
the post-conquest reorganization of ethnic groups.
6103. Caillavet, Chantel. Ethno-histoire quatorienne: un testament indien indit du XVIe
sicle, Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brsilien, 41 (1983), 5-23.
Publishes and analyzes last will and testament of Diego Colln, native lord of Panzaleo in
what is now the Province of Cotopaxi. Executed 21 Dec. 1598. An important ethnohistorical
source.
6104. Caillavet, Chantel. Produccin textil indgena y la integracin en el mercado colonial:
la etnia Otavalo--Ecuador--en el siglo XVI, Etnohistoria e historia de las Amricas (Bogot:
Ediciones Uniandes, 1988), p. 213-218.
6105. Caillavet, Chantel. Una relacin geogrfica indita de 1582 sobre Ecuador:
Oyunbicho y Amaguaa del valle de los Chillos, Revista andina, 6:12 (dic. 1988), 525-536.
6106. Caillavet, Chantel. Le sal dOtavalo, Equateur: continuits indignes et ruptures
coloniales, Mlanges de la Casa de Velazquez (Paris), 15 (1979), 329-363.
Also published in Spanish as: La sal de Otavalo, Ecuador: continuidades indgenas y rupturas
coloniales, Sarance, 9 (dic. 1981), 47-81.
6107. Caillavet, Chantel. Tribut textile et caciques dans le Nord de lAudiencia de Quito,
Mlanges de la Casa de Velzquez (Paris), 16 (1980), 179-201.
6108. Campesinos del Mira y del Chanchan, Jaime Espn [et al.]. Quito: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1992. 3 v.
6109. Carrera Coln, Juan. Apuntes para una investigacin etnohistrica de los cacicazgos
del Corregimiento de Latacunga: ss. XVI y XVII, Cultura, 4:11 (sept./dic. 1981), 129-179.
6110. Castillo Jcome, Julio. Album del centenario de la Provincia de Tungurahua 1.8601.960. Ambato: Edit. Tungurahua, [1960]. 162 p.
6111. Castillo Jcome, Julio. Historia de la Provincia de Tungurahua. Ambato: Illingworth
Editores, 1990-<1994>. <8> v.
An exceptionally detailed work. Somewhat disjointed and rambling, however. The individual
volumes are neither thematically nor chronologically specific. The individual volumes have not
been appearing in numerical order either. Apparently only vols. 1-4, 6, and 8-10 have so far
appeared. The author is an amateur and a native son.
6112. Castillo Jcome, Julio. La Provincia del Chimborazo en 1942. Riobamba: Edit.
Progreso, 1942. 474 p.
Includes an overview of the history of the province.
6113. Ceinos Manzano, Mara Jess. La expansin de las haciendas jesuitas en Pimampiro
(Reino de Quito), Estudios de historia social y econmica de Amrica, 11 (1994), 271-276.
Adds little to Villalbas more detailed and better documented study (item 6300).
6114. Coba Robalino, Jos Mara. Monografa del Cantn de Pllaro. Quito: Tip. de la
Prensa Catlica, 1929. 486 p.
A history of Pllaro and its district from pre-Hispanic times through the early-twentieth
century.
6115. Colmenares, German. La hacienda en la sierra norte del Ecuador: fundamentos
econmicos y sociales de una diferenciacin nacional (1800-1870), Procesos: revista
ecuatoriana de historia, 2 (I sem. 1992), 3-50.
An economic and social analysis of haciendas in the northern and central highlands during the
first two thirds of the nineteenth century. Especially concerned with differences between the
agrarian regimes of Ecuador and neighboring Colombia during the neocolonial period, and the
impact of sluggish and in some districts of negative population growth on labor arrangements. A
pioneering study based on a substantial quantitative matrix compiled from notarial records.
6116. Contreras C., Carlos. La crisis de la sierra central y norte del Ecuador en la segunda
mitad del siglo XVIII, Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 1:1 (primer semestre 1987),
17-40.
A revisionist review of the causes and consequences of the economic crisis of the late colonial
period in the northern and central highlands. Arges that economic stagnation prevailed from the
mid-eighteenth century through the 1870s, and that the crisis was initiated by the disruption of
trade with southern Peru, attempts at import substitution, and the fiscal reforms of the Bourbons
during the late 1700s and early 1800s.
6117. Coronel Feijo, Rosario. Riego colonial: de la coca a la caa en el valle del Chota,
Ecuador debate, 14 (1987), 47-68.
6118. Coronel Feijo, Rosario. El valle sangriento: de los indgenas de la coca y el algodn
a la hacienda caera jesuta, 1580-1700. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales;
Abya-Yala, 1991. 172 p.
An original masters thesis on Spanish penetration and Jesuit takeover of the Chota and Mira
Valley and the concomitant replacement of Indian operated cocales by black slave worked sugar
plantations. See also items 6176 and 6177.
6119. Costales Cevallos, Alfredo. La actual Provincia del Chimborazo: sus errores
histricos, Revista, Casa de la Cultura, Ncleo de Chimborazo, 8:7 (ago. 1960), 63-70.
6120. Costales Cevallos, Alfredo. Bases histricas, Revista, Casa de la Cultura, Ncleo de
Chimborazo, 4:4 (sept. 1956), 27-30.
Lists the corregidores of Riobamba for the years 1568-1809.
6121. Cotopaxi, monografa, Centro de Estudios de la Actualidad Ecuatoriana. Quito:
Ediciones Quinoccio, 1982. 101 p.
6122. Crowder, L. van. Extension for Profit: Agents and Sharecropping in the Highlands of
Ecuador, Human Organization, 50:1 (Spring 1991), 39-42.
A study of sharecropping in the Province of Imbabura.
6123. Cuadernos monogrficos de Chimbo. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1963.
190 p.
6124. Dvila Lpez, Jos E. Contexto espacial del Cantn Pedro Moncayo, Quitumbe, 6
(1987), 81-90.
A detailed analysis of the geography of the Canton of Pedro Moncayo in the Province of
Pichincha.
6125. De la Torre Araz, Patricia. Patrones y conciertos: una hacienda serrana, 1905-1929.
Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1989. 165 p. (Biblioteca de
ciencias sociales; 25)
A study of El Den Hacienda (Cantn Quito) in the early-twentieth century. A wholly original
and for Ecuador, a pioneering work. Largely based on the account books of the estate.
6126. Daz Lpez, Zamira. Oro, sociedad y economa: el sistema colonial en la Gobernacin
de Popayn: 1533-1733. Santaf de Bogot: Banco de la Repblica, Departamento Editorial,
1994. 318 p.
6138. Flor M., Flix. Pginas de historia contempornea: la rectificacin de la lnea frrea
de Riobamba. Riobamba: Impr. y Librera Nacional, 1924. 148 p.
6139. Foster, Nancy R. Minifundistas in Tungurahua, Ecuador: Survival on the Agricultural
Ladder, Searching for Agrarian Reform in Latin America, edited by William C. Thiesenhusen
(Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989), p. 92-126.
Examines the community of Santa Luca Arriba in the Province of Tungurahua over the
course of two generations to determine the impact of population pressure and commercialization
on landholding.
6140. Foster, Nancy R. When the State Sidesteps Land Reform: Alternative Peasant
Strategies in Tungurahua, Ecuador. Madison: Land Tenure Center, University of WisconsinMadison, 1989. iii, 28 p. (LTC Paper; 133)
6141. Freire Heredia, Carlos. Chimborazo, provincia de contrastes, textos, Carlos Freire
Heredia; fotografas, Jos Cruz [et al.]. Riobamba: Edit. Pedaggica Freire, 1988. 226 p.
6142. Frontera y poblamiento: estudios de historia y antropologa de Colombia y Ecuador,
Chantal Caillavet y Ximena Pachn, compiladoras. Bogot: Instituto Francs de Estudios
Andinos: Instituto de Investigaciones Amaznicas: Departamento de Antropologa, Universidad
de los Andes, 1966. 314 p.
A set of original essays on various aspects of the ethnography, ethnohistory, and history of the
peoples of southern Colombia and northern Ecuador. Several of the authors are comparative as
well as multidisciplinarian in approach.
Partial contents: Jean-Paul Deler, Tiempos y espacios de una horognesis: los territorios
fronterizos entre Colombia y Ecuador (p. 23-40); Felipe Crdenas-Arroyo, Frontera
arqueolgica vs. frontera etnohistrica: Pastos y Quillacingas en la arqueologa del sur de
Colombia (p. 41-56); Chantal Caillavet, Antropofagia y frontera: el caso de los Andes
septentrionales (p. 57-109); Chantal Caillavet, Territorio y ecologa del grupo prehispnico
Otavalo, (p. 137-156); Martin Minchom, Las rebeliones del Quito colonial: fronteras
simblicas y geografa urbana, (p. 203-236).
6143. Gaibor del Pozo, Lenidas. Monografa del Cantn San Miguel de Bolvar.
Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1977. 140 p.
6144. Garca S., Fernando. Cambios en la economa campesina a partir de la reforma
agraria: el caso de 3 comunidades campesinas en la Provincia de Chimborazo. Quito:
Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Departamento de
Antropologa, 1977. 126 p.
6145. Gonzlez, Ernel M. Intervencin estatal y cambios en la racionalidad de las
economas campesinas: el caso de las comunidades de San Vicente y Tumbatu en el Valle del
Chota, 1 ed. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Quito, 1984. iii, 216
p. (Coleccin Tesis; no. 2)
6146. Gonzlez G., Jos H. Aspectos econmicos de la Provincia de Bolvar. Guaranda:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Bolvar, 1983. 64 p.
Surveys coeval changes in the agrarian structure of the Province of Chimborazo. Also
published in Spanish as: La transicin agraria en la sierra del Ecuador: del semifeudalismo al
capitalismo en Chimborazo, Ecuador debate, 20 (1990), 147-182.
6158. Haney, Emil B.; and Wava G. Haney. Transformation of the Agrarian Structure in
Ecuador with Specific Reference to the Province of Chimborazo. Madison: Land Tenure Center,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987. 130 p. (LTC Research Paper; 86)
6159. Haro Alvear, Silvio Luis. La Carretera Ibarra-San Lorenzo: notas histricas, Revista
del Ncleo de Imbabura de la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 12:25:24 (jul. 1979), 104-114.
6160. Hartmann, Roswith. Cochasqu, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 2:2 (1982),
24-30.
Examines living and working conditions on a highland estate partially divided in 1963 in
anticipation of the Ley de Reforma Agraria of the following year. Based on field work in 1964
and 1965.
6161. Hearn, Lea T. A Geographic Study of the Village of Cotocollao, Ecuador, Journal of
Geography, 49:5 (Sept. 1950), 225-231.
Useful as a depiction of the township of Cotocollao as of the mid- twentieth century, but of
dubious ethnographic or sociological value. A skewed portrait. Hearn refers to the Indians and
mestizos of Cotocollao as little more than sleepy beasts of burden, whose existence, though
happy and carefree, is based on a struggle for lifes fundamental necessities, food, clothing, and
shelter.
6162. Hess, Carmen G. La racionalidad de una economa agropecuaria: una contribucin
hacia el desarrollo en los pramos ecuatorianos. Quito: Proyecto de Fomento Ganadero: MAG:
GTZ, 1992. xxiv, 178 p.
6163. Hierro, Ricardo del. Un viaje a Maldonado: noticias de la parroquia, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia, 7:20 (nov./dic. 1923), 399-405.
The Maldonado of Carchi, not the Maldonado of Esmeraldas or the Maldonado of
Chimborazo.
6164. Ibarra, Hernn. El conflicto hacienda-comunidad en la sierra central ecuatoriana
durante el siglo XIX, Estudios rurales latinoamericano, 15:1 (ene./abr. 1992), 75-121.
6165. Ibarra, Hernn. Indios y cholos. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1992. 53 p.
A study of the labor market in Ambato and Riobamba in the early 1900s.
6166. Indicadores bsicos, sierra central: Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, Bolvar, Chimborazo,
Pastaza. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1979. 316 p.
6167. Irigoyen, Galo. El problema de lmites entre Quito y Esmeraldas. Quito: Impr.
Municipal, 1954. 165 p.
6168. Iturralde G., Diego A. Guamote: campesinos y comunas. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo
de Antropologa, 1980. 221 p. (Coleccin Pendoleros; 28)
6177. Landzuri N., Cristbal. Las sociedades indgenas de las cuencas de los Ros Mira y
Chanchan, siglos XVI y XVII: estudios de casos, Revista de historia de Amrica, 106 (jul./dic.
1988), 49-106.
A pioneering ethnohistorical study of the various ethnic groups (polities and enclaves) found
in the Coangue, Salinas/Urcuqui, and Chanchn/ Alaus Valleys prior to the Inca conquest and
what happened to them during the first half of the colonial period, following the Spanish
conquest. Based primarily on research in the Archivo Histrico del Banco Central del Ecuador in
Ibarra and the Notarial Archives of Alaus.
6178. Landzuri N., Cristbal. Territorios y pueblos: la sociedad pasto en los siglos XVI y
XVII, Memoria, MARKA, ao 1, no. 1 (nov. 1990), 57-108.
An outstanding ethnohistorical study of the Pastos, preceding and following the Inca and
Spanish conquests, in what is now northern Ecuador. Includes findings on the seventeenth as
well as the sixteenth century. Based on original research in Spain as well as in Ecuador. See
also item 987.
6179. Lehmann, David. Sharecropping and the Capitalist Transition in Agriculture: Some
Evidence from the Highlands of Ecuador. Cambridge: Centre of Latin American Studies,
University of Cambridge, 1985. 40 p. (Working Paper; no. 40)
A study of farm tenancy and sharecropping in the Province of Carchi in the late twentieth
century.
6180. Lehmann, David. Two Paths of Agrarian Capitalism, or a Critique of Chayanovian
Marxism, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 28:4 (Oct. 1986), 601-627.
Argues that the small peasant producers of Carchi are capitalists, at least as of the mid
1980s.
6181. Lentz, Carola. De regidores y alcaldes a cabildos: cambios en la estructura sociopoltica de una comunidad indgena de Cajabamba, Chimborazo, Ecuador debate, 12 (1986),
189-212.
See also her Why the Most Incompetent Are on the Village Council: Development Projects
in an Indian Village in Ecuador, Sociologia Ruralis (Assen, Netherlands), 28:2/3 (1988), 199215.
6182. Lewis, G. Edward. El Sangay: Fire-Breathing Giant of the Andes, National
Geographic Magazine, 97:1 (Jan. 1950), 117-138.
On Lewiss 1946 excursion from Riobamba to Sangay. Illustrated with photographs taken by
the author.
6183. Lpez, Modesto. Los Andes quitensis. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1890. 32 p.
Not a new edition of the following item (6184), but a continuation of what was supposed to
have been a multi-part set on the economic geography of the highlands.
6184. Lpez, Modesto. Los Andes quitensis: sistema del Chimborazo o sea consideraciones
econmicas sobre ese territorio. Quito: Impr. del Clero, 1888. 28 p.
6208. Monografa del Cantn de Otavalo. Quito: Tip. y Encuadernacin Salesiana, 1909.
265 p.
6209. Montalvo, Juan Francisco. La Provincia de Tungurahua en 1928. Ambato: Edit.
Raza Latina, 1928. 365 p.
Includes a prcis of the history of Tungurahua and biographical sketches of notable ambateos
of the colonial, independence, and early national periods.
6210. Morales, Juan de Dios. El terremoto de 1797: informe de Juan de Dios Morales,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 45:102 (jul./dic. 1963), 255-258.
A coeval report.
6211. Moreno, Segundo Luis. Cotacachi y su comarca. Quito: Edit. Don Bosco, 1966. 174
p.
6212. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E. Las composiciones de tierras y el despojo de la
propiedad indgena en la regin Latacunga-Ambato, siglo XVII, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986),
627-638.
Regarding the visita, venta y composicin de tierras entrusted to Antonio de Melgar in
1645, following the death of the nineteenth president of the Audiencia, Juan de Lizarazu.
6213. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E. Constitutivos tnicos comunales en la movilizacin
subversiva: las rebeliones indgenas en la comarca de Alaus en el siglo XVIII, Antropologa
ecuatoriana, 2/3 (1983-1984), 105-124.
6214. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E. Una rebelin indgena anticolonial: Chambo, 1797,
Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brsilien (Caravelle), 34 (1980), 21-32.
Demonstrates that the Chambo uprising of 1797 was anticolonial inasmuch as the indigenes
involved sought to liberate themselves from the yoke of their white and mestizo exploiters.
They do not appear to have been any too happy with their cacique principal y gobernador de los
indios either. Based almost entirely on archival materials. Reprinted in item 607.
6215. Moreno Ynez, Segundo E. Traspaso de la propiedad agrcola indgena a la hacienda
colonial: el caso de Saquisil, Cultura, 4:10 (mayo/ago. 1981), 117-139.
A detailed study of the formation of the Jesuit estate of Saquisil, one of the lesser properties
of the Company, specifically of the Noviciate House of Latacunga. Originally published in:
Jahrbuch fr Geschichte von Staat, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft Lateinamerikas, 17 (1980), 97119;and reprinted in item 607.
6216. Moya, Ruth. Los tejidos del norte andino: smbolos y funciones, Cultura, 8:24b
(ene./abr. 1986), 545-563.
6217. Moya Torres, Luz del Alba. Alimentos y mercados: el papel de Tungurahua. Quito:
CEDIME, 1988. 74 p.
6218. Muratorio, Ricardo. La transicin del obraje a la industria y el papel de la produccin
textil en la economa de la sierra en el siglo XIX, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 531-543.
6219. Navas, Juan de Dios. Ibarra y sus provincias de 1534 a 1932. Quito: Impr. del Clero,
1934-1935. 2 v.
A classic albeit traditional history of San Miguel de Ibarra and the northern provinces of
Imbabura and Carchi.
6220. Navas de Pozo, Yolanda. Angamarca en el siglo XVI, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1990. 143 p.
An ethnohistorical study of Angamarca in the Corregimiento of Tacunga, apparently an
enclave of Colorados.
6221. Nicol Lpez, Gerardo. La Provincia de Tungurahua. Ambato: Municipio de
Ambato, 1987. 293 p.
6222. Nicol Lpez, Gerardo. Tierra de Tungurahua. Ambato: Edit. Atenas, 1960. 152 p.
6223. Obando A., Segundo. Tradiciones de Cotacahi. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1985.
49 p.
6224. Obando A., Segundo. Tradiciones de Imbabura, 2 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1986. 311 p.
6225. Obando A., Segundo. Tradiciones de La Esperanza. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1985. 50 p.
6226. Obando A., Segundo. Tradiciones de Otavalo, Imbabura. Quito: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1985. 50 p.
6227. Obando A., Segundo. Tradiciones de Pesillo. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1985. 52
p.
6228. Obando A., Segundo. Tradiciones del Chota. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1985. 44 p.
Items 6223-6224 are a series of brief, profusely illustrated, popular histories of indigenous
pueblos in the northern highlands. Obando, a priest, is more or less ethnohistorical in his
approach.
6229. Olano, Antonio. De Popayn a Quito: impresiones de viaje. Quito: Tip. y
Encuadernacin Salesianas, 1929-1930. 2 v.
6230. Oa Villarreal, Humberto; and Ketty Ruales de Oa. Historia y geografa de la
Provincia de Imbabura, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Edit. del Pacfico, 1988. 138 p.
6231. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Panorama econmico y social del Corregimiento de
Quito, 1768-1775, Revista de Indias, 36:145/146 (jul./dic. 1976), 83-98.
A quantitative study of the rural economy of the Corregimiento of Quito (more or less
equivalent to the modern Province of Pichincha) circa 1770. Based on a detailed encabezamiento
de alcabalas in the Archivo General de Indias.
6232. Paisaje y alma de Otavalo: antologa, [recopilada por] Virgilio A. Chaves
Valdospinos. Otavalo: Edit. Gallocapitn , 1978. 225 p.
6233. Paz y Mio, Luis T. Monografa de la Provincia de Pichincha. Quito: Tip. y Encuad.
Salesianas, 1922. 20 p.
6234. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Coague, o,
Historia cultural y social de los negros del Chota y Salinas. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Antropologa y Geografa, 1959. 307 p. (Llacta; ao 4, vol. 7)
About one third of this work is actually given over to the history of blacks in the Province of
Imbabura, especially to that of slaves on the former Jesuit estates and of their manumission
during the independence and early national periods. This and items 6235, 6236, and 6238 are
data rich, but, unfortunately, poorly articulated. They also lack indexes.
6235. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Katekil, o, Historia
cultural del campesinado de Chimborazo. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y
Geografa, 1957. 322 p. (Llacta; ao 2, vol. 4)
Not withstanding its alternative title, this is not a history but a study of demographic,
economic, and social conditions among the rural inhabitants of the Province of Chimborazo as of
the early and mid 1950s.
6236. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Yunga n, o,
Historia cultural y social del campesinado de la Provincia de Bolvar. Quito: Instituto
Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y Geografa, 1958. p. 1-241. (Llacta; ao 3, vol. 5-6)
Although this monograph contains a brief chapter on the prehispanic period, by and large it is
a study of the rural population of Bolvar as it was during the first half of the 1950s. Published
together with Aquiles R. Prez T., Contribucin al conocimiento de la prehistoria de los pueblos
del norte del territorio de la Repblica del Ecuador (item 1120).
6237. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Los seores del
norte andino del Reyno de Quito: los Puentos, Angos, Tulcanaza, Tagues, Paspuel, Tusa y
Guachagmira. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala: Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga, 1993. 199 p.
6238. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; Alfredo Costales Samaniego; and Fausto Jordn
Bucheli. Tungurahua: estudio socio-econmico de la Provincia de Tungurahua. Quito: Instituto
Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y Geografa, 1961. 441 p. (Llacta; no. 13)
Includes three background chapters on the Indians of the province during the colonial
period, especially on conditions in 1600s, and on the historical demography of the province.
Most of the data in this work, however, appear to date from field work undertaken and statistics
compiled during the second half of the 1950s.
6239. Pesillo: documentos para su historia, [compilacin y edicin de] Piedad y Alfredo
Costales S. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1987. 174 p.
An anthology of sources relating to a major hacienda near Quito. Consists mostly of visita
and census materials from the colonial and national periods. See also items 6299 and 8024.
6240. Pichincha, monografa histrica de la regin nuclear ecuatoriana, compilador,
Segundo E. Moreno Ynez. Quito: Consejo Provincial de Pichincha, 1981. 565 p.
6250. Puga Arroyo, Miguel. Los Puentos en Cayambe y Tabacundo: siglos XVI al XVIII.
Quito: Offsett Impresores, 1992. 237 p. (Coleccin Medio milenio; vol. 3)
An ethnohistorical study of caciques of Cayambe and Tabacundo. Published together with
Fernando Jurado Noboa, El proceso de blanqueamiento en el Ecuador: de los Puento a los Egas
(item 3328).
6251. Pusir: una comunidad de cultura negra en el can de El Chota, [Alfredo Costales
Samaniego et al.]. Quito: Instituto Nacional de Previsin, Departamento de Informacin,
Reclamaciones e Investigacin Social, 1953. 101 p. (Informe, Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Antropologa y Geografa; no. 2)
Pusir is a hamlet in the Parish of Los Andes in the Canton of Montfar, Province of Carchi.
6252. Ramn Valarezo, Galo. Del cacicazgo andino a la hacienda: la transformacin del
espacio productivo en Cayambe, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 639-654.
6253. Ramn Valarezo, Galo. La cara oculta de la hacienda colonial: la visin andina en
Cayambe, siglo XVII, Reproduccin y transformacin de las sociedades andinas, siglos XVIXX: simposio auspiciado por el Social Science Research Council, SSRC, Segundo Moreno Y.,
Frank Salomon, compiladores, 1 ed. (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala: MLAL, Movimiento Laicos
para Amrica Latina, 1991), t. 2, p. 415-440.
Argues that to some extent indigenes attempted to manipulate haciendas to their own
advantage, at least during the initial process of formation of haciendas in the 1600s, in order to
maintain or recreate pre-conquest agencies of identity, internal solidarity, and territoriality. Also
examines extent to which hacendados assumed the role of caciques and ayllus.
6254. Ramn Valarezo, Galo. El poder y los norandinos: la historia en las sociedades
norandinas del siglo XVI. Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1990. 256 p.
A well researched study of the incorporation of the Pastos and the Litas into the
Tahuantinsuyu and subsequently into the colonial state.
6255. Ramn Valarezo, Galo. La resistencia andina: Cayambe, 1.500-1.800. Quito: Centro
Andino de Accin Popular, 1987. 284 p.
A detailed, solidly documented ethnohistory of the Cacicazgo of Cayambe from the 1400s
through the 1700s. Focuses on indigenous resistance and survival, especially on the Hacienda of
Guachal.
6256. Ramn Valarezo, Galo. Tierras y manos indias: la recuperacin del suelo en las
comunidades andinas de Chimborazo, 1 ed. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1993. 135 p.
6257. Rebolledo G., Loreto. Comunidad y resistencia: el caso de Lumbis en la colonia.
Quito: FLACSO, Sede Ecuador: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992. 321 p.
Publishes her 1987 masters thesis: Tierras, indgenas, transformaciones: el caso de Lumbis
durante la colonia.
6258. Refining Soil Conservation Strategies in the Mountain Environment: the Climatic
Factor, an Ecuadorian Case Study, C.P. Staver [et al.], Mountain Research and Development,
11:2 (May 1991), 127-144.
6259. Respuesta andina al sismo: Cayambe 87, Eric Dudley [et al.]. Quito: Centro Andino
de Accin Popular, 1988. 191p.
6260. Riesgos naturales en Quito: lahares, aluviones y derrumbes del Pichincha y del
Cotopaxi, coordinador, Pierre Peltre. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional: Colegio de
Gegrafos del Ecuador, 1989. 90 p.
6261. Rohn, Lilo. Mujeres y resistencia acerca del papel de las mujeres en el levantamiento
de Otavalo 1777, Antropologa (Quito), 4 (1987), 91-102.
6262. Romoli, Kathleen. Las tribus de la antigua jurisdiccin de Pasto en el siglo XVI,
Revista colombiana de antropologa, 21 (1977/1978), 11-55.
6263. Saint-Geours, Yves. La sierra centro y norte (1830-1925), Historia y regin en el
Ecuador, 1830-1930 (item 6591), p. 143-188.
A superb survey of the demographic, economic, and social history of the northern and central
highlands from the separation of Ecuador from Gran Colombia through the eve of the July
Revolution. Reflects considerable original research and a solid grasp of the published literature.
6264. Saint-Geours, Yves. La sierra du Nord et du centre en Equateur, 1830-1875, Bulletin
de lInstitut franais dtudes andines, 13:1/2 (1984), 1-15.
Also published in Spanish as Economa y sociedad: la sierra centro-norte (1830-1875),
Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 7, p. 37-68. The Spanish version is the lead essay in
a triptych on the demographic, economic, and social history of the three major regions in the
1800s. See also items 6017 and 6353.
6265. Salazar, Francisco Javier. Una excursin a Baos. Quito: Impr. de Valencia, 1855. 12
p.
6266. Salomon, Frank. Don Pedro de Zmbiza, un varayuj del siglo XVI, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 25:42 (1975 [i.e., 1980]), 285-315.
An original ethnohistorical study of one of the most important ethnic lords of postconquest
Quito.
6267. Salomon, Frank. Seis comunidades indgena en las cercanas de Quito, 1559: la visita
de Gaspar de San Martn y Juan Mosquera, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia,
59:127/128 (ene./dic. 1976), 139-190.
An analysis of the visita of 1559, for the full text of which see item 5435. Salomon published
only the portion corresponding to Urin Chillo.
6268. Salomon, Frank. Weavers of Otavalo, Peoples and Cultures of Native South
America: an Anthropological Reader, 1st ed., edited with introductions by Daniel R. Cross
(Garden City: Doubleday/The Natural History Press, 1973), p. 463-492.
An ethnohistorical study of what is now the Canton of Otavalo from circa 500 A.D. through
the early 1970s. Apparently the Otavaleos were Caras (also known as Caranquis) in origin.
Also published in a slightly revised version under the same title in: Cultural Transformations
and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 420-449.
6269. Salomon, Frank. Yumbo an: la vialidad indgena en el noroccidente de Pichincha y
el trasfondo aborigen del camino de Pedro Vicente Maldonado, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986),
611-626.
6270. Saltos, Augusto Csar. En tierras de Bolvar: tradiciones, estampas y leyendas.
Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1969. 372 p.
6271. San Flix, Alvaro. En lo alto grande laguna. Quito: Edit. Voluntad, 1974. 351 p.
6272. San Flix, Alvaro. Monografa de Otavalo. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de
Antropologa, 1988. 2 v.
A detailed, well documented history of the community and the canton of Otavalo from
paleolithic times through the present.
6273. Sandoval, Alejandro Emilio. Monografa de la Provincia de Len. Quito: Impr. y
Encuad. Nacionales, 1921. vi, 163 p.
6274. Simitug y Salinas: dos experiencias campesinas. [Guaranda?]: Runacunapac Yachana
Huasi, 1985. 35 p.
6275. Sntesis monogrfica de la Parroquia San Lorenzo, Tirso Monar Benavides [et al.].
Guaranda: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Bolvar, 1984. 136 p.
6276. Smith, Vernon. Marketing Agricultural Commodities in Pichincha Province,
Geographical Review, 65:3 (July 1975), 353-363.
6277. Snailham, Richard. Sangay Tragedy, Geographical Magazine, 50:2 (Nov. 1977),
129-134.
Regarding a frustrated attempt by the author and others to scale Sangay in 1976. See also the
exchange between Snailham and Minard L. Hall in ibid., 50:4 (Jan. 1978), 286.
6278. Soasti, Guadalupe. Obraje colonial y mita obrajera, Quitumbe, 8 (jun. 1994), 71-85.
Delineates the assignation of Indian labor to the obrajes of Chambo and Licto during the first
half of the colonial period.
6279. Soasti, Guadalupe. Obrajeros y comerciantes en Riobamba (s. XVII), Procesos:
revista ecuatoriana de historia, 1 (II sem. 1994), 5-22.
An almost wholly original, data rich study of the production of textiles in the Corregimiento
of Riobamba in seventeenth century and of the traffic in textiles with Lima. Delineates the role
of key families such as the Cepeda and of their obrajes (in this case, Chambo).
6280. Stacey de Valdivieso, Marca. Chaupicruz-Osorio: una hacienda mestiza, 1 ed.
Quito: Edit. Delta, 1995. 369 p.
6281. Stbel, Alphons. Carta del Dr. A.S. a S.E. el Presidente de la Repblica sobre sus
viajes a las montaas Chimborazo, Altar, etc., y en especial sobre sus ascensiones al
Tungurahua y Cotopaxi. Quito, 1873. 30 p.
6282. Stutzman, Ronald L. Black Highlanders: Racism and Ethnic Stratification in the
Ecuadorian Sierra. 1974. xi, 246 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University.
6283. Stutzman, Ronald L. La gente morena de Ibarra y la sierra septentrional, Sarance, 7
(oct. 1979), 96-110.
6284. Sylva Charvet, Paola. The Decline of the Pre-Capitalist Structure of the Hacienda and
the Emergence of Transitional Forms of Production: the Case of the Province of Chimborazo,
NS / Northsouth, 7:14 (1982), 67-90.
6285. Sylva Charvet, Paola. Gamonalismo y lucha campesina: (estudio de la sobreviviencia
y disolucin de un sector terrateniente): el caso de la Provincia de Chimborazo, 1940-1979.
Quito: Abya-Yala, 1986. 250 p.
6286. Tern, Francisco. Seccin de geografa: orografa e hidrografa de la Hoya del
Guayllabamba. Mxico, D.F.: Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1962. 26 p.
(Plan piloto del Ecuador)
6287. Tern, Francisco. Visin histrica-geogrfica de las tierras comprehendidas entre el
Nudo de Mojanda y el Ro Guayllabamba. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1982. 43 p.
6288. El Terremoto de la zona centro-nororiente del Ecuador, 5 de marzo de 1987, Cinna
Lomnitz [et al.]. Lima: Centro Regional de Sismologa para Amrica del Sur, 1987. 163 p.
6289. Thurner, Mark. Hacienda Dissolution, Peasant Struggle, and Land Market in
Ecuadors Central Highlands: (Canton Colta, Chimborazo Province). Madison: University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Land Tenure Center, 1989. v, 44 p. (Land Tenure Center Research Paper;
no. 99)
Also published in Spanish as: Disolucin de la hacienda, luchas campesinas, y mercado de
tierras en la sierra central del Ecuador, Ecuador debate, 20 (1990), 69-146.
6290. Thurner, Mark. Peasant Politics and Andean Haciendas in the Transition to
Capitalism, Latin American Research Review, 28:3 (1993), 41-82.
Examines late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century developments on two estates, Gatazo and
Culluctus, formerly owned by the Zambrano family in the Colta region of the Province of
Chimborazo.
6291. Troncoso Barba, Elas. La campaa de 1900 en Tulcn: (captulo olvidado en la
historia contempornea del Ecuador y el sur de Colombia). Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin,
1943. 79 p.
6292. Ulloa Enrquez, Francisco R.; and J. Bayardo Ulloa Enrquez. La tenencia de la tierra
en Mira, Provincia del Carchi, Memorias del V Congreso Nacional de Historia y Geografa
(item 559), p. 211-223.
SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS
In addition to the works cited below, see also: Apuntes para la historia del Caar:[memorias
de la XV Jornadas de Historia Social, 1992]. Quito: Instituto Andino de Artes Populares del
Convenio Andrs Bello, 1992. 144 p.
6311. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. Indios y negros bajo el dominio espaol en Loja, 1 ed.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1993. 311 p.
Consists of research notes and transcriptions of sources on Indians (relating especially to
caciques and communities) and black slaves in the Corregimiento of Loja. Drawn from notarial
records, the Vacas Galindo Collection, and the Archivo Nacional de Historia. Incorporates item
6313.
6312. Anda Aguirre, Alfonso. La trata de negros en Loja, Cultura, 8:22 (mayo/ago. 1985),
197-216.
Also consists of research notes on the buying and selling and manumission of slaves in the
city and Province of Loja during the colonial period. Chronologically organized. Reprinted in
item 6314.
6313. Andrade, Cecilia. Las federaciones provinciales de trabajadores del Azuay (19601980), Revista del IDIS, 21 (abr. 1989), 243-303.
6314. Azuay y Caar: desarrollo econmico, situacin agraria y forestal, Junta Nacional de
Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1956. 219 p.
A detailed report on economic conditions and prospects for development in the Provinces of
Azuay and Caar as of the early 1950s.
6315. Azuay: pensamiento y cultura = Thought and Culture. Cuenca: Romlacio Editor,
1991. 2 v. (Enciclopedia de las provincias del Ecuador = Encyclopedia of the Provinces of
Ecuador)
In Spanish and English.
6316. Baud, Michel. Campesinos indgenas contra el Estado: la huelga de los indgenas de
Azuay, 1920/21, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 4 (I sem. 1993), 41-72.
A wholly original albeit preliminary study of a virtually forgotten uprising, the Indian strike
of 1920/1921. A major contribution to the nascent social and economic history of twentieth
century Azuay.
6317. Bernand-Muoz, Carmen. El cura prroco, los indgenas y el poder local: etnohistoria
poltica del Azuay, Accin (Quito),2 poca, 10 (oct. 1987), 5-15.
6318. Bernand-Muoz, Carmen. Tradition orale, histoire populaire et indianit dans une
socit paysanne de la Sierra mridionale, Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-bresilien
(Caravelle), 34 (1980), 83-98.
6319. Borrero Crespo, Maximiliano. Corregidores y gobernadores de Cuenca, 1557-1822,
Revista del Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Genealgicas y Antropolgicas, 4/5:6 (dic.
1985), 13-58.
A useful list in chronological order, replete with biographical details, of corregidores and
governors of the Corregimiento/Gobierno Poltico y Militar de Cuenca. Based on extensive
archival research.
6320. Borrero Vega, Ana Luz. El paisaje rural en el Azuay. Cuenca: Banco Central del
Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1989. 270 p.
6321. Bravo Guerreira, Mara Concepcin. Un proceso de regionalizacin precoz en el
Virreinato del Per: el caso de Loja, siglos XVI-XIX, Revista de Indias, 48:182/183 (ene./ago.
1988), 23-58.
Two essays in one. The first delineates the ethnohistory of the Pacamoros, Paltas, and
Malacatos prior to and after their subjugation by the Incas. The second examines demographic,
economic, and social developments in the Province of Loja during the colonial period.
6322. Caillavet, Chantal. Mapas coloniales de haciendas lojanas, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr.
1983), 513-531.
Reproduces and describes one seventeenth-century and eight eighteenth-century, previously
unknown, maps of rural Loja, mostly of haciendas.
6323. Caillavet, Chantal. Les rouages conomiques dune socit minire: changes et
crdit, Loja, 1550-1630, Bulletin dInstitut franais dtudes andines, 13:3/4 (1984), 31-63.
Studies the economic bonanza of the second half of the sixteenth century and the crisis of the
seventeenth century in the Province of Loja. The prosperity of the 1500s was fueled by gold
mining and the decline of the 1600s intensified by censos, previously a credit mechanism but
now a burden of debt. Also published in Spanish as: Los mecanismos econmicos de una
sociedad minera: intercambios y crdito: Loja, 1550-1630, Revista ecuatoriana de historia
econmica, 2:3 (1988), 19-62.
6324. Castillo Vivanco, Jos Bolvar; and Rafael Len Palacios. El desarrollo de la regin
sur del Ecuador. Loja: Programa Regional para el Desarrollo de la Regin Sur, 1984. 283 p.
6325. Centro de Reconversin Econmica del Azuay, Caar y Morona-Santiago.
Departamento de Planificacin Regional. Evaluacin del plan integral de desarrollo regional,
1978-1982. Cuenca: Direccin de Planificacin, Departamento de Planificacin Regional, 1984.
145 p.
See also item 6328.
6326. Cisternos Gutirrez, Daro A. El Cantn Calvas: sntesis monogrfica. Loja: Consejo
Municipal Calvas Cantn, 1953. 60 p.
Calvas is the southernmost district in the Province of Loja. Its capital is Cariamanga.
6327. Clavijo Martnez, Ezequiel. La cantonizacin de Caar en la historia. Caar:
Concejo Cantonal de Caar, 1959. 89 p.
6328. El comportamiento econmico de las Provincias de Azuay, Caar y Morona-Santiago,
1974-1980, C.R.E.A., Departamento de Planificacin Regional; Universidad de Cuenca, Instituto
de Investigaciones Sociales. Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1982. iv, 118, [117] p.
Includes a statistical appendix (not paginated).
A history of gold and silver mining in the Corregimiento / Gobierno Poltico y Militar de
Cuenca.
6339. Chacn Zhapn, Juan. Historia del Corregimiento de Cuenca, 1557-1777. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1990. 675 p. (Coleccin histrica; 19)
The authors doctoral dissertation. A detailed history of what are now the Provinces of
Azuay and Caar from the Spanish conquest through the establishment of the Gobierno Poltico
y Militar de Cuenca. Solidly documented but methodologically unsophisticated. Based almost
entirely on original research.
6340. Chacn Zhapn, Juan. La repblica de los indios en la antigua Provincia de Cuenca,
Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 3 (1981), 9-37.
A somewhat anachronistic overview of Spanish treatment of Indians in what are now the
provinces of Caar and Azuay. Redeemed by archival data on local kurakas or ethnic lords.
Also published in: Ensayos sobre historia regional (item 6347), p. 1-29.
6341. Chacn Zhapn, Juan; Pedro Soto; and Diego Mora Castro. Historia de la
Gobernacin de Cuenca (1777-1820): estudio econmico-social. Cuenca: Consejo Nacional de
Universidades y Escuelas Politcnicas (CONUEP): Universidad de Cuenca, Instituto de
Investigaciones Sociales (IDIS): I. Municipalidad de Cuenca: Direccin de Cultura: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay: Gobernacin del Azuay, 1993. 545 p.
Notwithstanding the subtitle, a comprehensive history of what are now the Provinces of
Caar and Azuay from the establishment of the Gobierno Poltico y Militar de Cuenca in 1777
through the establishment of the Provincia Libre e Independiente de Cuenca in 1820. Like the
principal authors Historia del Corregimiento de Cuenca (item 6341), based almost entirely on
original research. Includes 319 pages of time series of demographic and economic data, that,
unfortunately, are not altogether reliable inasmuch as the authorss grasp of quantitative
methodology is inadequate.
6342. Deler, Jean-Paul. Structures de lespace entre Loja et Piura: continuits, transitions et
diffrenciation transfrontalire, Bulletin dInstitut franais dtudes andines, 20:2 (1991), 279294.
6343. Eguiguren Valdivieso, Genaro. El gobierno federal de Loja: la crisis de 1858. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1992. 131 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 41)
The first detailed examination of the role played by the city and province of Loja in the civil
war of 1859-1861.
6344. Encalada Vsquez, Oswaldo. Toponimias azuayas, 1 ed. Cuenca: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1990. 526 p.
A historical linguistic study.
6345. Ensayos sobre historia regional: la regin centro sur. Cuenca: Ncleo del Azuay de
la Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1982. 309 p.
Six essays--for the specifics of which see items 6342, 6354, 6373, 6404, 6426, and 6667--all
of which reflect original research, by ten scholars affiliated with the Instituto de Investigaciones
Sociales of the Universidad de Cuenca on the economic and social history of the Provinces of
Azuay and Caar from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the twentieth century.
Originally presented at the Tercer Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y Social del
Ecuador, held at the Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales in Nov. 1980.
6346. Erazo Vallejo, Marco T. Apuntes sobre la geologa y estructura del valle de Cuenca.
Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1957. 40 p.
6347. Espinosa, Roberto. Contra calumnias, verdades. Cuenca: Tip. Progreso, 1912. 39 p.
A Declaracin sobre los hechos polticos de 1912 acaecidos en la Provincia del Caar.
6348. Espinoza, Leonardo. Poltica fiscal de la provincia de Cuenca: resea histrica
presupuestaria, 1779-1861, Segundo Encuentro de Historia y Realidad Econmica y Social del
Ecuador, (item 574), vol. 1, p. 61-125.
A quantitative study of public finance in and fiscal policy of what are now the Provinces of
Caar and Azuay during the late-colonial, independence, and early-national periods. Provides a
badly needed data base for reconstructing the economic history of Cuenca and its district. Based
on archival research, especially treasury records. Also published in: Revista del IDIS, 6 (1979),
1-76; and in: Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin del Azuay, 1 (1979), 11-67, 213246.
6349. Espinoza, Leonardo. Sntesis del proceso histrico de la Provincia del Azuay,
Revista del IDIS, 14 (jun. 1985), 11-46.
6350. Espinoza, Leonardo; and Lucas Achig S. Economa y sociedad en el siglo XIX:
sierra sur, Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 7, p. 69-101.
A knowledgeable and insightful sketch of the demographic, economic, and social history of
the Provinces of Azuay, Caar, and Loja from 1771 through 1895.
6351. Espinoza, Leonardo; and Lucas Achig S. Proceso de desarrollo de las Provincias de
Azuay, Caar y Morona Santiago: breve historia econmica y social de la regin caari.
Cuenca: Centro de Reconversin Econmica del Azuay, Caar y Morona-Santiago, 1981. 213,
[8] p.
A solid economic and social history of the Provinces of Caar and Azuay. Reflects
considerable original research.
6352. Espinoza, Leonardo; Lucas Achig S.; and Rubn Martnez. La Gobernacin colonial
de Cuenca: formacin social y produccin mercantil simple (aproximacin terico-histrica),
Ensayos sobre historia regional (item 6347), p. 81-117.
6353. Espinoza Campoverde, Julio; and German Jcome Vsquez. Estudio toponmico en el
rea del Parque Nacional del Cajas y en la Parroquia central de Girn, Provincia del Azuay.
Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Azuay, 1988. 402 p.
6354. Fauroux, Emmanuel. Cambio social y utilizacin diferencial del medio natural: el
ejemplo de Loja, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 673-689.
An excellent introduction to the rural history of the Province of Loja from the emergence of
latifundios in the early colonial period through their breakup in the 1960s and 1970s (indirectly
initiated by the Agrarian Reform of 1964 and culminating in the peasant takeovers of 1968).
Includes a section on PREDESUR (established in 1974).
6355. Fauroux, Emmanuel. Poder regional e instituciones regionales en la Provincia de
Loja desde principios del siglo XX: ejes de una investigacin, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr. 1983),
235-253.
A preliminary report on authors research on the political and social history of the Province
of Loja in the 1900s.
6356. El Ferrocarril del Sur: 1908-1933. Quito: Impr. La Industria, 1933. 70 p.
6357. El Ferrocarril del Sur y los derechos del Ecuador: artculos publicados en el ao
1907. Quito: Impr. y Encuadernacin Nacionales, 1916. 128 p.
6359. Galarza Zavala, Jaime. Los campesinos de Loja y Zamora. Quito: Universidad
Central del Ecuador, 1973. 257 p.
6360. Gallardo Moscoso, Hernn. 400 aos de cultura lojana. Loja: Edit. Universitaria,
1977. 334 p. (Fisonoma de Loja; [4])
6361. Gallardo Moscoso, Hernn. El Cantn Puyango es as. Loja: Edit. Olivia, 1957.
172 p.
6362. Gallardo Moscoso, Hernn. Estirpes derrotados: las comunidades indgenas. Loja:
Edit. Universitaria, 1974 158 p.
6363. Gallardo Moscoso, Hernn. Historia social del sur ecuatoriano. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1991. 414 p.
6364. Gallardo Moscoso, Hernn. Paltas, Incas y Viracochas: historia de los vencidos.
Loja: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Loja, 1970. 236 p. (Fisonoma de Loja; [1])
This vol. together with item 6366, Loja: su folklore (which I have not seen), and item 6361-in that order--constitute a four vol. set rich in apparently accurate data on virtually every aspect
of the history of the Province of Loja and its capital. Unfortunately, however, Gallardo Moscoso
does not know how to organize or to interpret facts and figures.
6365. Gallardo Moscoso, Hernn. Presencia de Loja y su provincia: antropologa social.
Loja: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de Loja, 1978. 510 p. (Fisonoma de Loja; [2])
6366. Gallegos, Gerardo. Erranzas por tierras australes. Guayaquil: Libr. e Impr. La
Reforma, 1924. 1 v.
Cuenca, Loja, and their provinces in the 1920s. Only vol. published.
6367. Garca Negrete, Jorge. La Provincia del Azuay dentro del marco de la geopoltica
ecuatoriana, Revista geogrfica (Quito), 22 (dic. 1985), 31-54.
6368. Gondard, Pierre. Interrogantes en torno a la regin sur, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr.
1983), 343-350.
6401. Palomeque, Silvia. Cuenca en el siglo XIX: la articulacin de una regin, 1 ed.
Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, Sede Ecuador: Abya-Yala,
1990. 296 p.
The authors thesis de maestra, originally presented as: La regin de Cuenca en el siglo
XIX. 1987. FLACSO. A major contribution to the demographic and economic history of Azuay
and Caar during the 1800s. Based almost entirely on original research.
6402. Palomeque, Silvia. Espacio, especializacin productiva y circulacin mercantil de
Cuenca en el siglo XIX, Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 4:7 (1990), 13-110.
Consists of excerpts from the authors Cuenca en el siglo XIX (item 6401).
6403. Palomeque, Silvia. Historia econmica de Cuenca y sus relaciones regionales: desde
fines del siglo XVIII a principios del XIX, Revista del Archivo Nacional de Historia, Seccin
del Azuay, 1 (1979), 104-149, 247-259.
A preliminary study of the economic structure and commercial network of the Governorship
of Cuenca during the late colonial period, drawing on materials in the Archivo Nacional de
Historia: Seccin del Azuay. Also published in abridgement in: Ensayos sobre historia regional
(item 6346), p. 117-140; and in whole in: Segundo encuentro de historia y realidad econmica y
social del Ecuador (item 574), t. 1, p. 127-168; and in: Revista del IDIS, 6 (1979), 77-128. See
also the authors Continuidad y cambio entre la colonia y la repblica: estudio de los circuitos
mercantiles y de las especializaciones regionales en Cuenca, Ecuador, Circuitos mercantiles y
mercados en Latinoamrica: siglos XVIII-XIX (Mxico: Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. Jos
Mara Luis Mora; Instituto de Investigaciones Histricas UNAM, 1995), p. 235-290.
6404. Palomeque, Silvia. Loja en el mercado interno colonial, HISLA, 2 (1983), 33-45.
6405. Palomeque, Silvia. La sierra sur (1825-1900), Historia y regin en el Ecuador,
1830-1930 (item 6591), p. 69-142.
A prcis of Palomeques larger study: Cuenca en el siglo XIX (item 6401).
6406. Paz, Clotario E. El drama de Loja. Quito: Tall. Grf. Americana, 1940. 97 p.
6407. Petitjean, Martine; and Yves Saint-Geours. La economa de la cascarilla en el
Corregimiento de Loja, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr. 1983), 171-207.
A pioneering study of the quinine trade during the late colonial period.
6408. Pietri-Lvy, Anne-Lise. Loja, une province de lEquateur: de lisolement
lintgration. Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1986. 160 p.
6409. Planificacin seccional y planificacin regional: 29 y 30 de marzo de 1988, Macar,
Ecuador. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo, Secretara General de Planificacin, 1988. iii,
281 p.
6410. Poloni, Jacques. Acats et ventes de terres para les indiens de Cuenca au XVIIe sicle:
lments de conjoncture conomique et de stratificacion sociale, Bulletin de lInstitut franes
dtudes andines, 21:1 (1992), 279-310.
Analyzes 1,118 notarial records, from 1592-1699, of land sales by Indians in the
Corregimiento of Cuenca in order to construct a quantitative matrix for study of various aspects
of the economic and social history of the region and of its Indian inhabitants during the mid
colonial period. A wholly original (for Ecuador), methodologically sophisticated, and
extraordinarily important piece of work. Also published in Spanish as: Compras y ventas de
tierras por los indios de Cuenca en el siglo XVII: elementos de coyuntura econmica y de
estratificacin social, Memoria, MARKA, 3 (1993), 1-39.
6411. Probanza de don Joan Bistancela, cacique de Toctes: de su noble y limpia sange y de
los servicios que prest su padre al rey, [liminar y transcripcin de Guillermo Segarra Iiguez].
Quito: COMINTUR, [1976] 37 p.
6412. Ramrez Salcedo, Carlos. Un da de cosecha en la comunidad de Sicsiwaico,
Provincia de Caar, Revista del Instituto Azuayo de Folklore, 5 (dic. 1973), 111-125.
Also published in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 5 (dic. 1974), 9-23.
6413. Ramn Valarezo, Galo. Loja y Zaruma: entre las minas y las mulas, 1557-1700,
Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 4:7 (1990), 111-143.
A novel as well as original study of the rise (1580s and 90s) and decline (1620s and 30s) of
gold mining in Zaruma and the impact the initial prosperity and subsequent pauperization and
quasi depopulation of Zaruma had the hacendados of Loja.
6414. Relaciones coloniales inditas de la Provincia de Loja, [transcripcin y edicin de]
Chantal Caillavet, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr. 1983), 441-479.
Publishes several early and late colonial period descriptions of the Province of Loja,
including eight relaciones geogrficas, one from 1765, and seven from 1808.
6415. Saint-Geours, Yves. La Provincia de Loja en el siglo XIX, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr.
1983), 209-233.
The first attempt by anyone to reconstruct the demographic and economic history of the
Province of Loja in the 1800s. Based almost entirely on original research.
6416. Salgado, Germnico. Crisis y activacin en una economa regional: la experiencia de
Cuenca y su zona de influencia (1950-1970). Cuenca: Centro de Reconversin Econmica del
Azuay, Caar y Morona-Santiago, 1980. 96 p.
Examines and explains the recovery of Cuenca and its zone of influence (i.e., the Provinces
of Caar and Azuay) from the collapse of the export market for straw hats, following World War
II. Highlights the importance of infrastructure investments, especially those overseen by CREA.
Reprinted: Cuenca: Centro de Reconversin Econmica del Azuay, Caar y Morona-Santiago,
1982. 87 p.
6417. Samaniego, Juan. Monografa sinttica de la Provincia de Loja. Quito: Tall. Grf.
del Ministerio de Educacin, 1944. 53 p.
6418. Segarra Iiguez, Guillermo. La comunidad de indios de San Sebastin de Sigsig y
sus fabulosos ttulos, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia (Quito), 60:129/130
(ene./dic. 1977), 103-141.
ORIENTE
6428. Amazon crude, Judith Kimerling [et al.]; edited by Susan S. Henriksen. New York:
Natural Resources Defense Council, 1991. 131 p.
An overview of the detrimental impact of virtually uncontrolled and for all practical purposes
unregulated oil development on the environment and cultures of the Oriente. Also published
in Spanish as: Crudo amaznico, 1 ed. en espaol. Quito: Abya Yala, 1993. 152 p. For an
update, see Kimerling, Oil, Lawlessness and Indigenous struggles in Ecuadors Oriente, Green
Guerrillas: Environmental Conflicts and Initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean: a
Reader, edited by Helen Collinson (London: Latin American Bureau, 1996), p. 61-73. N.B. All
of Kimerlings charges against the oil industry have been supported and for the most part
substantiated by independent research. See, for example, Douglas DeWitt Southgates El
desarrollo petrolero en bosque hmedos tropicales: la economa del control de la contaminacin
en el Oriente ecuatoriano (Quito: Instituto de Estrategias Agropecuarias, 1992) and his
Petroleum Development in Tropical Rainforests: The Economics of Pollution Control in Eastern
Ecuador, Ecodecisin, 5 (1992), 78-81, in addition to his and Morris D. Whitakers Economic
Progress and the Environment (item 7440).
6429. La Amazonia presente y ... ?, [edicin de Fernando Larrea]; AA.VV. [i.e., autores
varios], 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala: Grupo Ecolgico Tierra Viva: ILDIS, [1988?] 420
p.
Publishes papers presented at the Seminario Anlisis Medio Ambiental de la Regin
Amaznica held Quito in 1987.
6430. Andrade Marn, Francisco. La regin oriental del Ecuador, o sea, Consideraciones
poltico-econmicas sobre el territorio de Oriente. Quito: Impr. de M. Rivadeneira, 1884. 39 p.
6431. Andrade Marn, Francisco. Viaje a la regin oriental del Ecuador. Quito: Impr. de
M. Rivadeneira, 1884. 16 p.
6432. Ardito Vega, Wilfrido. Obligaciones y sanciones de los indios en las reducciones de
Maynas, La Evangelizacin del Per: siglos XVI y XVII: actas del Primer Congreso Peruano de
Historia Eclesistica, Arequipa, 1990 ([Arequipa: Arzobispado de Arequipa, 1992?]), p. 365376.
6433. Autos e informacin fechos de oficios de la Real Justicia y por pedimento del
Procurador General de la ciudad de Santiago contra los indios Jbaros a S.M., 1653, Revista de
Archivos y Bibliotecas Nacionales (Lima), 3 (1899), 281-301.
6434. Autos fechos y actuados por el general don Martn de la Riva Herrera, sobre
conquista de indios infieles, 1646-1655, Revista de Archivos y Bibliotecas Nacionales (Lima), 3
(1899), 1-117, 352-412.
Riva Herrera was the Corregidor of Cajamarca and conqueror of Omaguas, Motilones,
Jbaros, Cocamas and other ethnic groups in the Upper Amazon according to his claims.
6435. Barral, Henri. Las transformaciones en la utilizacin del medio en la Amazonia
ecuatoriana (Provincia del Napo) a travs de la foto-interpretacin, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr.
1986), 743-756.
6436. Beerman, Eric. Expedicin de Francisco Requena al Ro Caqueta en 1782, Boletn
de historia y antigedades, 80:782 (jul./sept. 1993), 671-681.
6437. Beerman, Eric. Pintor y cartgrafo en las Amazonas: Francisco Requena, Anales del
Museo de Amrica, 2 (1994), 83-97.
An appreciation of the ten watercolors, which Beerman reproduces, and the eight maps
produced by Requena during his years (1778-1785) as a member of the Fourth Boundary
Commission.
6438. Beghin, Francisco Javier. Informe sobre las condiciones de servidumbre vigentes en
las haciendas del Oriente ecuatoriano, Humanitas, 5 (1964), 112-128.
6439. Bitsch, Jorgen. Across the River of Death: True Adventure in the Green Hell of the
Amazon. London: Souvenir Press, 1958. 200 p.
6440. Bravo, Vicente M. Viaje al Oriente, 1905-1906. Quito: Estado Mayor General, 19191920. 2 v.
6441. Bromley, R.J. Agricultural Colonization in the Upper Amazon Basin: The Impact of
Oil Discoveries, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 63 (Juli/Aug. 1972), 278294.
6442. Buchwald, Otto von. Caminos al Oriente, Boletn de la Sociedad Geogrfica de
Quito, 1 (1911), 78-88.
6443. Bustamante, Teodoro. Larga lucha del Kakaram contra el sucre. Quito: Abya-Yala,
1988. 278 p.
A well researched history of the Shuar, formerly known to outsiders as Jbaros.
6444. Capitulaciones fechas por el general don Diego Vaca de Vega, corregidor de
Yahuarzongo para la entrada y castigo de los indios Maynas, y otros, Revista de Archivos y
Bibliotecas Nacionales (Lima), 3 (1899), 333-352.
6445. Carvajal, Gaspar de. Relacin del nuevo descubrimiento del famoso Ro Grande de
las Amazonas, edicin, introduccin y notas de Jorge Hernndez Millares, 1 ed. Mxico: Fondo
de Cultura Econmica, 1955. 157 p.
A modern, scholarly acceptable edition of the only first hand account of the discovery and
exploration of the Amazon by Francisco de Orellana (1541-1542).
The original Spanish edition, Relacin del nuevo descubrimiento del Ro Grande de las
Amazonas: segn la relacin hasta ahora indita, con una introduccin histrica y algunas
ilustraciones por Jos Toribio Medina (Sevilla: Impr. de E. Rasco, 1894) has been reissued with
an added Antecedentes histricos by Octavio Latorre. Quito: Gobierno del Ecuador; the
Comisin Nacional Permanente de Conmemoraciones Cvicas; Museo Antropolgico del Banco
Central de Guayaquil, 1992. 279 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana amaznica; vol. 1) Also published
in English as: The Discovery of the Amazon According to the Account of Friar Gaspar de
Carvajal and Other Documents . . ., introduction by J.T. Medina, translated by Bertram T. Lee.
New York: American Geographical Society, 1934. xiv, 467 p.
6446. Causa fecha etc., ... por el Procurador General de Santiago de las Montaas, contra
los indios Jbaros sobre muertes y robos, etc., 1653, Revista de Archivos y Bibliotecas
Nacionales (Lima), 3 (1899), 303-332.
6447. Cipolleti, Mara Susana. Lacrimabili statu: Indianische Sklaven in
Nordwestamazonien, 17.-20. Jahrhundert, Beitrge zur Kulturgeschichte des westlichen
Sdamerika, Albert Meyers, Martin Volland (Hrsg.) (Opladen: Westdeutschen Verlag, 1990), p.
207-226.
An exploratory essay on the nature and practice of slavery among ethnic groups of the Upper
Amazon Basin from colonial times through the present. Focuses especially on relations between
the Tucano, Zparo, and Omaguas.
Also published in a revised Spanish version as: Lacrimabili statu: esclavos indgenas en el
noroeste amaznico, siglos XVII-XIX, Revista de Indias, 55:205 (sept./dic. 1995), p. 551-571.
Both versions are based on archival research as well as published materials, especially accounts
of Jesuit missionaries.
6448. Cipolleti, Mara Susana. Un manuscrito tucano del siglo XVIII: ejemplos de
continuidad y cambio en una cultura amaznica, Revista de Indias, 52:194 (ene./abr. 1992),
181-195.
Essay on an important ethnohistorical and linguistic find, a 1753 grammar, vocabulary, and
catechism in Tucano (still spoken by the Siona / Secoya). The original manuscript is in the New
York Public Library.
6449. Complementary Perspectives as a Means of Understanding Regional Change:
Frontier Settlement in the Ecuador Amazon, L.A. Brown [et al.], Environment and Planning A,
24:7 (July 1992), 939-961.
The complementary perspectives employed are ideographic, context-dependent
generalizations, and universally applicable frameworks. A worthwhile, data rich study,
notwithstanding the jargon.
6450. Conquista de la regin jvaro, 1550-1650: relacin documental, estudios y
compilacin Anne Christine Taylor, Cristbal Landzuri N. Quito: MARKA, Instituto de
Historia y Antropologa Andina: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 471 p.
A basic set of primary source materials. See also item 6470.
6451. Construccin de la Amazonia andina (s. XIX-XX): procesos de ocupacin y
transformacin de la Amazonia peruana y ecuatoriana entre 1820 y 1960, Pilar Garca Jordn,
coordinadora. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 250 p.
6452. Cordero, Luis. Una excursin a Gualaquiza. Cuenca: Impr. Andrs Cordero, 1875.
37 p.
At the time of Corderos visit (apparently undertaken in 1875), Gualaquiza was inhabited by
barbarians or Jbaros (i.e., Shuar) and gente civilizada que ha ido a establecerse en la
misma. Reprinted in: Indianistas, indianofilos, indigenistas (item 7946), p. 412-452.
6453. Crespo Toral, Remigio. Conferencia acerca de la colonizacin y caminos a la regin
oriental ecuatoriana, es especial al sur. Cuenca: Tip. Catlica , 1919. 65 p.
6454. Custode, Edmundo; and Michel Sourdat. Paisajes y suelos de la Amazonia
ecuatoriana: entre la conservacin y la explotacin, Cultura, 8:24a (ene./abr. 1986), 325-337.
6455. Chiriboga, Luca; and Soledad Cruz. Retrato de la Amazonia: Ecuador, 1880-1945, 1
ed. Quito: Ediciones Libri Mundi Enrique Grosse-Luemern, 1992. 225 p.
6456. DallAlba, Joo Leonir. Pioneros, nativos y colonos: El Dorado en el siglo XX, 1 ed.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Petroecuador; Misin Josefina de Napo, 1992. 442 p.
6457. Defendamos nuestra tierra! Defendamos nuestra vida! Quito: CEDEP;
CONFENIAE, 1985. 28 p.
6458. Diagnstico de la Provincia del Napo. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Washington,
D.C.: Secretara General de la OEA, Departamento de Desarrollo Regional, 1988. 5 v.
Contents: vol. 1, Recursos naturales y econmicos; vol. 2, Aspectos demogrficos y sociales;
vol. 3, Aspectos regionales; vol. 4, Potencialidades y limites; vol. 5, Mapas de la Provincia del
Napo.
6459. Ekstrom, J. Peter. Colonist Strategies of Verticality in an Eastern Valley, Cultural
Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 327-355.
6460. Ekstrom, J. Peter. Responding to a New Ecology: Adaptations of Colonists in
Eastern Ecuador, Papers in Anthropology, 16:1 (Spring 1975), 25-38.
Items 6459 and 6460 are studies of the settlement and exploitation of the Cuyes Valley in
Morona Santiago Province by out-migrants from Gima, a cholo village in southeastern Azuay.
See also the authors doctoral dissertation (item 8726).
6461. Estudio socio-econmico de los Ros Amazonas y Napo, IPA (Investigacin y
Promocin de la Amazonia). Quito: Publicaciones CETA, [1979?]. 2 v.
Contents: vol. 1, Visin de los caseros: muestra y aspectos demogrficos y migratorios de
los dos ros; vol. 2, El Trabajo, el comercio y la agricultura en los Ros Amazonas y Napo.
6462. Federacin de Centros Shuar. Federacin de Centros Shuar: solucin original a un
problema actual. Suca: La Federacin, 1976. 318 p.
6463. Fernndez de Cevallos, Pedro. La ruta de la canela americana, edicin de Marcelo
Fras y Andrs Galera. Madrid: Historia 16, 1992. 246 p.
First edition of a 1775-1795 expediente in the Real Jardn Botnico (Madrid) regarding
efforts of the first intendant of Jan de Bracamoros, an ambateo, to extract cinnamon from the
Land of Cinnamon (i.e., the Canelos district, Quijos province).
6464. Flor, Lino Mara. Caminos al Oriente: opinin y solicitud. Quito: Maquinaria
Tipogrfica de J. Senz R., 1903. 23 p.
6465. Fritz, Samuel. Journey of the Travels and Labors of Father Samuel Fritz, in the River
of the Amazons between 1686 and 1723, translated from the Evora MS., and edited, with
introduction and notes by George Edmundson. London: Hakluyt Society, 1922. viii, 164 p.
Not previously published in Spanish, but see: Diario del Padre Samuel Fritz, presentado por
Hernn Rodrguez Castelo. Quito: Revista de las Fuerzas Armadas Ecuatorianas, 1997. 154 p.
The title of the original MS. is: Ibanomas y otras naciones desde Napo hasta el Ro Nuevo. A
major source for the study of the historical geography of the Upper Amazon Basin as well as for
the history of the Jesuit missions in the area. Father Fritz (1656-1725) spent 37 years in the
missions and was responsible for the drafting of the first hydrographic map of Amazonia. Fritz is
also supposed to have drafted the apparently yet to be published: Geografa de las misiones del
Maran: origen y principio de este gran ro y su curso, hasta el Par, desde el ao de 1690 hasta
el de 1707.
6466. Garcs, Alicia. La economa colonial y su impacto en las sociedades indgenas: el
caso de la Gobernacin de Quijos (Ecuador), siglos XVI-XVII, Amazonia indgena, 12:19 (ene.
1992), 14-23.
6467. Gil Munilla, Ladislao. Descubrimiento del Maran. Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios
Hispano-Americanos, 1954. xvi, 389 p.
A well researched history of the discovery and early explorations of the Amazon River.
6468. Gill, Richard Cochran. White Water and Black Magic. New York: H. Holt, 1940.
369 p.
6469. Gill, Richard Cochran, Mrs. Mrs. Robinson Crusoe in Ecuador, National
Geographic Magazine, 65:2 (Feb. 1934), 133-172.
The adventures of a young American couple who setup a civilized outpost in the jungle
so that Dick might pursue his ethnological studies of primitives (in this case, Canelos
Quichua). Different times, different mentalities. See also the preceding item.
6470. La Gobernacin de los Quijos, 1559-1621, Diego Hortegn [et al.]; introduccin e
indices, Cristbal Landzuri; compilacin, MARKA, Instituto de Historia y Antropologa
Andina. Iquitos, Per: IIAP: CETA, 1989. 464 p. (Monumenta amaznica. A; 1)
A major set of primary sources.
6471. Golop, Ann L. The Upper Amazon in Historical Perspective. 1982. xviii, 329
leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York.
6472. Gonzlez, Angel; and Juan Santos Ortz de Villalba. Biografa de una colonizacin:
kms. 7-80, Lago Agrio a Coca. Quito: Centro de Investigaciones Culturales de la Amazonia
Ecuatoriana, [1976?]. 83 p.
An account of one of the colonizations of the Oriente by migrants from the highlands.
6473. Gonzlez, Angel; and Juan Santos Ortz de Villalba. Ro Napo: realidad amaznica
ecuatoriana. Quito: Ediciones CICAME; Popeya: Vicariato Apostlico de Aguarico, 1985. 214
p.
6474. Granja, Julio Csar. Nuestro Oriente: de unas notas de un viaje. Quito: Impr. de la
Universidad, 1942. 242 p.
6475. Hermessen, J.L. Journey on the Rio Zamora, Ecuador, Geographical Review, 4:4
(Dec. 1917), 434-449.
6476. Hernndez Bello, Miguel. Descripcin del Govierno de Quijos: formada en
compendio por su actual gefe el capitn de dragones voluntarios de la septima compaa de
Guaranda Dn. Miguel Hernndez Bello, acompaada de una brebe noticia o derrotero del
Shuar territory. Also published in: Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 14
(1994), 83-104.
6496. Lucena Salmoral, Manuel. La delimitacin hispano-portuguesa y la frontera regional
quitea, 1774-1804, Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 4 (I sem. 1993), 21-39.
A brief overview of the labors of the Maran Commission of 1778-1804, especially of
Francisco Requena, and a preliminary analysis of Requenas 1785 Descripcin del Gobierno de
Mayas, recently published by Mara del Carmen Martn Rubio in Historia de Maynas: un
paraso perdido en el Amazonas (item 6501) and independently by Pilar Ponce Leiva in
Relaciones histrico-geogrficas de la Audiencia de Quito (item 1492), vol. 2, p. 658-700.
6497. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Ecuador amaznico, Revista del Centro de Estudios
Histricos de Cuenca, 38 (mar. 1943), 125-164.
Reviews the exploration and settlement of the Upper Amazon Basin in the second half of the
sixteenth century.
6498. Martn Rubio, Mara del Carmen. Historia de Maynas: un paraso perdido en el
Amazonas: (descripciones de Francisco de Requena). Madrid: Ediciones Atlas, 1991. cxliv,
116 p.
A critical edition of Requenas geographical accounts of the Oriente. Preceded by a solid,
lengthy, well documented biographical study of Requena by Martn Rubio. Therefore two works
in one.
6499. Martnez Salaberra, Javier. Napo, subdesarrollo evitable. Quito: Fundacin
Interayuda, 1990. 202 p.
A survey and analysis of resource base, social conditions, and economy of the Province of
Napo by a public health specialist.
6500. Los Meandros de la historia en Amazonia: memorias del Simposio sobre Etnohistoria
Amaznica, 45 Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Bogot, Universidad de los Andes, 1-7
de julio 1985, Roberto Pineda Camacho, Beatriz Alzate Angel (compiladores). Quito: AbyaYala: MLAL, 1990. 354 p.
6501. Memoriales, cartas, etc., sobre las entradas y conquistas de D. Martn de la Riva
Herrera en los indios Maynas, Jbaros, etc., 1651-1665, Revista de Archivos y Bibliotecas
Nacionales (Lima), 4 (1900), 1-161.
6502. Mera J., Wilson Humberto; and Valther Ernesto Montao Torres. Colonizacin de la
regin amaznica en el desarrollo capitalista. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1984. 254 p.
6503. Moncayo Andrade, Abelardo. Problemas del Oriente ecuatoriano: explotacin,
construccin de vas frreas, colonizacin de la regin Oriente, etc. segn el Contrato MartnezAguirre-Moncayo. Quito: El Tiempo, 1908. 44 p.
6504. Muller, Richard. Orellanas Discovery of the Amazon River. Guayaquil: Edit. Jouvin,
1937. 79 p.
6505. Muoz, Juan Pablo. Quijos. Quito: Direccin General para la Cooperacin al
Desarrollo del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de Italia, 1990. 123 p.
6506. Muratorio, Blanca. Rucuyaya Alonso y la historia social y econmica del Alto Napa,
1850-1950, 1a ed. Quito: Abya Yala, 1987. 341 p.
A history of the Canelos Quichua as recounted by an elder and as reconstructed by an
anthropologist. Also published in English as: The Life and Times of Grandfather Alonso:
Culture and History in the Upper Amazon. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
xii, 295 p.
6507. La Nacin Shuar: documentacin etnohistrica, edicin de Alfredo y Piedad Costales.
[Suca]: Mundo Shuar, 1977. 85 p.
6508. Oberem, Udo. Un grupo indgena desaparecido del Oriente ecuatoriano, Revista de
antropologia (Sao Paulo), 15/16 (1967-1968), 149-170.
Research notes on the Omaguas, who apparently disappeared during the late-colonial or
early-national period. Reprinted in item 607.
See also Linda A. Newsons Between Orellana and Acua: A Lost Century in the History of
the North-West Amazon, Bulletin de lInstitut franes dtudes andines, 25:2 (1996), 203-231.
Newson reexamines the history of the Quijos region, following the uprising of 1578, utilizing
new data from the AGI and the Jesuit archives in Rome on the several all but forgotten Spanish
expeditions mounted into the Coca, Aguarico, and Napo valleys between 1580 and 1636. She
demonstrates that the Alonso de Miranda expeditions (1618-1622) had an especially devastating
impact on the populations of the Omaguas and other ethic groups inasmuch as the entradas
disrupted existing social relations, enhanced intertribal warfare, and resulted in large numbers
being enslaved or killed in conflict.
6509. Oberem, Udo. Los Quijos: historia de la transculturacin de un grupo indgena en el
Oriente ecuatoriano. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1980. 394 p. (Coleccin
Pendoneros; 16)
Reprint; originally published: Madrid: Departamento de Antropologa y Etnologa de
Amrica, Universidad de Madrid, 1970-1971. 2 v. Now a classic, originally a pioneering study
of the history of the Quijos or Napo Quichua. Covers the 1500s through the first half of the
1900s. Based on research in Spanish archives as well as published sources and secondary
literature.
6510. Oberem, Udo. Trade and Trade Goods in the Ecuadorian Montaa, Native South
Americans: Ethnology of the Least Known Continent, edited by Patricia J. Lyon (Boston: Little,
Brown and Company, 1974), p. 346-357.
Reprinted from: Folk, 8/9 (1967), 243-258. An overview of patterns of trade among the
indigenous peoples of the Upper Amazon Basin from pre-Inca times through the early twentieth
century.
6511. Olivier Girot, Pascal. Resistencia indgena y la evolucin de fronteras en el Ro
Chinchipe, Alto Maran, Revista de historia (Heredia, Costa Rica), 21/22 (ene./dic. 1990),
119-148.
6533. Porras P., Mara Elena. Gobernacin y obispado de Mainas: siglos XVII y XVIII.
Quito: Abya-Yala; Taller de Estudios Histricos, 1987. 136 p.
A study of the governorship and bishopric of Mainas as institutions in the 1600s and 1700s.
6534. Problema indgena y colonizacin, fotografa, Rolf Blomberg. Quito: Fondo
Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressio, 1983. 18 p.
Este folleto es fruto de aos de trabajo y reflexin al interior de la UNAE (Unin de Nativos
de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana)--Presentacin.
6535. Problemtica indgena y colonizacin en el Oriente ecuatoriano: reflexiones nacidas
al interior de la U.N.A.E. (Unin de Nativos de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana). Quito: U.N.A.E.,
[1986?]. 53 p.
6536. Problemtica social y agraria en el Oriente ecuatoriano: reflexiones nacidas al
interior de la U.N.A.E. (Unin de Nativos de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana). Quito: U.N.A.E., 1985.
71 p.
6537. Rainey, Froelich. Quinine Hunters in Ecuador, National Geographic Magazine,
89:3 (Mar. 1946), 341-363.
Regarding the extraction of cinchona bark, the source of quinine, from the rainforest during
the World War II years. As of July 1997, an unwritten chapter in the economic history of the
Oriente.
6538. Ramos P., Manuel; and Emmanuel Fauroux. Las zonas socio-econmicas
actualmente homogneas de la regin amaznica ecuatoriana. Quito: M.A.G., Programa
Nacional de Regionalizacin Agraria, 1980. 112 p.
6539. Real cdula de 1772 estableciendo las Gobernaciones de Borja, Quijos y Macas:
instrucciones dadas por el presidente de la Real Audiencia don Jos Diguja, a los gobernadores
de Maynas y de Macas, [versin de] Carlos Vivanco, Boletn de la Academia Nacional de
Historia, 18:54 (jul./dic. 1939), 125-137.
6540. Reeve, Mary-Elizabeth. Cauchu Uras: Lowland Quichua Histories of the Amazon
Rubber Boom, Rethinking History and Myth: Indigenous South American Perspectives on the
Past, edited by Jonathan D. Hill (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988), p. 19-34.
A working paper on the history of the Runa Curaray, a group of Quichua Canelos, especially
during and following the rubber boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Also published in
Spanish as: Cauchu Uras: el auge del caucho en la Amazonia, en la historia oral de los Runa
Curaray, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 5:5 (1985), 47-62.
6541. La Regin amaznica ecuatoriana, Centro Ecuatoriano de Investigacin Geogrfica.
Quito: Instituto Geogrfico Militar, Departamento de Artes Grficas, 1983. 89 p.
Contents: Michel Portais, Los actores del espacio en la regin amaznica; Guillermo
Almeida and Michel Sourdat, Gnesis geolgica y morfolgica de la Amazonia y sus
implicaciones actuales; Alfonso Caldern, La vivienda shuar y achuar en su entorno sociocultural y geogrfico; Henri Barral, Poblamiento y colonizacin espontnea en la Provincia del
Napo en 1977; Jorge Uquillas Rodas, Colonizacin dirigida en el Nor-Oriente ecuatoriano.
6542. Requena, Francisco. Correspondencia del coronel don Francisco Requena, primer
comisario de la cuarta partida de demarcacin de lmites entre los dominios de Espaa y
Portugal, Revista de archivos y bibliotecas (Lima), 4 (1900), 163-382.
6543. Requena, Francisco. Diario del viaje al Japur, [estudio preliminar por] Michle
Cohen, Suplemento de Anuario de estudios americanos, 40:2 (1988), 3-68.
A major ethnohistorical as well as historical geographic source on the Upper Amazon Basin
in the late 1700s.
6544. Requena, Francisco. Ilustrados y brbaros: diario de la exploracin de lmites al
Amazonas (1782), edicin, introduccin y notas de Manuel Lucena Giraldo. Madrid: Alianza
Edit., 1991. 152 p.
Contents: Descripcin de varios caminos que dan paso desde la ciudad de Quito al Ro del
Maran (1777); Diario del viaje hecho al Ro Japur ... (1782); Instrumento de las noticias
adquiridas por los indios Omaguas del Ro de los Engaos o Comiari (1782); Instrumento
sobre las noticas adquiridas por los indios Corotus del Ro de Apaporis (1782).
6545. Retos de la Amazonia, Teodoro Bustamante [et al.]. Quito: IDIS; Abya-Yala, 1993.
201 p.
6546. Reyes, Oscar Efrn; and Francisco Tern. Historia y geografa del Oriente
ecuatoriano. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1939. 134 p.
6547. Roig Torres, Bienvendio Luis. Fomento agrcola de las provincias orientales del
Ecuador (cuenca amaznica). Quito, Impr. Municipal, 1923. 1 v.
Only t. 1, Impresiones de viaje, was published.
6548. Rudel, Thomas K. Resource Partitioning and Regional Development Strategies in
the Ecuadorian Amazon, Geojournal, 19:4 (Dec.1988), 437-446.
Examines relations between the Shuar and mestizo colonists, from the highlands, in the
Province of Morona Santiago and its consequences.
6549. Rudel, Thomas K. Road, Speculators, and Colonization in the Ecuadorian Amazon,
Human Ecology, 11:4 (Dec.1983), 385-403.
6550. Rudel, Thomas K.; with Bruce Horowitz. Tropical Deforestation: Small Farmers and
Land Clearing in the Ecuadorian Amazon. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. xv,
234 p.
The authors, a sociologist and an attorney, respectively, offer a case study and a somewhat
different explanation of the ongoing destruction of the rainforest in the Oriente, especially in the
Upano-Palora region in the Province of Morona Santiago, and of those responsible for the
disappearing forest, migrant settlers from the highlands and interestingly enough also the Shuar
themselves, albeit to a much lesser extent.
6551. Rumazo Gonzlez, Alfonso. Album-gua de la regin oriental ecuatoriana, 1 ed.
Quito: Edit. Artes Grficas de C. Briz Snchez, 1934. 66, [10] p.
6552. Rumazo Gonzlez, Jos. La regin amaznica del Ecuador en el siglo XVI. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1982. vii, 272 p.
Reprinted from the edicin especial: Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispanoamericanos,
1946. xi, 268 p. Originally published in: Anuario de estudios americanos, 3 (1946), 1-268. A
history of sixteenth and early seventeenth-century Spanish explorations of and efforts to
colonize, to evangelize, and to exploit the Upper Amazon Basin. Based on considerable original
research, especially in the Archivo General de Indias.
6553. Saavedra y Guzmn, Martn de. Relacin del descubrimiento del Ro Amazonas y hoy
San Francisco de Quito. Quito: Impr. del Gobierno, 1942. 86 p. (Biblioteca Amazonas; 3)
6554. Salazar, Ernesto. An Indian Federation in Lowland Ecuador. Copenhagen: IWGIA,
1977. 68 p.
A history of the early years of the Shuar Federation. See also item 8274.
6555. Salazar, Ernesto. Pioneros de la selva: los colonos del Proyecto Upano-Palora.
Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1989. 305 p.
A study of the cultural, ecological, and economic effects of the colonization of the R. Upano
and R. Palora areas, in the Province of Morona Santiago, by highlanders, especially from the
Provinces of Caar and Azuay, beginning in 1970, and sponsored by the Centro de Reconversin
Econmica del Azuay.
6556. Los Salesianos y la Amazonia: relatos de vaijes, 1893-1909, [recopilados por] Juan
Bottasso. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1993-. <1> v.
6557. Salinas, Juan de. Relacin que hace Juan Salinas de los servicios prestados en la
Comisin de Lmites con el Maran y pide que en mrito de ellos, se le de el grado de capitn
[1789], ARNAHIS, 12:18 (10 ago. 1970), 76-86.
6558. Samaniego, M.J.; and Jorge Toro Anda. Monografa de algunas poblaciones de la
regin oriental. Quito: Impr. del Ministerio de Defensa Nacional, 1939. 89 p.
6559. Sarmiento, Alberto. Biografa del Ro Napo. Quito: Edit. Mercedaria, 1955. 189 p.
6560. Sarmiento, Alberto. Monografa cientfica del Oriente ecuatoriano. Quito: [s.n.],
1958. 318 p.
6561. Silva, Rafael Euclides. El dorado amaznico: (esbozo de un problema), Boletn del
Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 6:8/11 (1941), 30-52, 55-80.
6562. Simson, Alfred. Travels in the Wilds of Ecuador, and the Exploration of the
Putumayo River. London: Simpson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1886. v, 270 p.
One of the more amenable accounts. See also item 7435. Also published in Spanish as:
Viajes por las selvas del Ecuador y exploracin del Ro Putumayo. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1993. xvii, 274 p.
6563. Sinclair, Joseph H. In the Land of Cinnamon: a Journey in Eastern Ecuador,
Geographical Review, 19:2 (Apr. 1929), 201-217.
6564. Sinclair, Joseph H.; and Theron Wasson. Explorations in Eastern Ecuador,
Geographical Review, 13:2 (Apr. 1923), 190-210.
6565. Sobre la prdida de la familia de don Pedro Grameson en la Provincia de Mainas
[1770], ARNAHIS, 12:18 (10 ago. 1970), 111-150.
6566. Taylor, Anne-Christine. El Oriente ecuatoriano en el siglo XIX: el otro litoral,
Historia y regin en el Ecuador, 1830-1930 (item 6591), p. 17-67.
Notwithstanding the chronological delimiters in the title, an essay on the history of the Upper
Amazon Basin from 1540 through 1940. A splendid piece that pulls together the disparate
studies of missionaries, the boundary dispute with Peru, ethnic groups, and the economics of
exploitation, especially of cinchona bark and rubber, into a coherent, meaningful whole.
6567. Tempestad en la Amazonia ecuatoriana, coordinador, Nelson Gmez; colaboradores,
Segundo Moreno, Orlando Lpez, Antonio Narvez. Quito: CIESA, 1992. 180 p.
6568. Tenencia de la tierra y proceso social en la Amazonia ecuatoriana: mensaje de los
obispos de las misiones catlicas desde la fe y la solidaridad. Quito: Conferencia Episcopal,
1986. 25 p.
6569. Testimonio de las diligencias fechas en la provincia de los Jbaros por el general don
Martn de la Riva, Revista de Archivos y Bibliotecas Nacionales (Lima), 3 (1899), 483-613.
6570. Tobar Donoso, Julio. La navegacin del Amazonas en el decenio de 1850-60,
Boletn de la Academia Nacional de Historia, 48:105 (ene./jun. 1965), 70-104.
6571. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Un nuevo mapa de las misiones ecuatorianas, Boletn de la
Academia Nacional de Historia. 35:85 (ene./jun. 1955), 72-88.
An essay on the cartographic and ecclesiastical data in Juan Magnins 1740 Breve
descripcin de la Provincia de Quito (item 7360).
6572. Tovia, Gaspar. Carta que sobre los ltimos sucesos de la Provincia Oriental dirige el
R.P. Vicario Apostlico de la Misin a S.E. el Presidente de la Repblica. [Quito?: s.n., 1892?].
60 p.
Caption title. Signed: Gaspar Tovia.
6573. Traslado de los autos fechos por el General don Gonzalo Rodrguez de Monroy,
corregidor de la ciudad de San Francisco de Quito, para la entrada, conquista y pacificacin de
los indios Jbaros, 1643-1651, Revista de Archivos y Bibliotecas Nacionales (Lima), 3 (1899),
117-261.
6574. Trujillo Len, Jorge. La Amazonia en la historia del Ecuador, Nueva historia del
Ecuador (item 615), vol. 12, p. 227-251.
The history of the Upper Amazon Basin as seen from the outside. That is to say, this essay
examines external views of the Oriente as well as the significance of the region to the outside
world.
6575. Up de Graff, Fritz W. Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and
Adventure. New York: Duffield, 1923. xiii, 337 p.
The memoirs of a North American who spent seven years (1894-1901) exploring the Upper
Amazon Basin. Useful as an ethnohistorical source. Also published in Spanish as: Cazadores de
cabezas del Amazonas: siete aos de exploraciones y aventuras. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1996. x, 403 p.
6576. Uquillas Rodas, Jorge Colonization and Spontaneous Settlement in the Ecuadorian
Amazon, Frontier Expansion in Amazonia, edited by Marianne Schmink and Charles H. Wood
(Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1984), p. 261-284.
6577. Vega Toral, Toms. Algunas consideraciones sobre nuestro Oriente amaznico y
monografa del Cantn Gualaquiza. Cuenca: Edit. Don Bosco, 1958. 109 p.
6578. Vega Toral, Toms. El descubrimiento y primer viaje por el Ro de las Amazonas
(1541-1542): monografa histrica. Cuenca: Tip. Municipal, 1942. 112 p.
6579. Villacrs Moscoso, Jorge W. El porvenir amaznico: los grandes problemas de la
hoya amaznica y sus probables soluciones, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 43 (dic.
1981), 68-76.
6580. Villalobos, Mariano. Exposicin de Mariano Villalobos sobre su expedicin al Pas
de la Canela, Museo Histrico, 26 (mar. 1957), 28-42.
A report from 1791.
6581. Wesche, Rolf. Ecoturism and Indigenous Peoples in the Resource Frontier of the
Ecuadorian Amazon, Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 19 (1993), 1341.
Describes both lodge and backpacking ecotourism in Napo Province with a focus on
initiatives by Quijos Quichua to control part of the tourist activity.
6582. Ynez, Marcial. Por el Oriente ecuatoriano ... Barcelona: Librera Salesiana, 1924.
viii, 173 p.
REGIONALISM
6583. Bossano, Luis. Apuntes acerca del regionalismo en el Ecuador, 2 ed. Quito: Tip. de
Prensa Catlica, 1930. 178 p.
6584. Caillavet, Chantel. Entre sierra y selva: las relaciones fronterizas y sus
representaciones para las etnias de los Andes septentrionales, Anuario de estudios americanos,
46 (1989), 71-91.
6585. Collin Delavaud, Anne. El poder de Guayaquil y la dominacin reciente de Quito en
la valoracin de la costa, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr. 1986), 701-709.
6586. La Cuestin regional y el poder, editor: Rafael Quintero. Quito: Corporacin Editora
Nacional, 1991. 304 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 29)
Contents: Rafael Quintero, Legitimidad, poder y regin: bases para una discusin (p. 1327); Rafael Quintero and Erika Silva, Regin y representacin poltica en el Ecuador
contemporneo (1939-1959) (p. 29-87); Juan Maiguashca and Liisa North, Orgenes y
significado del velasquismo: lucha de clases y participacin poltica en el Ecuador, 1920-1972
(p. 89-159); Berthe Garca, Regionalismo y modernas tendencias polticas (p. 161-206); Nick
D. Mills, Sector privado y estado nacional en el Ecuador democrtico, 1979-84 (p. 207-245);
Amparo Menndez-Carrin, Regin y elecciones en el Ecuador, 1952-1988: elementos para el
debate (p. 247-296).
6587. Damerval, Jaime Francisco. Equilibrio regional, fuerza nacional. Guayaquil: [s.n.],
1979. 138 p.
6588. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Regionalismo y migracin, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Archivo Histrico
del Guayas, 1977. xvii, 296 p.
An essay on the role of regionalism from pre-Hispanic times through the recent present and
on the history of migration within as well as to Ecuador. N.B. The majority of the quantitative
framework (analysis as well as data) were furnished by Michael T. Hamerly.
6589. Francisco, Alice E. Factores culturales en la historia de las relaciones entre sierra y
Oriente del Ecuador, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 21:38 (1971), 202-228.
6590. Guerrero, Rafael. Regionalismo y democracia social en los orgenes del CFP.
Quito: CAAP, 1994. 92 p.
6591. Historia y regin en el Ecuador, 1830-1930, Juan Maiguashca. editor. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional: FLACSO-Sede Ecuador: CERLAC, 1994. 436 p. (Biblioteca de
ciencias sociales; 30)
An anthology of five essays on specific regions in the 1800s and 1900s, for the particulars of
which see items 5934, 6033, 6267, 6407, and 6566, and of two essays on interregional relations
(item 1924) and national integration (item 2114). An exceptionally important contribution to the
history of regions and regionalism.
6592. Kasza, Gregory J. Regional Conflict in Ecuador: Quito and Guayaquil, InterAmerican Economic Affairs, 35:2 (Autumn 1981), 3-41.
Also published in Spanish as: Conflicto regional en el Ecuador, Revista del Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 9:18 (dic. 1980), 39-76.
6593. Maiguashca, Juan. La cuestin regional en la historia ecuatoriana (1830-1972),
Nueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 12, p. 175-226.
A multivariant analysis of the role of regionalism from the creation of the country through the
recent present. Also important as a running commentary on the state of Ecuadorian
historiography regarding this frequently alluded to but, as of the late 1990s, insufficiently studied
phenomenon.
HISTORICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF ECU ADOR
Vol. III
In addition to the works cited below, see also: Las Ciudades en la historia (item 558).
6611. Godard, Henri. Las mutaciones recientes de los centros de Quito, Guayaquil y
Cuenca: transformaciones funcionales, renovacin y recuperacin, Revista geogrfica (Quito), 25
(abr. 1987), 93-108.
6612. Gravelin, Blandine. Proceso de urbanizacin en zonas pioneras, El Espacio urbano en
el Ecuador (item 6605), p. 170-181.
6613. Hurtado, Osvaldo. Dinmica de la urbanizacin, El Proceso de urbanizacin en el
Ecuador (item 6626), p. 133-140.
6614. Idrovo Murillo, Jaime. Municipio y desarrollo regional: el caso de Azuay, Caar y
Morona Santiago, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 1061-1064.
6615. Klak, Thomas. Why Do Shelter Conditions Differ in Ecuadoran Cities and How Do
We Know That They Do?: A Comparative Locality Study, Environment and Planning A , 25:8
(Aug. 1993), 1115-1130.
A comparative study of housing conditions among the lower class in Guayaquil and Quito as
of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
6616. Larrea Maldonado, Carlos. Crecimiento urbano y dinmica de las ciudades
intermedias en el Ecuador (1950-1982), El Proceso de urbanizacin en el Ecuador (item 6626), p.
97-132.
Also published in abridgement as: Urbanizacin y dinmica de las ciudades intermedias en el
Ecuador (1950-1982), Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 817-827.
6617. Len, Juan. Geodemografa de la red urbana ecuatoriana (1950-1982), El Espacio
urbano en el Ecuador (item 6605), p. 37-55.
6618. Middleton, DeWight R. Ecuadorian Transformations: An Urban View, Cultural
Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 211-232.
A cogent examination of the dynamics and problems of urban growth in the 1950s and
1960s, with particular attention to the primary cities of Quito and Guayaquil, the secondary
cities of Manta and Ibarra, and the tertiary cities of San Lorenzo and Puyo.
6619. Ortiz de la Tabla Ducasse, Javier. Los ncleos urbanos del Ecuador colonial: siglos
XVI-XVII, Ciencia, vida y espacio en Iberoamrica (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientficas, 1989), t. 2, p. 415-437.
A review of the role of Spanish cities and towns in the Audiencia during the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries. Stresses the hegemony of San Francisco de Quito and examines
economic and demographic developments.
6620. Peltre, Pierre; and Jos Rodrguez Rojas. Problemas ambientales del crecimiento
urbano, El Espacio urbano en el Ecuador (item 6605), p. 184-197.
6621. Pietri-Lvy, Anne-Lise. La red urbana de la Provincia de Loja: crecimiento urbano y
cambios socio-econmicos, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 781-791.
6622. Placencia, Mara Mercedes; and Hugo Vsquez. Reflexiones acerca de las
condiciones de trabajo y de vida en el sector informal urbano, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986),
991-1006.
6623. Portais, Michel. Las ciudades intermedias de la sierra, El Espacio urbano en el
Ecuador (item 6605), p. 136-157.
6624. Portais, Michel. Flujos y areas de influencia urbana, El Espacio urbano en el Ecuador
(item 6605), p. 76-105.
6625. Portais, Michel. El papel de las ciudades intermedias de la sierra en la evolucin de
la red urbana ecuatoriana, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 829-841.
6626. Portais, Michel; and Jos R. Rodrguez. Jerarqua urbana y tipo de ciudades en el
Ecuador, El Espacio urbano en el Ecuador (item 6605), p. 56-75.
6627. El Proceso de urbanizacin en el Ecuador: del siglo XVIII al siglo XX, compilador,
Fernando Carrin. Quito: Edit. El Conejo; Centro de Investigaciones Ciudad, 1986. 299 p.
An anthology of previously published studies on urban growth and developments from 1750
through the 1982 census.
6628. Ramos Prez, Demetrio. La doble fundacin de ciudades y las huestes, Estudios sobre
la ciudad iberoamericana, Francisco de Solano (coordinador), 2 ed. ampliada (Madrid: Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientficas, Instituto Gonzalo Fernndez Oviedo, 1983), p. 107-138.
Examines the multiple foundations of Quito and Guayaquil.
6629. Riz, Liliana de. El proceso de urbanizacin en el Ecuador, 1950-1962, El Proceso de
urbanizacin en el Ecuador (item 6626), p. 25-63.
6630. Rodrguez Rojas, Jos. Construccin de los conjuntos urbanos Manta-Portoviejo y
Machala-Puerto Bolvar, El Espacio urbano en el Ecuador (item 6605), p. 274-285.
6631. Rodrguez Rojas, Jos. Crisis del transporte urbano en Quito, Guayaquil y Cuenca,
El Espacio urbano en el Ecuador (item 6605), p. 232-240.
6632. Rodrguez Rojas, Jos. El proceso de urbanizacin en la costa ecuatoriana, El Espacio
urbano en el Ecuador (item 6605), p. 158-170.
Also published in: Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 805-813.
6633. Rosales, Mario. El municipio ecuatoriano: realidad y perspectivas, Cultura, 8:24c
(ene./abr. 1986), 1039-1050.
6634. Torres D., Vctor D. El municipio y las formas espaciales en la ciudad, Cultura,
8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 1065-1072.
6635. Urban-System Evolution in Frontier Settings, Lawrence A. Brown [et al.],
Geographical Review, 84:3 (July 1994), 249-265.
An essay on new and expanding towns in the Oriente, specifically Tena, Puyo, Macas,
Zamora, Lago Agrio (Nueva Loja), and Coca.
6636. Vargas, Jos Mara. Urbanismo primitivo de las ciudades ecuatorianas. Quito: Edit. Casa
de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1959. 53 p.
AMBATO
6637. Acosta Sols, Misael. A mbato visto desde la conquista y sntesis de la Provincia de
Tungurahua. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, 1980. 66 p.
Originally published as: Ambato visto desde la conquista: comentarios de cronistas y viajeros
extranjeros y sntesis geogrfica de la Provincia de Tungurahua, Boletn de informaciones
cientficas nacionales (Quito), 15:109/110 (1979), 143-208.
6638. Arias, Augusto. En elogio de A mbato. Quito: Tall. Nacionales, 1926. 96 p.
6639. Balarezo Moncayo, Pedro. La maravilla de A mbato; Hombres, ciudades y tierras del
Tungurahua. Quito: Impr. del Ministerio de Educacin, 1942. 144 p.
6640. Cical, Mario Mara. El padre Mario Mara Cical informa los daos que causa en
aquella ciudad el juego de boliche, Revista del A rchivo N acional de Historia, Seccin del A zuay, 2
(1980), 105-118.
At head of title: Ambato 24 de febrero de 1759.
6641. Freile Larrea, Jos. Vecinos de Ambato en 1606, Sociedad A migos de la Genealoga,
1:1 (mar. 1983), 37-42.
Although I have not seen this item, it is probably a transcription of an early-seventeenthcentury padrn of the vecinos of Ambato. See also Freile Larreas Vecinos de Riobamba en
1606, Sociedad A migos de la Genealoga, 1:3 (nov. 1981), 127-154, that published, apparently for
the first time, a nominative list by the corregidor of Villardompardo (i.e., Riobamba) de los
vecinos y moradores de la dicha villa y sus haciendas, edades y lo dems. Both padrones were
drawn up in conjunction with the 1608 relaciones geogrficas of the central highlands, Los
Pueblos de la villa de el Villar Don Pardo and Villar Don Pardo, for the texts of which see
item 1521.
6642. Garcs, Vctor Gabriel. A mbato, sociografa de un pueblo ejemplar. Ambato: Edit.
Municipal, 1953. 25 p.
Originally published in: A mrica (Quito), 18:74 (1942), 80-91.
6643. Jornadas de Historia Social (12 : 1991: Ambato, Ecuador). Jornadas de Historia Social:
XII ecuatorianas y III colombo-ecuatorianas: A mbato, junio 1991, [participantes, Manuel de
Guzmn Polanco et al.]. Ambato: Casa de Montalvo, 1992. 2 v.
Consists mostly of essays on the history of Ambato and genealogy of ambateos. The usual
mixed bag, some based on archival research, some based on published materials. Some
innovative in approach and findings, others exercises in rhetoric.
CU EN CA
6654. Aguilar Maldonado, Carlos. El municipio y sus empleados y obreros. Cuenca: Tall.
Grf. Municipales, 1964. 161 p.
6655. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. La antigua Tomebamba y Cuenca que nace: estudio histrico.
Cuenca: Impr. Municipal, 1946. 160 p.
6656. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Cuenca, la ciudad que sonre. Cuenca: Municipalidad de
Cuenca, 1948. 47 p.
6657. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Fundacin de la ciudad de Cuenca en A mrica: estudio
histrico. Cuenca: Municipalidad de Cuenca, 1941. 268 p.
6658. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Historial de la fundacin de la ciudad de Cuenca. Cuenca:
Tall. Grf. Municipales, 1957. 61 p.
6659. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Monografa histrica de Cuenca. Cuenca: Edit. Austral,
[1948?]. 238 p.
Based on many years of original research, including archival.
6660. A lbum-gua de la ciudad de Cuenca. Cuenca: Concejo Cantonal, 1932. 105 p. Chiefly
ill.
Cover title: Cuenca en 1932.
Edicin ordenada por el muy ilustre Concejo Cantonal bajo la direccin de don Vicente
Moreno-Mora.
6661. Arzaga Guzmn, Dora. El centro histrico de Cuenca: centro urbano de
intercambio, centro poltico institucional, rea residencial y de concentracin del
equipamiento, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 909-917.
6662. Arzaga, Rafael Mara; and Honorato Vzquez. Blasones y estandartes de la ciudad de
Cuenca. Cuenca: Tip. Catlica, 1920. 29 p.
6663. Borrero, Alfonso Mara. Dcadas de Cuenca, 1557-1567. Cuenca: Municipalidad de
Cuenca, 1967. xxiv, 127 p.
Reprint; originally published: Cuenca: Impr. de la Universidad del Azuay, 1894. A chronicle
of the first decade of the city.
6664. Brownrigg, Leslie Ann. The Nobles of Cuenca: The Agrarian Elite of Southern
Ecuador. 1972. xxii, 564 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University.
A study of the upper class of the city. See also item 6692.
6665. Crdenas Reyes, Mara Cristina. Cuenca, comuniad y lenguaje. Cuenca: Universidad
de Cuenca, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 1984. 306 p.
6666. Carpio Vintimilla, Julio. Cuenca, su geografa urbana, 1 ed. Cuenca: Lpez Monsalve
Editores, 1979. 174 p.
6667. Carpio Vintimilla, Julio. La evolucin urbana de Cuenca en el siglo XIX. Cuenca:
Universidad de Cuenca, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 1983. 115 p.
6692. Hirschkind, Lynn. On Conforming in Cuenca. 1981. vii, 407 leaves. Thesis
(Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin.
On the social structure and upper class of the city.
6693. Iglesias, Agustn. Estudio de la ubicacin geogrfica de la ciudad de Tomebamba,
Revista del Centro de Estudios Histricos de Cuenca, 38 (mar. 1943), 101-113.
Maintains that Cuenca was founded at Paucarbamba in the region--not literally over the
ruins of the city--of Tomebamba. According to Iglesias, this explains why so little in the way of
Inca remains have survived in or near the Spanish/Ecuadorian city itself.
6694. Jaramillo Medina, Carlos. Evolucin histrica de la ciudad de Cuenca, Revista
geogrfica (Quito), 26 (dic. 1987), 117-138.
Although disappointing as an essay in historical geography, somewhat redeemed by the
reproduction of several colonial period maps of the city.
6695. La Condamine, Charles Marie de. Lettre Madame *** sur lemeute populaire excite
en la ville de Cuenca au Perou, le 29 daot 1739: contre les acadmiciens des sciences, envoys pour la
mesure de la terre. Paris, 1746. 108 p.
Recounts the events that culminated in the lynching of Jean Seniergues.
6696. El Libro de oro: edicin conmemorativa del IV centenario de la fundacin espaola de
Cuenca del Ecuador. Cuenca: El Tiempo, 1957. 198 p.
6697. Lowder, Stella. Cuenca, Ecuador: Planners Dream or Speculators Delight?, T hird
World Planning Review, 12:2 (May 1990), 109-130.
6698. Lloret Bastidas, Antonio. Cuencanaras, 2 ed. rev. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, Ncleo del Azuay, 1990. 274 p.
Contents: Cuenca: la fundacin, los hombres, el paisaje, los avitares; Por que nos llaman
morlacos?; El Eco del A zuay: primer peridico de Cuenca; La huelga de los indios; Antao
la vida era as; Artistas y artesanos, msicos y cantores; De lance en lance; Un forzado de
las letras de molde.
6699. Malo Gonzlez, Claudio. Cuenca, 1 ed. Bogot: Mayr & Cabal Ltda.; Quito:
Ediciones Libri Mundi Enrique Grosse-Luemern, 1991. 141 p. Chiefly col. ill.
An exceptionally well done coffee table book. Also published in an English version.
6700. Mrquez, Ezequiel. A dministracin de la hacienda pblica de Cuenca desde 1793 a 1822.
Riobamba: Prensa Catlica, 1924. 20 p.
6701. Mrquez, Ezequiel. Ultimos das de la monarqua espaola en Cuenca, Boletn de la
Biblioteca N acional, nm. extraordinario (24 de mayo de 1922), 47-70.
6702. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Cuenca, la ciudad colonial. Cuenca: Tall. Grf. del Clero,
1965. 204 p.
Originally written as a series of newspaper articles. See also Mrquez Tapias Cuenca colonial
(Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1995; 290 p.; [Biblioteca de historia ecuatoriana; v. 13]),
a reprint and amplification of Cuenca, la ciudad colonial. I.e., La segunda parte, que consta en
un original mecanografiado, fue conservado por su nieto Juan Tama Mrquez ... Illustrated with
reproductions of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century photographs from the collection of
Dr. Miguel Daz Cueva.
6703. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Cuenca, la ciudad eucarstica. Quito: Prensa Catlica; Edit.
Ecuatoriana, 1933. 294 p.
6704. Mrquez Tapia, Ricardo. Elenco de los fundadores de Santa Ana de los Ros de
Cuenca, Museo Histrico, 4 (27 feb. 1950), 105-122.
6705. Miles, Ann. Helping Out at Home: Gender Socialization, Moral Development, and
Devil Stories in Cuenca, Ecuador, Ethos, 22:2 (June 1994), 132-157.
A study of devil stories told by migrant parents to their children in order to reinforce lessons
about gender behavior, reciprocity between kinship members, and family cooperation. These
stories also criticize the breakdown of ideal (i.e., traditional) behavior in the urban context.
See also Miless Pride and Prejudice: The Urban Chola and the Transmission of Class and
Gender Ideologies in Cuenca, Ecuador, Balancing A cts: Women and the Process of Social Change,
edited by Patricia Lyons Johnson (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), p. 120-139, a case study of
the impact of modern urban life on a chola cuencana, her husband, and their children.
6706. Moldstad, Gro Mathilde. Guardiana de la fe: oposicin religiosa y negociacin de
identidad: los nobles de Cuenca, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1996. 134 p.
A study of the role of the Catholic Church and religious beliefs, particularly devotion to the
Virgin Mary, in the social life and structure of the city, especially among members of the
traditional ruling class.
6707. Moreno Egas, Jorge. Pasquines subversivos contra el gobierno espaol aparecidos en
Cuenca en 1795, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 62:133/134 (ene./dic. 1979), 193196.
6708. Muoz Carrasco, Mnica. El Banco Central del Ecuador en Cuenca: edicin
conmemorativa del sexagsimo aniversario de su establecimiento en Cuenca. Cuenca: Banco Central
del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1988. 227 p.
A history of the Banco Central in Cuenca.
6709. Pan, panaderas y sitoplstica en la ciudad de Cuenca, Gloria Malo de Ramrez [et
al.], Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 3 (1971), 75-100.
Also published in: Revista del Instituto A zuayo de Folklore, 4 (nov. 1971), 75-100; and
reprinted in: Recopilacin de investigaciones sobre artesana (Cuenca: Instituto Azuayo de Folklore,
1975), 49-74.
6710. Paniagua Prez, Jess. La esclavitud en Cuenca del Per (1770-1810), Estudios
humansticos (Len), 8 (1986), 121-143.
6711. Pesntez de Moscoso, Gloria. Tejas, ladrillos y adobes en la Parroqua de Sinincay,
Cantn Cuenca, Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 3 (1971), 181-201.
Also published in: Revista del Instituto A zuayo de Folklore, 4 (nov. 1971), 181-201; and
reprinted in: Recopilacin de investigaciones sobre artesana (Cuenca: Instituto Azuayo de Folklore,
1975), p. 75-95.
6712. Revista cronolgica de los presidentes y secretarios del ilustre Concejo Municipal de
Cuenca: desde cuando el Ecuador organizado en Estado Independiente y Soberano, dict el 27
de septiembre de 1830, la Ley sobre municipalidades, reglamentando la vida comunal, Tres de
noviembre, 141 (abr. 1985), 65-110.
6713. Rothchild, John; and Judy Rothschild. Cuenca: gua turstica = Tourist Guide.
Cuenca: Asociacin de Turismo del Azuay, 1970. 63 p.
In Spanish and English. Well illustrated.
6714. Salazar, Ernesto. Rito religioso y rito secular en la Octava de Corpus de Cuenca,
Procesos: revista ecuatoriana de historia, 2 (I sem. 1992), 51-71.
An anthropological and historical study of the celebration of the Corpus Cristi in the city: a
religious rite more or less monopolized by the aristocracy, yet at the same time, a secular rite of
the popular classes.
6715. Sarmiento Abad, Octavio. Cuenca y yo: reminiscencia. Cuenca: Tall. Grf. de Edit.
Amazonas, 1981-1984. 2 v.
Anecdotes and miscellaneous episodes and scenes from the first third of the twentieth
century, especially from the 1920s. The memoirs of a native son.
6716. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Biognesis de Cuenca. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1957. xvi, 296 p.
A well researched history of pre-Hispanic and early Hispanic Cuenca. Notable for inclusion
of substantial economic data and some coverage of social conditions.
6717. Truhan, Deborah L. Mi ultimada y postrimera boluntad: trayectoras de tres
mujeres andinas: Cuenca, 1599-1610, Histrica (Lima), 15:1 (jun. 1991), 121-155.
Publishes and analyzes last will and testament of three Indian women who died in Cuenca,
only one of whom was a native of the city, during the early colonial period. Exemplifies the
wealth of socioeconomic data to be found in the notarial records of Cuenca, apparently the most
complete in the country.
6718. Visita de don Pedro Martnez de Arizala a la ciudad de Cuenca, 1735), estudio
introductorio y transcripcin documental de Manuel Carrasco V., Revista del Centro de Estudios
Histricos y Geogrficos de Cuenca, 46 (1981), 125-172.
6719. Viva Cuenca!, A bajo el Ecuador! Quito: Edit. Cultura Popular, [1974?] 164 p.
GU AYAQU IL
In addition to the various almanacs, directories, and guides listed below, see: A lmanaque de
las seoras y seoritas (Guayaquil: Impr. de J.J. Sono, 1861; 37 p.); A lmanaque ilustrado de
Guayaquil, edited by Jenaro Barboso (Guayaquil: Impr. de El Telgrafo, 1906-1907; 2 v.);
A lmanaque ilustrado ecuatoriano, edited by Jacinto Jouvin Arce (Guayaquil: Impr. La Reforma,
1914); and Gua comercial de Guayaquil, edited by J. Lassus Cadeville (Impr. Mercantil, 1905; 93
p.)
6720. Aguirre, Mara del Rosario. La accin habitacional del Estado en Guayaquil, 1972-1979,
1 ed. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Quito, 1984. ii, 204 p.
Cover title: Estado y vivienda en Guayaquil.
6721. Albornoz Peralta, Osvaldo. La masacre del 15 de noviembre de 1922. Guayaquil: Edit.
Claridad, 1985. 16 p.
From the authors: Historia del movimiento obrero ecuatoriano (item 2218). Not a reliable
account.
6722. A lbum-gua de la ciudad de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Impr. y Tall. Municipales, 1929.
[172] p. Chiefly ill.
6723. Algunos documentos acerca de Guayaquil, [transcitos con una introduccin por]
L.F. Borja (hijo), Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 2:3/4 (ene./abr. 1921), 103-138.
Publishes miscellaneous correspondence of Governor Juan de Mata y Urbina (1796-1803).
6724. Argudo Chejin, Mariana. Pandillas juveniles en Guayaquil, 1 ed. Quito: ILDIS, 1991.
76 p.
A study of gangs and juvenile delinquency.
6725. Arosemena, Guillermo. Banco de Descuento. Guayaquil: G. Arosemena, 1987-1989.
2 v.
A history of the Banco de Descuento.
Contents: vol. 1. Origen, fundacin y aos de gloria, 1910-1952; vol. 2. La cada y ruina del
Banco de Descuento: una tragedia guayaquilea.
6726. Arribas, Filemn. Nuevas noticias sobre don Ramn Garca de Len y Pizarro,
gobernador de Guayaquil, Homenaje a don Ciriaco Prez Bustamante (Madrid: Instituto Gonzalo
Fernndez Oviedo, 1969-1970) vol. 2, p. 21-48.
Pizarro was governor between 1779-1790. Also published in: Revista del A rchivo Histrico del
Guayas, 1:2 (dic. 1972), 45-67.
6727. Aspiazu Carbo, Miguel. El acta de la fundacin de la ciudad de Santiago de
Guayaquil (Santiago de la Provincia de Quito): 15 de agosto de 1534, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa (Guayaquil), 20:37 (1970), 223-253.
6728. Aspiazu Carbo, Miguel. Las fundaciones de Santiago de Guayaquil: primera etapa de la
colonizacin espaola del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas,
1955. 340 p.
In items 6727 and 6728, Aspiazu Carbo argues that Santiago de Guayaquil was founded
provisionally as Santiago de Quito in the sierra and subsequently renamed Santiago de
Guayaquil upon being relocated in the littoral and that, therefore, Guayaquil is the oldest
Spanish city in Ecuador, having been the first founded.
6729. Baleato, Andrs. Monografa de Guayaquil, Museo Histrico, 45/46 (dic. 1963),
189-281.
The most scholarly acceptable version, as of July 1997, of this early nineteenth-century
relacin geogrfica of the port city and its district, transcribed from a coeval copy of, if not the
original, manuscript. Supposed to have been published for the first time in Lima in 1820. That
Baleato, a notable member of the Peruvian illustrati of the late colonial and early national
periods wrote Monografa de Guayaquil then and there is undoubtedly the case, but I have
been unable to find a copy or a bibliographic description or catalogue record of said 1820
imprint and therefore doubt that Baleatos Monografa de Guayaquil was published at that
time. Available in several late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century editions and versions,
beginning with that of Guayaquil: Impr. de la Nacin, 1887, edited by Pedro Carbo, probably
the first published version thereof.
6730. Banco Central del Ecuador: breve historia de la fundacin de la Sucursal Mayor en
Guayaquil, Julio Estrada Ycaza [et al.]. Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, Archivo
Histrico del Guayas, 1987. 1 v. in various paginations.
6731. Barbosa, Gnaro. A lmanaque ilustrada de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Impr. de El
Telgrafo, 1906. 235 p.
6732. Becker, Alfredo. Crisis de las finanzas pblicas en Guayaquil, 1 ed. Quito: ILDIS,
1992. 78 p. (Guayaquil futuro).
6733. Bernal Ruz, Mara del Pilar. La toma del puerto de Guayaquil en 1687. Sevilla: Escuela
de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1979. xiv, 116 p.
A licentiate thesis on the pirate taking and sacking of the port city. Based on original
research in the Archivo General de Indias. Unfortunately, marred by careless mistakes,
especially in the identification of places.
6734. Bock, Marie Sophie. Guayaquil: arquitectura, espacio y sociedad, 1900-1940. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1992. 130 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 38).
A study of the growth and urbanization of the port city from the turn of the century through
the eve of World War II. Pays particular attention to barrios and building styles.
6735. Buchwald, Federico von. Donde estuvo Amay?: contesta don Federico von
Buchwald, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 14/16:30/32 (1964/1966), 112-119.
Regarding the site of one of the pre-definitive asentamientos of Guayaquil. Argues in favor of
Samborondn. See also item 6849.
6754. Chvez Franco, Modesto. Crnicas del Guayaquil antiguo, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Impr. y
Tall. Municipales, 1944. 2 v.
A true second edition in that Chvez Franco added additional chronicles. But beware the
element of fable in that Chvez Franco wrote a la Ricardo Palma without always distinguishing
between fact and fiction.
6755. Chvez Franco, Modesto. Historia del cuerpo de bomberos de Guayaquil: desde la
fundacin de la ciudad, 1537 hasta 1951. Guayaquil: Impr. y Tall. Municipales, [1951?]. 550 p.
A more or less factually accurate account. Also published in reprint: 2 ed. Guayaquil:
Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 1985. 2 v.
6756. Dalmau Gavilanes, Francisco. El joven delincuente en Guayaquil: estudio psiquitrico.
Guayaquil: Unin Grfica, 1983. 250 p.
6757. Descripcin de Guayaquil, Monumentos literarios del Per, colectados por D.
Guillermo del Ro (Lima: Imprenta de los Hurfanos, 1812), p. 155-161.
An anonymous account of the port city and its province. Drafted circa 1800.
6758. Desarrollo histrico de Guayaquil: la ciudad a travs de sus planos. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil; Comisin de Defensa del Patrimonio Nacional, 1987. 22 leaves.
Chiefly ill.
Reproduces plans of the port city, beginning with that of Alsedo y Herrera (1740).
6759. Destruge, Camilo. El edificio de la Biblioteca Municipal: relacin histrica, Boletn
de la Biblioteca Municipal de Guayaquil, 3:60 (ago. 1916), 285-304.
6760. Destruge, Camilo. La gran defensa de Guayaquil: relacin documentada. Guayaquil:
Impr. Gutenberg, 1911. 35 p.
6761. Destruge, Camilo. Historia del Cuerpo de Bomberos de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: y Tip. de
El Comercio, 1915. 32 p.
6762. Destruge, Camilo. El primer vapor ecuatoriano, Boletn de la Biblioteca Municipal de
Guayaquil, 3:64 (mayo 1917), 357-361.
An essay on the Compaa del Guayas that built the first steamship in Ecuador, the San
Vicente Guayas in 1841.
6763. Directorio general de Guayaquil: gua comercial, industrial, postal, informativa y profesional,
publicada anualmente por la Agencia de Publicidad y Propaganda de J. San Andrs P. 1921[1928/1929?]. Guayaquil: Agencia de Publicidad y Propaganda de J. San Andrs P., 1921[1928?]. [4?] v.
An important guide to commercial, industrial, government and other establishments in the
port city during the 1920s. This directory appeared in at least four editions. Unfortunately
printed on acidic newsprint. Therefore very few copies of any issue have survived.
6764. Documentos de la poca colonial: padrones de la ciudad antigua, [transcritos por]
Pedro Robles y Chambers, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 2:2 (1932), 73-77.
6783. Garay, Guido. Estampas de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Colegio de Abogados del Guayas,
1989. 243 p.
An anthology of newspaper accounts by a leading participant in the cultural life of the city,
especially in music and the theater.
6784. Garay Arellano, Ezio. La lite econmica de los negros de Guayaquil de 1742 a
1765, Coleccin A migos de la Genealoga, 24 (nov. 1987), individually paginated.
Abstracts seven last wills and testaments from the second third of the eighteenth century of
free blacks in the port city. Also published in: A ctas del primer Congreso de Historia del N egro en
el Ecuador y Sur de Colombia (item 527), p. 113-121.
See also the same authors Los negros en Guayaquil en 1850--also published in item 527 (p.
123-133)--an analysis of the 1849 census of the city.
6785. Garca de Veliz, Graciela; and Gaitan Villavicencio de Loor. La transformacin urbana
en Guayaquil (1985-1990): realidad y perspectivas, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Instituto de Investigaciones
Econmicas y Polticas; Quito: ILDIS, 1993. 95 p. (Guayaquil futuro; 6).
6786. Godard, Henri. El perodo cacaotero en el Ecuador (1890-1925) y sus repercusiones
en Guayaquil, nuevo centro de gravedad del pas, Revista geogrfica (Quito), 26 (dic. 1987),
139-172.
6787. Gonzlez Bazo, Belisario. Crnica del gran incendio acaecido en Guayaquil el 5 y 6 de
octubre de 1896. Guayaquil: Tip. de El Grito del Pueblo, 1896. vi, 68 p.
A detailed account of the great fire of 1896 and of the losses suffered during the
conflagration.
6788. Gonzlez Surez, Federico. Carta al Sr. D. Carlos Alberto Flores, concejal del I.A. de
Guayaquil, Boletn eclesistico (Quito), 23:19 (1916), 593-597.
Regarding the foundations of the port city.
6789. Guayaquil (Ecuador). Cabildo. A ctas del Cabildo colonial de Guayaquil. Guayaquil:
Archivo Histrico del Guayas, 1972-<1988>. <7> v.
Indispensable records for the study of developments in the port city and its district during the
seventeenth century. (N.B. All of the sixteenth-century and early-seventeenth-century libros
de cabildos were lost centuries ago, to the ravages of climate, insects, and fire.) Originally
transcribed by Jos Gabriel Pino Roca, whose edition of the first four books (A ctas del Cabildo
colonial de la ciudad de Guayaquil [Guayaquil: Impr. Municipal, 1919]) this version supersedes.
Revised by Rafael Euclides Silva in the 1950s, and Juan Freile Granizo in the 1970s. Only the
first book of Silvas version was published: A ctas del Cabildo de Guayaquil, 1634-1639.
Guayaquil: Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1970. 557 p. Silvas version of book one
was reissued by the Archivo Histrico del Guayas in 1972, The next six books, covering the
years 1640-1649, 1650-1657, 1660-1668, 1670-1679, 1682-1689, and 1690-1694 may be said to
correspond to Freiles version inasmuch as he revised the Pino/Silva reading against the original
manuscripts.
6790. Guayaquil (Ecuador). Consejo Municipal. A ctas de las sesiones efectuadas por el ilustre
Concejo Municipal de Guayquil. Guayaquil: Impr. Municipal, 1910-1912. 3 v.
6791. Guayaquil (Ecuador). Concejo Municipal. Manifiesto que el I. Concejo Cantonal de
1926 a 1929 presenta a la ciudad al terminar sus labores. Guayaquil: Impr. y Tall. Municipales,
1929. 53 p.
6792. Guayaquil. Junta de Beneficencia. 75 aos de constante labor para atender necesidades
permanentes de la colectividad social, 1888-1963: apuntes histricos y descripcin de servicios que
presta. Guayaquil: La Junta, 1963-. <1> v.
6793. Guayaquil 70: metropoli dinmica, Demetrio Aguilera Malta [et al.] editores.
Guayaquil: D. Aguilera Malta [et al.], 1970. 302 p.
A multi-authored anthology on various aspects of the port city. Especially strong on the
independence and Gran Colombia periods inasmuch as this work was produced to celebrate and
to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the 9 de Octubre.
6794. Guayaquil 1936. Guayaquil: Empresa de Propaganda Ecuatoriana, 1936. 1 v. (not
paginated). Chiefly ill.
A photo album.
6795. Guayaquil a travs de los siglos, prlogo y notas por Eliecer Enrquez B. Quito: Tall.
Grf. Nacionales, 1946. xiii, 136 p.
An anthology of travel and other coeval accounts of the port city and its province. Only
vol. 1 was published.
6796. Guayaquil de ayer. Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y
Cultura, 1985. xvii, 176 p. Chiefly ill. (Coleccin imgenes del Ecuador; 6).
Portrays the port city through time and space, employing coeval drawings and photographic
views Compiled and annotated by Julio Estrada Ycaza.
6797. Guayaquil en 1924. Guayaquil: Tall. Grf. de la Ilustracin, 1924. 1 v. (not
paginated). Chiefly ill.
A photo album.
6798. Guayaquil para usted. Guayaquil: CETUR, 1994. 67 p.
A tourist guide. Cover title: Para usted: Guayaquil.
6799. Guayaquil, realidades y desafos: seminario realizado por la Corporacin de Estudios para el
Desarrollo, CORDES, Fernando Caldern [et al.]. Quito: CORDES, [1989?]. 376 p.
6800. Guerrero, Andrs. Los oligarcas del cacao: ensayo sobre la acumulacin originaria en el
Ecuador: hacendados cacaoteros, banqueros, exportadores y comerciantes en Guayaquil (1890-1910),
2 ed. Quito: Edit. Conejo, 1983. 101 p.
A pioneering study, reprinted several times, of the composition and identity of cacao
hacendados of the central-south coast and bankers, exporters, and merchants of the port city,
and of the relationships between these groups circa 1900. Rightly praised and increasingly relied
upon by national and foreign scholars. Unfortunately, however, Guerreros Los oligarcas del
cacao has not become the point of departure for more in depth research. In this regard, it cannot
be over emphasized that far more information, including quantifiable, exists in print and in the
archives for a more finely honed and much more detailed study of the members of the gran
cacao.
6801. Gua de bolsillo de Guayaquil: 1924-1925. Guayaquil: Librera e Impr. La Reforma,
1924. 64 p.
6802. Gua de Guayaquil y almanaque de La N acin para 1902 y 1903. Guayaquil: Impr. de
La Nacin, 1902. 181 p.
6803. Gua de Guayaquil y almanaque de La N acin para 1904. Guayaquil: Empresa Edit.
de La Nacin, 1904. lii, 291 p.
Apparently items 6802 and 6803 were compiled and edited by Vicente Paz.
6804. Hamerly, Michael T. El comercio del cacao de Guayaquil durante el perodo colonial: un
estudio cuantitativo. Quito: Comandancia General de Marina, 1976. 75 p.
A quantitative survey of the rise of the cacao trade from its origins in the seventeenth
century through the boom of the late colonial period. In passing, has something to say also
about general economic developments in the port city and its district. Based almost entirely on
archival research. Includes a documentary appendix.
6805. Hidalgo Gonzlez, Pedro. Monografa sinttica de Guayaquil = Guayaquil, its history, its
commerce, its industries, its possibilities, 2 ed. reformada. Guayaquil: El Concejo Municipal, 1939.
72 p.
The first ed. appeared in 1937.
6806. Historia de la Gaceta Municipal, Revista Municipal (Guayaquil), 1:1 (9 oct. 1925), 23; 1:2 (9 nov. 1925), 23; 1:3 (9 dic. 1925), 10.
6807. Huerta, Pedro Jos. Las cofradas guayaquileas, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa,
3:9 (dic. 1953), 167-220.
As of July 1997, one of the only two studies undertaken of church sponsored burial and
mutual aid societies of the port city and its district. Detailed and well researched but far from
exhaustive. For the other study see item 6015.
6808. Huerta, Pedro Jos. Un histrico solar guayaquileo, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 4:10-11 (ago. 1954), 137-180.
A history of the lot on which the Palacio Municipal stands.
6809. Huerta, Pedro Jos. Nuestro reloj pblico, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 31:43
(dic. 1981), 37-49.
A meticulous study of the Clock Tower on the Malecn. The clock is one of the few
surviving artifacts from the colonial period.
6810. Las Jornadas de noviembre de 1922. [Guayaquil]: Edit. Rafael Perugachi, 1982. 41 p.
6811. Lang, Norris G. Political Instability: the Banking Elite of Coastal Ecuador,
Contemporary Latin A merica: a Selection of Papers Presented at the T hird A nnual Conference on
Latin A merica, edited by Harvey L. Johnson (Houston: Office of International Affairs,
University of Houston, 1969), p. 17-23.
That the coastal oligarchy or banking plutocracy of the port city enjoy considerable
political as well as economic power is true, but that they have controlled national politics and
policies to the extent that Lang postulated in this study may not be.
6812. Laviana Cuetos, Mara Luisa. Una descripcin indita de Guayaquil, Temas
americanistas, 1 (1982), 25-28.
Comments upon and published an anonymous, undated Relacin de Guayaquil. This
previously unknown account appears to have been written by a visiting merchant in the early
1770s.
6813. Laviana Cuetos, Mara Luisa. La maestranza del astillero de Guayaquil en el siglo
XVIII, Temas americanistas, 4 (1984), 26-32.
A pioneering essay on salaries, numbers, and ethnic composition of shipwrights and caulkers
in the 1700s. Includes new data on the concurrent decline in shipbuilding.
6814. Laviana Cuetos, Mara Luisa. Las ordenanzas municipales de Guayaquil, 1590,
A nuario de estudios americanos, 40 (1983), 39-69.
Published the heretofore unknown municipal ordinances of 1593. Includes a study of their
differences from and similarities to ordinances of other colonial cities and towns. Also
published in: Revista del A rchivo Histrico del Guayas, 10:19 (junio 1981), 59-86.
6815. Lee T., Pablo; and Florencio Compte Guerrero. Guayaquil, lectura histrica de la
ciudad. Guayaquil: Universidad Catlica de Santiago de Guayaquil, 1993. 97 p.
See also item 3885.
6816. Len Borja, Dora. Los alcaldes ordinarios de Guayaquil y Puerto Viejo en el siglo
XVI, A nuario histrico jurdico ecuatoriano, 6 (1981), 531-561.
6817. Len Borja, Dora. Guayaquil y la Real Armada de la Mar del Sur, 1579-1624,
Memoria del III Congreso Venezolano de Historia ... (Caracas: Academia Nacional de la Historia,
1979), vol. 1, p. 239-298.
On the construction of ships for the Armada del Mar del Sur at Guayaquil and Pun during
the early colonial period. Based on research in Spanish archives, especially the AGI.
6818. Len Borja, Dora. Los indios balseros como factor en el desarrollo del puerto de
Guayaquil, Estudios sobre poltica indigenista espaola en A mrica (Valladolid: Universidad de
Valladolid, Seminario de Historia de Amrica, 1976), vol. 2, p. 281-311.
A path breaking study of economic, especially maritime, activities of Indian pueblos of the
littoral proper during the conquest and early colonial periods. Demonstrates that several
parcialidades (apparently the postconquest equivalent of ayllus), if not entire pueblos, drew their
livelihood from the sea, not just as fishers but also as traders and freighters. A significant
addition to the ethnohistory and to the economic history of Guayaquil and its district.
6819. Len Borja, Dora. Reinterpretacin de las fuentes relativas a la fundacin de
Guayaquil, Revista de Indias, 24:97/98 (jul./dic. 1964), 383-410.
Whether or not one agrees with Len Borja as to the original and subsequent locations of the
port city before it came to rest definitively in 1547, this article will repay careful reading for the
wealth of documented data it contains on the early history of Guayaquil and the central-south
coast. Reprinted in: Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 49:107 (ene./jun. 1966), 17-40.
6820. Len Borja, Dora; and Adm Szszdi. Las autoridades de la ciudad de Santiago:
Santiago de Guayaquil, 1534-1616, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 24:41 (1974), 5-12.
6821. Len Borja, Dora; and Adm Szszdi. El comercio del cacao de Guayaquil, Revista
de historia de A mrica, 57/58 (ene./dic. 1964), 1-50.
Yet another of the authors pioneering study. Supplemented but not superseded by Hamerlys
study (item 6804) inasmuch as the former drew largely on Spanish sources whereas the latter
used local materials.
6822. El Libro de matrculas de comerciantes, 1836-1837, [transcrito con una
introduccin] por Michael T. Hamerly, Revista del A rchivo Histrico del Guayas, 3:6 (dic. 1974),
113-124.
6823. Lutz, Thomas McKinley. Self-Help Neighborhood Organizations, Political
Socialization and the Developing Political Orientations of Urban Squatters in Latin America:
Contrasting Patterns from Case Studies in Panama City, Guayaquil, and Lima. 1970. xiv, 472
leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 1970.
6824. Martnez Jaime, Patricio. Guayaquil, noviembre de 1922: poltica oligrquica e
insurreccin popular. Quito: CEDIS, Centro de Estudios y Difusin Social, 1988. 149 p.
6825. Martz, John D. The Regionalist Expression of Populism: Guayaquil and the CFP,
1948-1960, Journal of Interamerican Studies and World A ffairs, 22:3 (Aug. 1980), 289-314.
6826. Matamoros Jara, Carlos. Las calles de Guayaquil, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones
Histricas, 5:7 (1937), 120-243.
A history of the streets of the city.
6827. Menendez-Carrin, Amparo. Mecanismo de articulacin electoral en las barriadas de
Lima y Guayaquil, 1978-1985: estudio comparativo de modalidades y contenidos: proyecto de
investigacin. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador, 1986. 23 p.
6828. El Mercado del suelo urbano y barrios populares en Guayaquil, Milton Rojas M. [et al.], 1
ed. Guayaquil: Corporacin de Estudios Regionales; Quito: Ciudad Centro de Investigaciones;
Ottowa: International Development Research Centre, 1989. 247 p.
6829. Microempresa manufacturera, sector informal urbano y subempleo en Guayaquil, direccin
de Luis W. Rosero Mallea. Guayaquil: Universidad Catlica de Santiago de Guayaquil, 1989.
220 p.
6830. Milln y Pinto, Juan. Noticias interesantes de Guayaquil, Mercurio peruano, 12:603
(sept./dic. 1794), 165-172.
A late-eighteenth-century account.
6831. Miras, Calude de; and Roberto Roggiero. El sector informal urbano bajo sospecha, 1 ed.
Quito: ILDIS; CEDIME, 1992. 139 p. (Guayaquil futuro; 3)
6832. Moore, Richard J. Assimilation and Political Participation among the Urban Poor
in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1977. xviii, 453 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at
Austin.
6833. Moyano, Bolvar. Fundacin de Guayaquil y su proyeccin en el proceso histrico
del Ecuador, Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 64 (abr./jun. 1986), 121-139.
6834. Muoz Vicua, Elas. El 15 de noviembre de 1922: su importancia histrica y sus
proyecciones, 3 ed. Guayaquil: Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas de la Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1983. 133 p.
6835. Navas V., Jos Buenaventura. Evolucin social del obrero en Guayaquil (1845-1920):
obra histrica. Guayaquil: Impr. Guayaquil, 1920. 163 p.
6836. Noboa, Carlos Manuel. A puntes histricos sobre el Cuartel Central del Cuerpo de
Bomberos de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Empresa Periodstica Prensa Ecuatoriana, 1928. 164 p.
6837. Noboa Icaza, Luis. El monumento a Jos Joaqun de Olmedo en Guayaquil, Revista
del A rchivo Histrico del Guayas, 8:15 (jun. 1979), 5-31.
Demonstrates that although the well known statute of Olmedo does not bear the likeness of
the Bard of Junn, neither does it resemble Lord Byron as has sometimes been claimed.
6838. Olaya Yangual, Nelson. La crisis de la basura en Guayaquil, 1 ed. Quito: ILDIS, 1991.
50 p. (Guayaquil futuro; 2).
6839. Ortiz M., Jos M. Guayaquil: historia y futuro. Guayaquil: Fondo de Desarrollo
Urbano de Guayaquil; Fundacin Vicente Rocafuerte; Fundacin Hanns Seidel, 1991. 155 p.
6840. El Otro Guayaquil: servicios sociales del suburbio, intimidades y perspectivas, Accin
Internacional Tcnica, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Junta Cvica de Guayaquil, 1976. xix, 155 p.
6841. Para la historia: el 15 de noviembre de 1922. Guayaquil: El Ideal, 1922. 28 p.
6842. Prez Concha, Jorge. Contribucin a la historia de mi ciudad, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 5:7 (1937), 300-311.
Regarding the events leading up to and culminating in the invasion and occupation of
Guayaquil by the Armed Forces of Peru in 1859.
6843. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. Administracin, rganos y magistrados de justicia de
Guayaquil a travs del siglo XVIII, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 18:34/35 (1968), 31-74.
6844. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. Los alguaciles mayores de Guayaquil, Cuadernos de historia
y arqueologa, 11/12:28/29 (1962-1963), 79-84.
A chronological account, containing some useful data. Also published in: Boletn de la
A cademia N acional de Historia, 50:110 (jul./dic. 1967), 214-219.
6845. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. Anecdotario de los ltimos dias coloniales, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 17:33 (1967), 221-236.
6846. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. Dos obras, un destino: el progreso de Guayaquil, ao de
1785, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 51:112 (jul./dic. 1968), 240-254.
Regarding the fortification of San Carlos and the origins of the Barrio del Astillero. Consists
mostly of primary sources.
6847. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. Efemrides guayaquileas, Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 31:44 (ene. 1982), 17-47.
A useful calendar of significant events in the history of the port city.
6848. Prez Pimentel, Rodolfo. N uestro Guayaquil antiguo. Guayaquil: Consejo Provincial
de Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador: Edit. Alfa, 1986. 317 p.
Primarily a collection of anecdotes, chronicles, legends, and traditions of the colonial period
and the nineteenth century. Complemented by coeval illustrations, unfortunately poorly
reproduced.
6849. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Donde estuvo Amay?, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa,
14/16:30/32 (1964/1966), 109-111.
Pimocha according to Pimentel Carbo; Samborondn according to Buchwald (see item
6735).
6850. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Una famosa excomunin, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa,
4:10/11 (ago.1954), 181-193.
An anecdotal account of the excommunication of Pedro Pablo Carbo, a local priest.
6851. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. El gobernador de Guayaquil, don Jos Pascual de Vivero,
Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 2 poca, 7:9 (dic. 1969/feb. 1970), 21-28.
6852. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Ms altos que ellos, los rboles: (aspectos de la vida colonial
en Guayaquil del siglo XVI), Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 6:16/18 (dic. 1956), 59-73.
A well documented study of the early years of shipbuilding in the port city.
6853. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Nuestro primer barco a vapor: (6 de agosto de 1.841),
Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 3:7/8 (ago. 1953), 113-117.
A snapshot of the city the day the Guayas was launched.
6854. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Obras civiles y militares de Guayaquil en el ltimo tercio del
siglo dieciocho, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 8:22/24 (dic. 1958), 110-115.
See also the accompanying Plano de la plaza del mercado de Guayaquil de 1785, between
pp. 116 and 117.
6855. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. Poco y mucho sobre la fundacin de Guayaquil. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1988. 39 p.
6856. Pimentel Carbo, Julio. La primera noche de diciembre de 1867, Cuadernos de
historia y arqueologa, 2:6 (dic. 1952), 227-230.
A glimpse of the city as of Dec. 1, 1867.
6857. Pineo, Ronn F. The Economic and Social Transformation of Guayaquil, Ecuador,
1870-1925. 1987. xiv, 403 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California at Irvine.
6858. Pineo, Ronn F. Misery and Death in the Pearl of the Pacific: Health Care in
Guayaquil, Ecuador, 1870-1925, Hispanic A merican Historical Review, 70:4 (Nov. 1990), 609637.
See also: Robert H. Jackson, The Treatment or Mistreatment of Disease?: Comments on
Ronn Pineos Misery and Death in the Pearl of the Pacific: Health Care in Guayaquil, Ecuador,
1870-1925, Hispanic A merican Historical Review, 71:2 (May 1991), 365-368; and Pineos
Response to Robert Jackson, ibid., 369-373.
6859. Pineo, Ronn F. Reinterpreting Labor Militancy: The Collapse of the Cacao
Economy and the General Strike of 1922 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Hispanic A merican Historical
Review, 68:4 (Nov. 1988), 707-736.
A generally sound analysis and interpretation of the Nov. 1922 strike. Pineos handling of
the yet to be resolved issue of approximately how many were massacred by the military,
however, skirts the issue. Also published in Spanish as: Una reinterpretacin de la agresividad
obrera: el derrumbe del cacao y la huelga general de Guayaquil en 1922, Revista ecuatoriana de
historia econmica, 4:8 (1990), 99-134.
6860. Pineo, Ronn F. Social and Economic Reform in Ecuador: Life and Work in Guayaquil.
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. xviii, 227 p.
Based on his doctoral dissertation (item 6857). An important work in that Pineo adds
substantially to our knowledge of the demographic and economic history of the port city for the
years 1870-1925, but somewhat disappointing inasmuch as Pineo appears to be unaware of some
of the relevant literature (including such basic works as Ortiz Crespos La incorporacin del
Ecuador al mercado mundial [item 2143] and Quintero and Silvas Ecuador, una nacin en ciernes
[item 1967] and of such critical sources as the censuses of 1861 and 1871, almost all of the
original returns of both of which have survived. Also Pineos discussion of social structure and
change is less than ideal, but in fairness to him, it must be added that he was laboring in the
dark for the most part. Also he is not responsible for the printerss butchered presentation of his
work.
6861. Pino Roca, J. Gabriel. Contribucion para la historia de Guayaquil. Guayaquil. Impr.
Gutenberg, 1909. 50 p.
Published with an introduction the Representacin del Procurador General Juan de Robles
Alfonzo (18 mar. 1756), an important statement of the rights and privileges of the city under
the crown. Reprinted in: Leyendas, tradiciones y pginas de historia ... (item 6861), vol. 2, p. 6384.
6862. Pino Roca, J. Gabriel. Leyendas, tradiciones y pginas de historia de Guayaquil, 3 ed.
Guayaquil: Junta Cvica de Guayaquil, 1973. 2 v.
Reprint; originally published: Guayaquil: Edit. Jouvin,1930. 414 p. An important
compilation of historical fiction and studies, the latter of which fortunately are clearly
differentiated from the former.
6863. Pino Roca, J. Gabriel. Los seores del cabildo, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa,
5:13-14 (ago. 1955), 69-82.
6864. Pinoargote Cevallos, Alfredo. El monumento del poder, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo,
1987. 120 p.
A journalistic account of the Via Perimetral, its planning, construction, and impact on the
flow of traffic and growth of the city.
6865. Puig Vilazar, Carlos. Sacrificio de un pueblo: 15 de noviembre de 1922. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1983. 88 p.
6866. Real decreto de Fernando VII, en que se concede al Cabildo de Guayaquil el ttulo de
excelencia entera y a los capitulares el de seora, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 6:16/18
(dic. 1956), 142-144.
Issued 26 June 1810.
6867. Reid, William Alfred. Guayaquil, Ecuadors Chief Port. Washington, D.C.: Pan
American Union, 1931. 16 p.
6868. Reid, William Alfred. T he N ew Guayaquil. Washington, D.C.: Pan American
Union, 1925. 13 p.
An account of post-yellow fever Guayaquil. Updated by item 6866.
6869. Reig Satorres, Jos. Comentario a las A ctas del Cabildo de Guayaquil (1635-1639),
Museo Histrico, 49 (oct./dic. 1970), 125-163.
6870. Resea histrica de la inauguracin de la estatua de Olmedo en Guayaquil, el 9 de octubre
de 1892, Pedro Carbo [et al.]. Guayaquil: Impr. de El Tiempo, 1893. 109 p.
6871. Robles y Chambers, Pedro. Estudio sobre el origen del escudo de armas colonial de la
ciudad de Santiago de Guayaquil, Boletn del Centro de Investigaciones Histricas, 9:21/22 (1952),
108-134.
Also published as a separate: Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas,
1952. 38 p.
6872. Rojas, Guadalupe. El microcomercio en Guayaquil. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano
de Investigaciones Sociales; Guayaquil: Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas y Polticas de la
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1986. 36 p.
6873. Rojas M., Milton; and Gaitn Villavicencio. El proceso urbano de Guayaquil, 18701980. Quito: ILDIS; Guayaquil: Corporacin de Estudios Regionales-Guayaquil, 1988. 254 p.
6874. Rolando, Carlos A. Historia de la Sociedad Filantrpica del Guayas. Guayaquil: Tip. de
la Soc. Filantrpica, 1949. 298 p.
6875. Salmen, Lawrence F. Listen to the People: Participant-Observer Evaluation of
Development Projects. New York: Published for the World Bank by Oxford University Press,
1987. x, 149 p.
A comparative study of development projects in Guayaquil, Ecuador and La Paz, Bolivia.
6876. Samaniego, Augusto. El proceso de concentracin urbana en Guayaquil y Quito en
el desarrollo capitalista agroexportador e inicios de un proceso de industrializacin, Revista del
Instituto de Investigaciones de Ciencias T cnicas (Cuenca), 7 (may. 1985), 5-35.
6877. Snchez Barn, Ricardo. Historia del aporte patritico de Guayaquil a la defensa nacional
en el conflicto blico con el Per, en el ao 1941-1942: estudio histrico de la Junta Guayaquilea de
Defensa N acional. Guayaquil: Edit. Universidad de Guayaquil, 1994. 158 p.
The authors doctoral thesis: 1993. Universidad de Guayaquil.
6878. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Las apostillas de Rodrigo de Triana sobre Guayaquil,
Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 5:15 (dic. 1955), 104-116.
Regarding the much debated foundation of Guayaquil.
6879. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Biognesis de Santiago de Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1947. xxvii, 266 p.
On the foundation and early history of the city.
6880. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Las fundaciones de Guayaquil: breves apostillas al libro del seor
Miguel A spiazu C. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1955. 108 p.
Disagrees with Aspiazu (item 6728) that Santiago de Guayaquil was originally founded as
Santiago de Quito.
6881. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Guayaquil, la nueva. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil,
1946. 42 p.
A well researched study of the relocation of Guayaquil from ciudad vieja or the Cerro Santa
Ana area to ciudad nueva or what is now the core area of what has now become the old
downtown, following the pirate attack of 1687 and the fire of 1692. See also item 6882.
6882. Silva, Rafael Euclides. El progreso de Guayaquil a travs de la accin creadora de sus
cabildos, Cuadernos de historia y arqueologa, 6:16/18 (dic. 1956), 99-106.
Outlines the contributions of the municipality to the betterment of the port city through
public works from independence through the first half of the twentieth century.
6883. Silva, Rafael Euclides. Vietas de antao: Guayaquil, la nueva, Boletn del Centro de
Investigaciones Histricas, 7:12/17 (1947), 382-401.
On the relocation of Guayaquil from the estuary and hill confined area in and around the
Church and Convent of Santo Domingo to the Sabaneta south of the estuaries in the late
seventeenth century.
6884. Szszdi, Adm; and Dora Len Borja. Los recursos y el desarrollo econmico de
Guayaquil, 1535-1605, Revista de la Universidad Complutense (Madrid), 28:117 (ene. 1979),
475-488.
An excellent review of Guayaquil's early emergence as a major port and as a commercial and
manufacturing center. Emphasizes importance of the port citys exploitation of local and
regional resources, including human (e.g., indios balseros). Based on considerable original
research, mostly in Spanish archives. See also item 6817.
6885. Szszdi, Adm; and Dora Len Borja. Santiago de Quito-Santiago de Guayaquil,
1534-1536, Revista de Indias, 139/142 (ene./dic. 1975), 17-81.
Argues a la Aspiazu (see item 6728) that Santiago de Quito as founded by Diego de Almagro
on 15 Aug. 1534 at the Indian Riobamba was one and same city as Santiago de la Nueva
Castilla (i.e. de Guayaquil) as refounded by Francisco de Orellana towards end of 1537.
6886. Townsend, Camila D. En busca de la libertad: los esfuerzos de los esclavos
guayaquileos por garantizar su independencia despus de la independencia, Procesos: revista
ecuatoriana de historia, 4 (I sem. 1993), 73-85.
An essay on the efforts of slaves in the port city to obtain and to retain their freedom during
the Gran Colombian and early national periods. Based on original research in the Archivo
Histrico del Guayas and other repositories of Guayaquil. See also Townsends 1995 Rutgers
University Ph.D. thesis, Doing a Days Business in a New Nation: A Comparative Study of
Daily Economic Activity in Two Early Republican Port Towns, Guayaquil, Ecuador, and
Baltimore, Maryland, 1820-1835. xiii, 417 leaves. Subsequently revised and published as:
Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican N orth and South A merica :
Guayaquil, Ecuador, and Baltimore, Maryland. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. xv, [9],
320 p.
6887. Vargas, Jos Mara. La fundacin definitiva de Guayaquil. Quito: Comisin Nacional
Permanente de Conmemoraciones Cvicas, 1987. 20 p.
Perpetuates the myth that Francisco de Orellana founded Guayaquil once and for all in 1537
on the site of Cerro Verde.
6888. Velasco, Paul; and Gaitn Villavicencio. Perfiles tecnolgicos y pequea produccin
urbana, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Corporacin de Estudios Regionales-Guayaquil; Fundacin
Interamericana, 1989. 198 p.
A study of handicraft industries in Guayaquil and Babahoyo.
6889. Villacrs M., Jorge W. El ataque y bloqueo de Guayaquil por la expedicin naval del
General Flores, en 1852, segn la versin de P. Pointel, oficial de la marina francesa, Revista,
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1:3 (abr./jun. 1964), 60-70.
6890. Villavicencio, Gaitn. Centralidad urbana y asentamientos populares en
Guayaquil, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 897-908.
6891. Villavicencio, Gaitn. Las polticas urbanas y regionales del Estado ecuatoriano en
el desarrollo de Guayaquil, Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 53/54 (jul./dic. 1983), 81
6892. Wood, Henry. General Report on the Trade of Guayaquil, British Consular Reports
on the Trade and Politics of Latin A merica, 1824-1826 , edited by R.A. Humphreys (London:
Royal Historical Society, 1940), p. 226-251.
Also published in Spanish as: El comercio guayaquileo en 1826: informe del consul
britnico Henry Wood a George Canning, con nota introductoria de Enrique Ayala Mora,
Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 4:7 (1990), 249-279.
IBARRA
6893. Cical, Mario. La villa de San Miguel de Ibarra, Quitumbe, 3:3 (1973), 115-131.
From the previously little known Descrizione istorio-fisica della provincia del Quito (1771), not
published in its entirety until 1994 (see item 7248). Cical was one of the Jesuit expulsos.
6894. Ibarra, ayer y hoy, [edicin de] Jos M. Leoro. Quito: Edit. Chimborazo, 1929. 119 p.
Profusely illustrated.
6895. Ibarra (Ecuador). Cabildo. [Libros de cabildos de San Miguel de Ibarra]. Quito: Tall.
Tip. Municipales, 1937-Ibarra: Municipalidad de Ibarra, 1944. 2 v.
Apparently only the first two books of the acts of the town council of Ibarra have been
published, at least, as of July 1977. Both were transcribed by Jorge A. Garcs G. Their
particulars are:
6895a. Ibarra (Ecuador). Cabildo. Libro primero de cabildos de la villa de San Miguel de
Ibarra, 1606-1617, descifrado por Jorge A. Garcs G. Quito: Tall. Tip. Municipales, 1937.
xviii, 609 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 15).
6895b. Ibarra (Ecuador). Cabildo. Libro segundo de cabildos de la villa de San Miguel de
Ibarra, 1617-1635, versin de Jorge A. Garcs G. Ibarra: Municipalidad de Ibarra, 1944. xi,
628 p.
6896. Leyendas y tradiciones de Ibarra. Ibarra: Centro de Ediciones Culturales de Imbabura,
1988. 125 p.
6897. Madera, Luis F. Escudo de armas de la ciudad de Ibarra, A RN A HIS, 13:19 (mar.
1973), 26-33.
6898. Madera, Luis F. Ibarra. Ibarra: Tip. El Comercio, 1926. 17 p.
See also Maderas N otas epigrficas de Ibarra [Ibarra?: s.n.], 1922. 30 p.
6899. Madera, Luis F. Ibarra en 1923: album de vistas de la ciudad y sus cercanas. Ibarra: Tip.
El Comercio, [1923?]. 5, [86] p. Chiefly ill.
6900. Madera, Luis F. Ibarra y el terremoto de 1868. Ibarra: Tip. El Comercio, 1918. 19 p.
6901. Nicols Hidalgo, Jos. Diez tradiciones ibarrenas. Ibarra: [s.n.], 1960. 72 p.
6902. Pinea, Eliana. Estudio de Ibarra: las relaciones campo-ciudad, Revista geogrfica
(Mxico), 84 (1976), 45-75.
6903. Tern, Emilio Mara. Exposicin del Coronel Tern sobre los sucesos de Ibarra. Quito:
La Novedad, 1900. 51 p.
6904. Tobar Suba, Cristbal. Monografa de Ibarra, 3 ed. San Miguel de Ibarra: Centro de
Ediciones Culturales de Imbabura, 1985. 272 p.
Reprint. Originally published: Quito: Prensa Catlica, 1950. A history of the city.
LATACU N GA
See also C. Samuel Povedas Latacunga en 1934: album de vistas de la ciudad. [Quito]: Tip.
Fernndez, 1934. 96 p.
6905. Caizares, Daniel Alberto. Ciudad hospitalaria: homenaje a Latacunga. Cuenca: Tip.
Sarmiento, 1927. 60 p.
6906. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo; and Piedad Peaherrera de Costales. Poblamiento y
fundacin de Latacunga: un corregidor progresista, don Baltazar Carriedo y A rce (El Mazorra).
Latacunga: Impr. Andradecar, 1984. 106 p.
6907. Latacunga ante los cuatro ltimos siglos de historia, 1 ed. Quito: Sociedad Amigos de la
Genealoga, 1993. 332 p. (Coleccin Medio milenio; v. 13).
6908. Ziga, Neptal. Significacin de Latacunga en la historia del Ecuador y de A mrica.
Quito: Instituto Geogrfico Militar, 1982. 2 v.
A well researched, solidly documented history of Latacunga from its foundation as a Spanish
town through the early 1800s.
LOJA
OTAVALO
6923. San Flix, Alvaro. Testamentos y mortuorias registrados en el asiento de San Luis de
Otavalo en los siglos XVI y XVII, Sarance, 18 (oct. 1993), 145-199.
Analyzes wills and related documents from the early colonial period. Emphasizes religious
beliefs and customs, patterns of inheritance, funeral rites and ceremonies, and bequests.
6924. Ubida Rubio, Luis Enrique. La ereccin de Otavalo en categora de villa, Museo
Histrico, 7:21 (1955), 104-110.
6925. Valdospinos Rubio, Marcelo. Puesto de guardia. Otavalo: Edit. Gallocapitn, 1982.
207 p.
An anthology of newspaper articles by author on Otavalo in the 1960s, 1970s, and early
1980s. Unfortunately, the articles are not dated.
QU ITO
6926. Achig A., Lucas S. La estructura social y las polticas de ocupacin del suelo en Quito.
Quito: Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD, 1980. 32 p.
6927. Achig A., Lucas S. El proceso urbano de Quito: (ensayo de interpretacin), Quito:
Centro de Investigaciones CIUDAD, 1983. 107 p.
6928. Albornoz, Miguel. Quito, proyeccin histrica y poltica. Quito: Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores, 1983. 32 p.
6929. Andrade Coello, Alejandro. Del Quito antiguo. Quito: Impr. Ecuador, 1935. 204 p.
6930. Andrade Marn, Luciano. Geografa e historia de la ciudad de Quito. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1966. 61 p. (Cuadernos patria y cultura; no. 1).
Estos escritos fueron primero publicados en la edicin extraordinario del diario El Da de
Quito, del 6 de diciembre de 1934 ... y despus fueron reproducidos en el libro Quito a travs de
los siglos, editado por Eliecer Enrquez, en 1938.
6931. Andrien, Kenneth J. Economic Crisis, Taxes and the Quito Insurrection of 1765,
Past & Present, 129 (Nov. 1990), 104-131.
Maintains that the steady erosion of the . . . economy from the late seventeenth century,
established the essential context for the tax rebellion of 1765.
6932. La A poteosis de Quito, 26 de agosto de 1954. Quito: Impr. Municipal, [1954?]. 121 p.
6933. Arias, Augusto. Pginas de Quito. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1939. 125 p.
Contents: El evocador; Perfil de Quito; Mujeres de Quito; Amores de Huaynacapac;
San Francisco; Ciudad sin cada; Evocacin transente; Nuestros poetas y el gozo;
Nuestros poetas y el viaje; El estampista desconocido; Psicologa del quiteo; Antao y
hoy.
6934. Ascaray, Juan. Relacin del tiempo en que se descubri esta ciudad de Quito, del ao en
que se erigi en obispado, del que se fund esta Santa Iglesia Catedral, los conventos de los religiosos, y
religiosas, y colegios, y el Tribunal de esta A udiencia, y Chancillera Real ... Quito: Impr. de
Mauricio de los Reyes, 1794. 1 v. (not paginated).
The oldest known chronicle and therefore apparently the first history of the city of Quito.
Republished by Federico Gonzlez Surez in: Boletn eclesistico (Quito), 16:14 (1909), 528-542;
and reprinted as: Relacin histrica, Mensaje de la Biblioteca N acional, poca 3, 4/5 (dic.
1936/ene. 1937), 106-121.
6935. A tlas del distrito metropolitano: plan distrito metropolitano. Quito: Municipio de Quito,
Direccin de Planificacin, 1992. 165 p. Chiefly plans.
6936. Barrera, Isaac J. Quito colonial: siglo XVIII, comienzos del siglo XIX, 2 ed. Puebla,
Mxico: Cajica, 1971. 497 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1922. 163 p. (Memorias de la
Academia Nacional de Historia; vol. I)
6937. Barrera, Isaac J. Quito en la historia, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia,
50:109 (ene./jun. 1967), 39-56; 51:111 (ene./jun. 1968), 104-118.
Maintains that El Ecuador se ha formado histricamente, en torno a la ciudad de Quito, su
capital ...
6938. Barriga Lpez, Franklin. Quito en el tiempo. Quito: Editora Nacional, 1980. 157 p.
6939. Bayle, Constantino. La vida social en la colonia: segn los libros del Cabildo de
Quito, A RN A HIS, 11:17 (10 ago. 1968), 29-40.
6940. Benavides Sols, Jorge. Orgenes de la ciudad en el Ecuador: el caso de Quito,
Miscelnea histrica ecuatoriana, 2:2 (1989), 126-137.
Maintains that Quito as a city or urban conglomerate per se dates from Incan times and not
before.
6941. Benavides Sols, Jorge. Quito, sntesis de una realidad urbana en los Andes, Cultura,
3:7 (mayo/ago. 1980), 180-195.
6942. Berger, Marguerite Susan. Gender Differences in the Determinants of Earnings in
the Informal Sector: A Case Study of Microenterprise Borrowers in Quito, Ecuador. 1989. xii,
319 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--American University.
6943. Bock, Marie Sophie. Quito, Guayaquil: identificacin arquitectural y evolucin socioeconmica en el Ecuador (1850-1987). Lima: IFEA; Guayaquil: Corporacin de Estudios
Regionales-Guayaquil, 1988. 257 p.
6944. Borchart de Moreno, Christiana. La imbecilidad del sexo: pulperas y mercaderas
quiteas a fines del siglo XVIII, Historia de la mujer y la familia, editor general: Jorge Nez
Snchez (Quito: Editora Nacional, 1991), p. 17-135.
6975. Espinoza C., Malva. El horizonte poltico popular: diagnstico, demandas, participacin y
opciones polticas en un barrio popular de Quito, 1983. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericano de
Ciencias Sociales, 1984. 231 p.
6976. Estupin-Freile, Tamara. Testamento de don Francisco Atagualpa, Miscelnea
histrica ecuatoriana, 1:1 (1988), 8-67.
Publishes with explanatory notes last will and testament of Francisco Topatauchi, the most
important of Atahualpas sons in Quito. Includes an appendix on urban and rural properties of
the auqui.
6977. Expediente de fundacin del Hospicio de Quito Jess, Mara y Jos, 1782-1808,
versin de Gustavo Chiriboga C.; prlogo de Hugo Moncayo, Museo Histrico, 16:47 (ene./jul.
1970), i-x, 1-169.
A major source on the acquisition of the former Jesuit noviciate and its conversion into an
hospicio, lazareto, and orphanage, and originally also a poor house.
6978. Farrell, Gilda. Los trabajadores autnomos: el caso de los pequeos comerciantes de Quito.
Santiago de Chile: ILDIS; Quito: IIE-PUCE, 1983. 64 p.
6979. Fernndez, Mara Augusta. Quito, crecimiento y dinmica de una ciudad andina,
Revista geogrfica (Mxico), 110 (jul./dic. 1989), 121-164.
6980. Fine, Kathleen Sue. Cotocollao: ideologa, historia y accin en un barrio de Quito, 1 ed.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 278 p.
An interdisciplinary study of social organization and action in what has become a suburb of
the capital.
6981. Flores y Caamao, Alfredo. En el centenario de la fundacin de la ciudad de Quito.
Quito: Edit. Gutenberg, 1934. 25 p.
6982. Flores y Caamao, Alfredo. Un escudo de armas de la ciudad de Quito: con una breve
explicacin histrica. Quito: Tall. Municipales, 1923. 8 p.
6983. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. A l margen de la historia: leyendas de pcaros, frailes y
caballeros, 2 ed. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1960. 193 p.
Reprint; originally published: Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1924. vii, 291 p. The picaresque side
of the colonial period. Although fictionalized a la Ricardo Palma, Gangotena y Jijn based his
anecdotes on actual events and persons. Furthermore, he was well steeped in the sources.
6984. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Fiestas que se celebran en Quito a fines del siglo
18, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 7:19 (sept./oct. 1923), 263-269.
6985. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Quito en 1825, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de
Historia, 27:69 (ene./jun. 1947), 140-144.
6986. Garcs, Vctor Gabriel. Quito antiguo: plaza grande y calle real, Museo Histrico,
3:8 (marzo 1951), 104-115.
6987. Garca, Jorge. Las organizaciones barriales de Quito. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano
de Investigaciones Sociales, 1985. 131 p.
6988. Godard, Henry Ren. Anlisis comparado de los centros y de los lugares de
centralidad en Quito y Guayaquil, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 889-895.
6989. Godard, Henry Ren. Gestin del espacio urbano y sector privado: el caso de la
banca quitea, 1950-1987, Bulletin de lInstitut franais dtudes andines, 17:1 (1988), 103-122.
6990. Godard, Henry Ren. Quito, Guayaquil: evolucin y consolidacin en ocho barrios
populares, 1 ed. Quito: CIUDAD, Centro de Investigaciones; Lima: Instituto Franes de
Estudios Andinos, 1988. 205, xlvii p. (Coleccin Travaux del IFEA; t. no. 44).
6991. Gmez E., Nelson. El area metropolitana de Quito: estudio de geografa urbana. Quito:
Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, Seccin Nacional del Ecuador, 1977. 99 p.
6992. Gmez E., Nelson. Las originalidades del crecimiento de Quito, Cultura, 8:24c
(ene./abr. 1986), 879-888.
6993. Gmez E., Nelson. Pasado y presente de la ciudad de Quito, 1a ed. Quito: I. Municipio
Metropolitano de Quito, 1995. 175 p.
6994. Gmez E., Nelson. Quito y su desarrollo urbano. Quito: Edit. Camino, [1980?]. 180 p.
6995. La Guerra de los cuatro reales: testimonio colectivo del pueblo de Quito en las luchas de abril
1978, [recopilacin y ed., Alejandro Santilln]. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1979. 120 p.
6996. Gua de Quito. Madrid: Unin de Ciudades Capitales Iberoamericanas: Sociedad
Estatal para la Ejecucin de Programas del Quinto Centenario, 1990. 125 p.
Superficial in coverage. Apparently intended for the Spanish-speaking jet set.
6997. Gutirrez, Alberto. Las capitales de la Gran Colombia. Paris: Librera de la Vda. de Ch.
Bouret, 1914. 336 p.
6998. Guzmn Iturra, Ignacio. La senda: cartas de amor de un peregrino. [Santiago de Chile]:
Unicornio, 1993. 364 p.
Correspondence of a Chilean architect in which he describes Quito.
6999. Hardoy, Jorge E.; and Mario R. dos Santos. El centro histrico de Quito: introduccin al
problema de su preservacin y desarrollo. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Lima: Proyecto
Regional de Patrimonio Cultural y Desarrollo, 1984. 131 p.
A technical report on the preservation of the casco colonial and recommendations for
regulating future growth of the capital.
7000. Herrera, Pablo. A puntes para la historia de Quito. Quito: Impr. de Juan Campuzano,
1874. 84 p.
Reprinted in: Quito a travs de los siglos, t. 2, 2 pte., p. 1-113 (item 7072). Herrera was a
serious researcher. Therefore his chronicles, for that is what this and item 7001 are, tend to be
highly factual and generally reliable.
7001. Herrera, Pablo; and Alcides Enrquez. A puntes cronolgicos de las obras y trabajos del
Cabildo y Municipalidad de Quito. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1916-1925. 2 v.
Vol. 1 authored by Herrera; vol. 2 by Enrquez.
7002. Informacin de oficio de los servicios y partes de Cristbal Sanguino [1602],
A RN A HIS, 11:17 (10 ago. 1968), 149-158.
Regarding Sanguinos rle in the 1592-1593 Revolucin de las Alcabalas.
7003. Instituto Geogrfico Militar (Ecuador). A tlas infogrfico de Quito: socio-dinmica del
espacio y poltica urbana = A tlas infographique de Quito: socio-dynamique de lespace et politique
urbaine. Quito: Instituto Geogrfico Militar; Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia,
Seccin Nacional del Ecuador; Paris: LInstitut franais de recherche scientifique pour le
dveloppement en coopration, 1992. 1 atlas.
In Spanish and French.
7004. Instrucciones para el rgimen y gobierno de la polica en esta ciudad, Museo
Histrico, 16:48 (ago./sept. 1970), 107-119.
Published the 1765 schedule of watchmen and the 1792 regulation of police. Also published
as Las rondas en los barrios de Quito, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 53:116
(jul./dic. 1970), 361-366.
7005. Jaramillo J., Alfredo. Estructura familiar: estudio sobre los sectores populares de Quito,
Ecuador. Santiago de Chile: Instituto Latinoamericano de Planificacin Econmica, 1972. iv,
115 p.
Also published in: Revista paraguaya de sociologa, 10:28 (sept./dic. 1973), 59-151.
7006. Jerves, Alfonso A. A notaciones al Libro de cabildos, 1575-1576. Quito: [s.n.], 1935.
156 p.
7007. Jerves, Alfonso A. La fundacin de la ciudad de Quito, villa al principio: a la luz de la
documentacin paleogrfica y de la historia: sntesis paleogrfico-histrica escrita con motivo del cuarto
centenario de la fundacin (1534-1934). Quito: Edit. de Santo Domingo, 1933. 282 p.
7008. Jimnez, Adolfo. Gua topogrfica, estadstica, poltica, industrial, mercantil i de domicilios
de la ciudad de Quito: con las efemrides, anales histricos i acontecimientos ms notables hasta el ao
de 1862. Quito: Tip. de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1894. 288 p.
7009. Judde, Gabriel. Bernardo Recio: predicador jesuta en el Ecuador, 1750-1765, testigo
y actor durante una sublevacin popular, 1765, Homenaje a N ol Salomon: ilustracin espaola e
independencia de A mrica, edicin preparada por Alberto Gil Novales (Barcelona: Universidad
Autnoma de Barcelona, 1979), p. 49-68.
An analysis of Recios account of the tax riots of 1765. Complimented by three exceptionally
useful appendices: 1) a chronology of Recios perambulations throughout the Presidency; 2) an
index of the lesser towns and villages visited by Recio; and 3) a list of the missionaries and
clergy (replete with their places and years of birth and death) in Recios account.
7010. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Calles de Quito. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1989.
430 p. (Coleccin Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga; no. 38).
A treasure trove of information on the streets of the capital, especially on their origins and
interesting aspects of their past. Unfortunately, however, in this as in his other works, Jurado
Noboa tends to present data somewhat haphazardly, barely analyzed, and inadequately
interpreted.
7011. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. El chulla quiteo: nacimiento, vida y agona de un prototipo
citadino, 1 ed. Quito: Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga, 1991. 344 p. (S.A.G.; vol. 60).
7012. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Desarrollo histrico y evolucin social de las primeras
casas quiteas y de la Plaza Mayor entre 1534 y 1912, Cultura, 7:20 (sept./dic. 1984), 311-369.
A preview of authors larger work on public squares and the buldings fronting them (item
7013).
7013. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Los indios del comn de Quito durante el primer siglo de
coloniaje: 1534 a 1634, Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 8 (1986), 212240.
A pseudo-prosopographic study of Indians on whom data exists in sixteenth- and earlyseventeenth-century notarial records of the city.
7014. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Plazas y plazuelas de Quito Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1989. 251 p. (Coleccin Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga; no. 39).
A detailed study of plazas and plazuelas and of buildings fronting them from the sixteenth
century through the present. Based on original archival research.
7015. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. El prestamismo en Quito en el perodo 1875-1905, Boletn
de la A cademia N acional de Historia (Quito), 65:139/140 (ene./dic. 1982), 45-64.
7016. Jurado Noboa, Fernando. Las quiteas. Quito: Dinediciones S.A., 1995. 367 p.
On women of and in the capital from the pre-Incan beginnings of the city through the first
half of the twentieth century. Examines women from all walks of life and the several ethnic
groups, not just nuns, paramours, and prostitutes. Rich in vignettes and anecdotes. A good
read, yet given the abundance of mostly novel, mostly archival information contained, one
wishes that this and Jurado Noboas other, also detailed, monographs on his native Quito were
indexed. One also wishes that someone would copy edit his work.
7017. Jurado Noboa, Fernando; Rocio Aguilar; and Vicente Moreno. Casas del Quito viejo.
Quito: Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga, 1992-. <1> v. (Coleccin Medio milenio; v. 6).
Vol. 1 purports to be a history of 50 historic houses from the 1600s through the 1900s, of the
families who lived in them, and of the different functions accommodated by the houses in
question through the centuries, but in reality it is a series of vignettes regarding set houses and
their occupants.
7018. Kingman Garcs, Eduardo. Quito y el siglo naciente, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr.
1986), 871-875.
7019. Klak, Thomas. Recession, the State, and Working Class Shelter: a Comparison of
Quito and Guayaquil, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 83 (1992), 120-137.
Argues that Quito was better able to withstand the recessionary impact of the 1980s because
the capital was cushioned by oil revenues whereas the port city was largely excluded from
government funding.
7020. Landzuri Camacho, Carlos. Estructura y funcionamiento del Cabildo de Quito,
1534-1551, A nuario histrico jurdico ecuatoriano, 6 (1980), 565-591.
7021. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Lugares de Quito de mayor transcendencia histrica, Museo
Histrico, 49 (oct./dic. 1970), 21-30.
A survey of the most important historical sites in the capitol. Also published in: Boletn de
la A cademia N acional de Historia, 52:114 (jul./dic. 1969), 281-285.
7022. Larrea, Carlos Manuel. Quito en la historia ecuatoriana, A mrica (Quito), 9:58
(nov./dic. 1934), 528-545.
Also published in: Gaceta municipal (Quito), 19:79 (oct./dic. 1934), 159-172.
7023. Lavall, Bernard. Quito et la crise de lalcabala (1580-1600). Paris: Editions du Centre
national de la recherche scientifique, 1992. 213 p. (Travaux de lInstitut franais detudes
andines; t. 103).
A detailed, sophisticated, well researched study of the sales tax rebellion of the late sixteenth
century. Places the uprising in its economic and social as well as political context.
Demonstrates that the rebellion was at best an protest, but not an uprising and clearly not a
revolution Together with item 7024, the first truly new and as of July 1997, the most
comprehensive study per se of the protest in question since Gonzlez Suarezs Historia general (t.
3, chap. 5). Also published in Spanish as: Quito y la crisis de la alcabala (1580-1600). Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1997. 227 p. (Biblioteca de historia econmica; vol. 16).
7024. Lavall, Bernard. La rebelin de las alcabalas (Quito, julio de 1592-abril de 1593):
ensayo de interpretacin, Cultura, 9:26 (sept./dic. 1986), 41-94.
Originally published in: Revista de Indias, 44:173 (1984), 141-201. A prelude to Lavalles
larger study (item 7022).
7025. Lesser, Mishy. Conflicto y poder en un barrio popular de Quito, Cultura, 8:24c
(ene./abr. 1986), 921-931.
A preview of authors larger study (item 7026) on the problems of daily life in El Triunfo, one
of the poor neighborhoods of the capital. Covers 1977, the year in which the barrio began to be
formed, through 1983.
7026. Lesser, Mishy. Conflicto y poder en un barrio popular de Quito. Quito: Edit. El Conejo,
1987. 93 p.
7027. Levy, James R. Los artesanos de Quito y la estructura social: 1820-1920, Revista
ciencias sociales (Quito), 4:14 (1982), 23-44.
7028. Libro de cartas escritas por los reyes nuestros seores, sumos pontfices, virreyes y otros
ministros de esta Real A udiencia al Cabildo de Quito, 1589-1714, versin de Gustavo Chiriboga C.
Quito: Archivo Municipal de Quito, 1970. v, 178 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal de
Quito; 34).
7029. El Libro de la ciudad de San Francisco de Quito hasta 1950-51. Quito: Ediciones Cegan,
1951. 1 v. in various pagings.
Contents: Quien es quien; Resea de instituciones; Guas de servicios varios.
7030. Lozano Castro, Alfredo. Quito, ciudad milenaria: forma y smbolo, 1 ed. Quito:
Ediciones Abya-Yala: CIUDAD, Centro de Investigaciones; Madrid: Centro de Investigacin
Urbana y Arquitectura Andina, 1991. 262 p.
Utilizes chronicles and other early colonial period sources to reconstruct the pre-Hispanic
origins and post-conquest development and transformation of the city.
7031. Lucarelli, Francesco; and Elvira Petroncelli. A ntiche capitali del Sud A merica. Napoli:
Guida editori, 1987. 2 v.
7032. Lucena Salmoral, Manuel. La ciudad de Quito hacia mil ochocientos, A nuario de
estudios americanos, 51:1 (1994) 143-164.
Examines the infrastructure and economy of the city and the pastimes of its inhabitants circa
1800.
7033. Luna Tamayo, Milton. Historia y conciencia popular: el artesano en Quito, economa,
organizacin y vida cotidiana, 1890-1930. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional: Tehis, Taller de
Estudios Histricos, 1989. 195 p.
A pioneering study of artisans and guilds in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
7034. Llerena, Jos Alfredo. Escorzo de Quito. Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1960. 16 p.
7035. McFarlane, Anthony. The Rebellion of the Barrios: Urban Insurrection in
Bourbon Quito, Hispanic A merican Historical Review, 69:2 (May 1989), 283-330.
An in-depth reexamination of political and social aspects of the rebellion of 1765.
Reprinted in: Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin A merica, 1765-1910
(Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 1996), p. 17-69. Virtually the same study
under the same title also appeared in: Reform and Insurrection in Bourbon N ew Granada and Peru,
edited by John R. Fisher, Allan J. Kuethe, and Anthony McFarlane (Baton Rouge: Louisiana
State University Press, 1990), p. 197-254.
7036. Mndez de Herrera, Genoveva. El transporte urbano en Quito: anlisis de su
problemtica y alternativas de mejoramiento. Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas,
Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad Central; CONUEP, 1991. 330 p.
A major study of the urban transport system. Details the history of transportation in the city.
7037. Middleton, Alan. The Changing Structure of Petty Production in Ecuador, World
Development, 17:1 (Jan. 1989), 139-155.
7038. Middleton, Alan. La dinmica del sector informal urbano en el Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito:
Centro de Investigaciones de la Realidad Ecuatoriana, 1991. 201 p.
A study of small informal-sector producers from 1974 through 1990.
7039. Middleton, Alan. Pequea produccin no capitalista, empresas capitalistas y el
proceso de acumulacin en el Ecuador, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 5:15/16 (1984), 159172.
7040. Minchom, Martin. La economa subterrnea y el mercado urbano: pulperos, indias
gateras, y recatonas [sic] del Quito colonial (siglos XVI-XVII) Memoria del primer Simposio
Europeo sobre A ntropologa del Ecuador (item 601), p. 175-188.
An overview of the role of Indians in the market economy of the city during the colonial
period. Reprinted in: Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 3:5 (1989), 93-104.
7041. Minchom, Martin. T he People of Quito, 1690-1810: Change and Unrest in the
Underclass. Boulder: Westview Press, 1994. xvii, 297 p.
Although not as well analyzed and interpreted as it could be, a major contribution to the
history of the city of during the second half of the colonial period. Minchom provides a much
needed demographic base to the ongoing reexamination of economic and social developments
in the capital during the colonial period at large. He also broke new ground in that he focused
on the non-elite and in the process illumined many themes, such as socio-racial status and
mobility and religious riots and civil disturbances, especially that of 1765.
See also Minchoms doctoral dissertation: Urban Popular Society in Colonial Quito, c.17001800. 1984. University of Liverpool.
7042. Moncayo, Hugo. Actas del Cabildo de Quito de 1650 a 1657, Boletn de la A cademia
N acional de Historia, 52:114 (jul./dic. 1969), 218-229.
An introduction to and commentary on item 7066j. Also published in: Museo Histrico, 49
(oct./dic. 1970), 1-20.
7043. Monografa ilustrada de la Provincia de Pichincha. Freiburg: Herder, 1922. xxi, 24 p.
Chiefly ill.
Primarily a photo album of the capital.
7044. Moreno Egas, Jorge. La cofrada y la hermandad de los maestros tejedores de Quito,
Revista del Instituto de Historia Eclesistica Ecuatoriana, 13 (1993), 105-124.
A working paper on the Cofrada de Nuestra Seora de la Purificacin. Based on the
brotherhoods record book of 1751-1834.
7045. Moreno Proao, Agustn. Nuevos datos sobre la fundacin jurdica y real del Quito
hispnico, Museo Histrico, 50 (ene./mar. 1971), 1-37.
Also published as a separate: Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1971.
7046. Naranjo, Marcelo F. Convivados de piedra: los indios en el proceso urbano de
Quito, A mrica indgena, 51:2/3 (abr./set. 1991), 251-272.
7047. Nett, Emily M. The Functional Elites of Quito, Journal of Interamerican Studies and
World A ffairs, 13:1 (Jan. 1971), 112-120.
7048. Noni, Bernadette de. Ensayo de caracterizacin de las afueras de Quito, Paisajes
geogrficos (Quito), 17 (jul. 1986), 3-24.
7049. Noticias de los movimientos de Quito en el ao de 1765, Museo Histrico, 3:9
(1951), 37-54.
A coeval account of the 1765 rebellion of the alcabalas.
7050. Oficios o cartas al Cabildo de Quito por el Rey de Espaa o el Virrey de Indias, 1552-1568,
descifrados por Jorge A. Garcs G. Quito: Tall. Tip. Municipales, 1934. xvi, 648 p.
(Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 5).
7051. Oquendo, Luis. Expansin urbana y acceso de los sectores populares al suelo: el caso
de Quito en la dcada de los aos setenta, Ecuador debate, 10 (feb. 1986), 65-102.
7052. Oquendo, Luis. Quito, propiedad territorial y crecimiento urbano, 1 ed. Quito: Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO Ecuador, 1988. vii, 249 p.
7053. Padrn de la ciudad de Quito y su corregimiento, hecho en 1779, [transcrito por]
Rafael Euclides Silva, Mensaje de la Biblioteca N acional, poca 3, 3/4 (1937), 98-101.
7054. Padrn de Santa Barbara en 1768, Museo Histrico, 56 (1978), 93-122.
7055. Paniagua Prez, Jess. La cofrada quitea de San Eloy, Estudios humansticos
(Len), 10 (1988), 197-213.
7056. Paniagua Prez, Jess. Un intento de reactivacin econmica en el Quito del siglo
XVII: la fbrica de loza fina, Estudios de historia social y econmica de A mrica, 12 (1995), 93-105.
An original essay on an heretofore all but unknown incident in the economic history of the
capital and of the late colonial period, the attempt by the peninsulares Salvador Snchez Pareja
and Manuel Dez de la Pea to make a go of it by establishing a porcelain factory. The factory
was in operation from the late 1760s through 1788.
7057. Panorama urbano y cultural de Quito, Rosangela Adoum [et al.], 1 ed. Quito:
Direccin General de Planificacin, Municipio del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito; Sevilla:
Consejera de Obras Pblicas y Transportes, Junta de Andaluca; Madrid: Ministerio de Asuntos
Exteriores de Espaa, 1994. 238 p. (Serie Quito; 10).
7058. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. A puntaciones para una geografa urbana de Quito. Quito:
Impr. Municipal, 1961. xiii, 72 p.
Cover title: Cartografa quitea.
7059. Prez Sinz, Juan Pablo. Entre la fbrica y la ciudad. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1986. 87
p.
7060. Prez Sinz; Juan Pablo; and Juan Carlos Ribadneira. Vivir en la ciudad: pobladores y
reproduccin de la fuerza de trabajo en San Carlos A lto. Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular,
1987. 112 p.
7061. Porras P., Mara Elena. La elite quitea a mediados del siglo XVIII, Quitumbe, 7
(1990), 37-53.
A well documented study of the economic base of members of the elite circa 1750. From the
authors original masters thesis: La lite quitea en el Cabildo, 1763-1805.
7062. Proyecto de una escuela de paleografa, 1814, A RN A HIS, 11:17 (10 ago. 1968), 1-3.
7063. Puga, Miguel Angel. Crnicas del Quito antiguo. Quito: Sociedad Amigos de la
Genealoga, 1991. 399 p. (S.A.G. Series; vol. 49)
7064. Puga, Miguel Angel. Quito de ayer, Quito de siempre. Quito: S.A.G., 1993. 283 p.
(Coleccin Medio milenio; vol. 11)
Items 7064 and 7064 are anecdotal accounts of various aspects of the history of the city from
pre-Hispanic times through the recent present. Pieced together from secondary studies and
published sources.
7065. Quito (Ecuador). La apoteosis de Quito: 26 de agosto de 1954. Quito: Impr. Municipal,
1954. 122 p.
7066. Quito (Ecuador). Cabildo. [Libros de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito]. Quito: Archivo
Municipal, 1934-<1995> <15> v. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 1-4, 6, 8, 13, 14, 17,
20, 26, 30, 33, 36, 37).
Almost every description of and reference to this monumental set, to which I have assigned a
uniform title, is incorrect because the Libros de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito have frequently been
confused with the Publicaciones del A rchivo Municipal de Quito, of which in fact they constitute a
subseries. The first and second Libros de cabildos, coverings the years 1534-1551, were
transcribed by Jos Rumazo Gonzlez; the next eight books, coverings the years 1573-1576,
1593-1616, and 1638-1646, by Jorge A. Garcs Garcs; the eleventh, covering the years 16501657, by Gustavo Chiriboga C.; and twelfth and thirteenth, covering the years 1658-1669, by
Judith Paredes Zarama and Diego Chiriboga Murgueitio. As of July 1997 the following volumes,
in chronological order, had been published:
7066a. Libro primero de Cabildos de Quito, descifrado por Jos Rumazo Gonzlez. Quito:
Archivo Municipal, 1934. 2 v. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 1-2).
7066b. Libro segundo de Cabildos de Quito, descifrado por Jos Rumazo Gonzlez. Quito:
Archivo Municipal, 1934. 2 v. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 3-4).
7066c. Libro del ilustre Cabildo, justicia e regimiento desta muy noble e muy leal ciudad de Sant
Francisco de Quito, 1573-1574, descifrado por Jorge A. Garcs G. Quito: Archivo Municipal,
1934. lx, 313 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 6).
7066d. Libro del ilustre Cabildo, justicia e regimiento desta muy noble e muy leal ciudad de Sant
Francisco de Quito, 1575-1576, descifrado por Jorge A. Garcs G. Quito: Archivo Municipal,
1935. xvii, 314 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 8).
7066e. Libro de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito, 1593-1597, versin de Jorge A. Garcs G.
Quito: Archivo Municipal, 1941. xxiii, 450 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; v.
17).
7066f. Libro de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito, 1597-1603, descrifrado por Jorge A. Garcs
G. Quito: Archivo Municipal, 1937. 2 v. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; vol. 13.14).
7066g. Libro de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito, 1603-1610, versin de Jorge A. Garcs G.
Quito: Archivo Municipal, 1944. vi, 572 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; vol. 20).
7066h. Libro de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito, 1610-1616, versin de Jorge A. Garcs G.
Quito: Archivo Municipal, 1955. vi, 600 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; vol. 26).
7066i. Libro de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito, 1638-1646, versin de Jorge A. Garcs G.
Quito: Archivo Municipal de Quito, 1960. xix, 467 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo
Municipal de Quito; vol. 30).
7066j. Libro de cabildos de la ciudad de Quito, 1650-1657, versin de Gustavo Chirioga C.
Quito: Archivo Municipal de Quito, 1969. xix, 574 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo
Municipal de Quito; vol. 33).
7066k. A ctas del Cabildo colonial de San Francisco de Quito de 1658 a 1663, transcripcin
de Judith Paredes Zamara; revisin de Diego Chiriboga Murgueitio. Quito: Archivo
Municipal de Quito, 1993. xxxviii, 512 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal de Quito;
vol. 36).
7066l. A ctas del Cabildo colonial de San Francisco de Quito de 1664 a 1669, prlogo de Jorge
Salvador Lara; transcripcin de Judith Paredes Zamara; revisin de Diego Chiriboga
Murgueitio. Quito: Archivo Municipal de Quito, 1995. xi, 514 p. (Publicaciones del
Archivo Municipal de Quito; vol. 37).
7067. Quito (Ecuador). Cabildo. Libro de proveimientos de tierras, cuadras, solares, aguas, etc.
por los Cabildos de la ciudad de Quito, 1583-1594, versin de Jorge A. Garcs G. Quito: Archivo
Municipal, 1941. ix, 248 p. (Publicaciones del Archivo Municipal; 18).
7068. Quito (Ecuador: Departamento). Coleccin de oficios y documentos dirigidos por las
autoridades del Departamento de Quito al Cabildo de la ciudad, 1823-1826, transcripcin de
Gustavo Chiriboga C. Quito: Archivo Municipal de Quito, 1972. xi, 460 p. (Publicaciones del
Archivo Municipal; 35).
7069. Quito, fotografas de Vicente Llamazares Martn; textos de Jorge Benavides Sols,
Fernando Carrin, Jorge Salvador Lara. Madrid: Agencia Espaola de Cooperacin
Internacional: Ediciones de Cultura Hispnica, 1989. 240 p.
Primarily a photo album of the capital. Benavides Sols sketches the citys history from preInca times through the late 20th century, and Carrin its growth.
7070. Quito, 150 aos de capital de la repblica: 1830-1980. Quito: Departamento de
Educacin y Cultura Popular, Municipio de Quito, 1980. 161 p.
7071. Quito a travs de los siglos, recopilacin y notas de Elicer Enrquez B. Quito: Impr.
Municipal, 1938-1968. 4 v.
T. 2, 2 pte.: Edit. Artes Grficas. Vol. 3 (i.e., t. 2, 2 pte.) reprints Pablo Herreras A puntes
para la historia de Quito (item 6999). [Vol. 4] entitled: Trptico franciscano quiteo (item 5011).
RIOBAMBA
See also Ricardo Descalzis Sntesis histrica de la ciudad de San Pedro y San Pablo de Riobamba:
estudio de sus fundaciones, nombres y ambiente colonial. Quito: Edit. Pedaggica Freire, 1987. 82
p.
7111. Borja, Luis Alberto. Los condorazos. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Peuser, 1954. 203 p.
7112. Costales Cevallos, Alfredo. Las fundaciones de Riobamba, Revista, Casa de la
Cultura, Ncleo de Chimborazo, 4:4 (sept. 1956), 15-26.
7113. Costales Cevallos, Alfredo. Historia de Riobamba y su provincia. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1972. 169 p.
7114. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo. Riobamba, la ciudad mrtir del siglo XVIII, Museo
Histrico, 6:19 (marzo 1954), 77-93.
Delineates the impact of the devastating earthquake of 1797.
7115. Costales Samaniego, Eudofilo. Riobamba en el tiempo: historia, tradiciones, y leyendas de
Riobamba antiguo y actual. Riobamba: Edit. Espinoza, 1966. 141 p.
7116. Del Pino, Ins. La historia urbana de Riobamba: un viaje a travs del tiempo,
Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 853-861.
7117. Gangotena y Jijn, Cristbal de. Para la historia de Riobamba: una rectificacin,
Boletn de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos A mericanos, 4:10 (ene./feb. 1920), 145152.
7118. Heredia, Jos Flix. Don Martn de Aranda Valdivia y el escudo de armas de la
antigua Riobamba, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 4:10/11 (mar./abr. 1920), 245261.
7119. Len, Carlos Arturo. La ciudad de Riobamba: (datos para una monografa), Dios y
patria (Riobamba), 2:6 (abr. 1925), 178-205.
7120. Martnez Dvalos, Segundo. A rtculos sociales. Quito: Edit. Chimborazo, 1931. 321 p.
7121. El Primer centenario de Riobamba independiente, 1820-1920. Riobamba: Publicacin de
la muy ilustre Municipalidad, 1920. 65 p.
7122. Relacin de las personas que murieron en la villa de Riobamba en el terremoto del
da 4 de febrero de 1797, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 37:89 (ene./jun. 1957),
114-116.
7123. Riobamba: primigenia, sublime y grande ciudad del Ecuador, que ha cubierto de gloria las
pginas de la historia nacional. Quito: SENDIP, 1987. 39 p.
7124. Traversari, Pedro Pablo. La fundacin de Riobamba, su escudo de armas, y la
Historia del P. Juan de Velasco, Dios y patria (Riobamba), 4:13 (ene. 1927), 60-74.
7125. Achig S., Lucas; and Fernando Landvar. El proceso de crecimiento urbano de
Macas, Revista del A rchivo N acional de Historia, Seccin del A zuay, 7 (1987), 46-62.
7126. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Cantonizacin del Paute. Cuenca: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana: Ncleo del Azuay, 1960. 120 p.
7127. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Monografa histrica de Girn. Cuenca: Casa Editora de
Jos M. Astudillo Reglado, 1935. 145 p.
7128. Albornoz, Vctor Manuel. Paute: datos para su historia. Cuenca: Tip. Alianza, 1935.
259 p.
7129. Alcoser Y., Miguel A. Historia de Guamote. Riobamba: Impr. Municipal, 1968. 173
p.
7130. Allou, Serge. Proceso urbano de Santo Domingo y Otavalo: factores, tendencias y
actores: algunos apuntes metodolgicos, Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 843-849.
7131. Anda Aguirrre, Alfonso. Zamora de Quito y el oro de N ambija. Loja: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, Ncleo de Loja, 1986. 143 p.
7132. Anda Aguirrre, Alfonso. Zaruma en la colonia. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1960. 170 p.
A well documented study of the early history of this gold mining town. Unfortunately, it is
limited thematically as well as chronologically in covrage and based on the not altogether
reliable Vacas Galindo Collection.
7133. Barrera, Angel T. Compendio histrico de Babahoyo. Guayaquil: Impr. La Reforma,
1919. 26 p.
7134. Barrueco, Domingo. Historia de Macas. Cuenca: Edit. Don Bosco, 1960. xix, 257 p.
A history of the capital of Morona-Santiago through 1950.
7135. Brooks, Rhoda S.; and Earle Brooks. T he Barrios of Manta: a Personal A ccount of the
Peace Corps in Ecuador. New York: New American Library, 1965. x, 366 p.
Previewed as Ecuador in N ational Geographic, 126:3 (Sept. 1964), 339-345.
7137. Cspedes, Arabella; and Julio Urbez B. Los inmigrantes asiticos y su impacto en la
economa de la ciudad de Quevedo, Revista geogrfica (Quito), 11 (abr. 1979), 121-149.
7138. La Ciduad de Zaruma, Gonzalo Darquea [et al.]. Machala: Banco Central del Ecuador,
1981. 96 p.
7139. Coba Robalino, Jos Mara. Historia de San Jos de Minas: desde 1865 a 1910. Quito:
Sociedad Amigos de la Genealoga, 1993. 238 p.
7140. Cojitambo, artstico y literario, J. Heriberto Rojas C. [compilador]. Cuenca:
Publicaciones y Papeles, 1983. 172 p.
7141. Cojitambo en sus bodas de oro eclesisticas. Cuenca: Tall. Grf. Municipales, 1959. 101
p.
7142. Destruge, Camilo. Yaguachi y Milagro, Boletn de la Biblioteca Municipal de
Guayaquil, 3:37 (ago./sept. 1913), 193-202.
7143. Documentos para la historia de la villa de Gualaceo, Max Romeo Arzaga y Arzaga.
Cuenca: Publicaciones y Papeles, [1983]. 198 p.
Miscellaneous primary sources for the history of Gualaceo.
7144. Documentos relativos a ciudades que existieron en Quijos y Bracamoros, [transcritos
con una introduccin por] Adm Szszdi, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 48:106
(jul./dic. 1965), 259-270.
Publishes six documents from the Archivo General de Indias relating to the short-lived
sixteenth-century cities of Bilbao, Avila, Alcal del Ro, and Nuestra Seora del Ro in the
Oriente.
7145. Espinoza, Leonardo; and Ivn Gonzlez. Visin histrica del Cantn y de la ciudad
de La Troncal, Revista del A rchivo N acional de Historia, Seccin del A zuay, 7 (1987), 63-81.
7146. Estrada Ycaza, Julio. Apuntes para una historia de Daule, Revista del A rchivo
Histrico del Guayas, 4:8 (dic. 1975), 37-70.
Also published as a separate: Guayaquil: Museo Antropolgico y Archivo Histrico, Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1980.
7147. El Estrato popular urbano de la ciudad de Esmeraldas: (informe de investigacin), Nicanor
Jcome B. [et al.]. Quito: Secretara Tcnica del Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo (CONADE),
Seccin de Investigaciones Sociales, 1980. ix, 301 p.
7148. Granda y Maldonado, Jos. Descripcin del pueblo de Catacocha, Revista del
A rchivo N acional de Historia, Seccin del A zuay, 8 (1989), 169-176.
One of the 1808 relaciones geogrficas, the majority of which for southern Ecuador have yet to
be published. Apparently almost all, if not all, of the 1808 descriptions may be found in the
Archivo de la Curia Arquidiocesana de Cuenca and in the Archivo Histrico Nacional
(Bogot).
7149. Gravelin, Blandine. Croissance urbaine en Amazonie quatorienne: le cas de Coca,
Province du Napo, Cahiers des A mriques Latines, 7 (1988), 81-87.
Examines the growth of Coca (i.e., Puerto Francisco de Orellana) from 1957 through 1985.
7150. Grijalva, Carlos Emilio. Monografa del pueblo de Bolvar, Coleccin A migos de la
Genealoga, 23 (nov. 1986), 134-184.
7151. Hermida, Luis Felipe. Jocay-San Pablo de Manta: trayectoria histrica y su relacin con la
Iglesia. Quito: Edit. Ecuatoriana, 1972. 146 p.
7152. Lucena Salmoral, Manuel. La crisis minera de Zaruma (Ecuador) a fines de la
colonia: la visita de 1811, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies = Revista
europea de estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 57 (1994), 52-68.
Examines the depressed state of the mines circa 1811. Based on the detailed visita reports of
that year.
7153. Maldonado Caldern, Arturo. A ctividad econmica del hombre del suburbio. Machala:
Universidad Tcnica de Machala, DISE, 1985. 168 p.
7154. Mata, G. Humberto. Machala en la patria y la cultura. Machala: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, Ncleo de El Oro, 1978. 72 p.
7155. Mera, Alejandro R. Monografa de Tulcn. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1929. viii,
200 p.
7156. Merchn R., Celso A. Chunchi: pasado, presente y futuro. Cuenca: Publicaciones y
Papeles, 1980. 147 p.
7157. Middleton, DeWight R. Changing Economics in an Ecuadorian Maritime
Community, T hose W ho Live from the Sea: a Study in Maritime A nthropology, edited by M.
Estellie Smith (St. Paul: West Publishing Company [for] American Ethnological Society, 1977),
p. 111-124.
Examines the impact of tuna fleet fishing on the fishing fleet of canoes and small sail
launches traditionally employed by manteos.
7158. Middleton, DeWight R. Development and Multiple Use: Conflict on an Ecuadorian
Beach, Urban A nthropology, 17:4 (Winter 1988), 351-364.
Documents the development of an urban beach from a relatively uniform, undifferentiated
area used mainly by traditional fishermen to one increasingly subjected to the diverse pressure of
multiple uses associated with maritime development.
7159. Middleton, DeWight R. Form and Process: a Study of Urban Social Relations in
Manta, Ecuador. 1972. x, 246 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University.
The first major study of modern Manta to have been undertaken by an anthropologist and, as
of July 1997, still one of the only two book length works (for the other see item 7163).
7160. Middleton, DeWight R. The Growth of a City: Urban, Regional, and National
Interaction in Ecuador, Urban A nthropology, 5:2 (Summer 1976), 125-141.
A cogent review of the history of Manta from prehistoric times through the present and of its
regional and national roles.
7161. Middleton, DeWight R. Neighborhood and City in Coastal Ecuador, Urban
A nthropology, 3:2 (Fall 1974), 184-199.
A study of social organization among the poor of Manta. Based on fieldwork undertaken
between 1970 and 1971.
7162. Molina, Rodrigo. Algunos aspectos socioeconmicos de la urbanizacin de
Machala, Ecuador debate, 7 (ene. 1985), 161-173.
7163. Naranjo, Marcelo F. Etnicidad, estructura social y poder en Manta: occidente ecuatoriano.
Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1980. 329 p.
Originally presented as the authors doctoral dissertation at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign.
7164. Naranjo, Marcelo F. Political Dependency, Ethnicity, and Cultural Transformations
in Manta, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 95-120.
Items 7163 and 7164 are important because they constituted the only ethnographic studies of
the port of Manta to have been undertaken by a national scholar as of July 1997, but somewhat
less than satisfactory because Naranjo predicated his analysis on exogenous paradigms, especially
the dependency model. Furthermore, Naranjos discussion of ethnicity and class leave
something to be desired.
7165. Navarro, Jos Gabriel. Fundacin del pueblo de Pomasqui, Boletn de la A cademia
N acional de Historia, 21:58 (jul./dic. 1941), 265-268.
7166. Navas, Juan de Dios. A las puertas de El Dorado, Oriente dominicano, 3:16
(sept./oct. 1930), 153-158.
Baos de Tungurahua in the 17th and 18th centuries.
7167. Navas V., Jos Buenaventura. Monografa histrica e ilustrada de la Parroqua de
Manglaralto. Guayaquil: Impr. y Romero, 1923. 77 p.
7168. Paredes, Domingo; and Eduardo Estrella. Cochasqui. Quito: Consejo Provincial de
Pichincha, [1984?]. 159 p.
Contents: Domingo Paredes, Comuna de Cochasqui: bienes culturales y desarrollo socioeconmico; Eduardo Estrella, Cochasqui: aspectos generales y recomendaciones sobre
alimentacin, nutricin y salud.
7169. Porras G., Pedro I. Historia y arqueologa de la ciudad espaola Baeza de los Quijos.
Quito: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1974. 219 p. (Estudios cientficos sobre el
Oriente ecuatoriano; 1).
7170. Reyes, Ricardo I. Ensayo de monografa de la clebre Parroqua de Urcuqu. Ibarra: Impr.
Cultur, 1941. 105 p.
7171. Rivera, Fredy; and F. Mora. Comuna Ro Santiago: 100 aos de nuestra historia. Quito:
Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1985. 42 p.
7172. Rodrguez, Jos R. Eje Manta-Portoviejo: futura conurbacin?, Memorias del V
Congreso N acional de Historia y Geografa del Ecuador (item 559), p. 84-91.
7173. Rodrguez C., Horacio. Monografa de Chillogallo, Museo Histrico, 51 (1971), 328334.
7174. Rumazo Gonzlez, Jos. La ciudad de San Gregorio de Puerto Viejo, Boletn de la
A cademia N acional de Historia, 16:46/49 (jul./dic. 1937), 67-85.
An important, well researched essay on the foundation, early years, and original vecinos of
Portoviejo. Includes a documentary appendix.
7175. Saltos, Augusto Csar. En tierras de Bolvar: tradiciones, estampas y leyendas. Quito:
Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1969. 372 p.
Focuses on Guaranda.
7176. Torres, Luis Antonio. Tres pueblos de los A ndes en cuatro siglos de existencia: Cubijes,
San Lucas de Ilape, Penipe. Riobamba: Edit. Progreso, 1940. 76 p.
7177. Torres Riofro, Victoriano. Fundacin de Zaruma. Loja: Edit. Universitaria, 1949. 30
p.
7178. Vilatuna Paez, Elicio. Pntag, historia y desarrollo. Pntag: Artes Grficas H.C.P.P.,
1987. 109 p.
7179. Viter Garrido, Bolvar Alonso; Oswaldo E. Villalba; and Csar Montesdeoca
Montalvo. Monografa de San A ntonio de Ibarra. Quito: Ediciones IADAP, 1989. 156 p.
7180. Ynez Quirola, Francisco Gerardo. Historia cuatrisecular del pueblo de San A ndrs.
Otavalo: Edit. Gallocapitn, 1979. 102 p.
7181. Zaruma: cuatro siglos de peregrinaje histrico, Memorias de las XIV Jornadas de Historia
Social, Zaruma 27-29 agosto de 1992. Quito: Corporacin Ecuatoriana de Amigos de la
Genealoga, 1992. 297 p.
Contents: Anibal Torres Carrin, Fundacin de Zaruma; Vicente Moreno, Similitudes
entre Toledo y Zaruma; Ricardo Ordez Ch., Judaismo en Zaruma; Fernando Jurado Noboa,
El poblamiento de Zaruma entre 1560 y 1820; Gonzalo Rodrguez Caldern, Estudio
incompleto de autoridades coloniales y republicanas de Zaruma: 1565-1900; Rafael Savoia, La
presencia del hombre negro en Zaruma; Fernando Jurado Noboa, El destino del oro de
Zaruma; Rosaura Garca, La inquisicin en Loja y Zaruma; Gustavo A. Rivadeneira Romero,
Estudio sobre la posibilidad de que todas las familias Romero tengan un origen comn; Ezio
Garay Arellano, Los Balarezo o Valarezo y su difusin desde Zaruma; Gonzalo Rodrguez
Caldern, Breve esbozo histrico de la Iglesia Matriz de Zaruma: 1800-1930; Angel Iiguez A.,
Dispensas matrimoniales otorgadas por el Sr. Obispo a los moradores de Zaruma: 1830-1850;
Jos Mayorga, Zaruma en la poca de Garca Moreno; Gonzalo Rodrguez Caldern, Apuntes
varios sobre la compaa inglesia que labor en Zaruma de 1877 a 1896; Hctor Toro, Zaruma:
rasgos que la caracterizan, sus hijos ilustres; Jorge Reyes, Breves anotaciones del arte teatral en
Zaruma.
DESCRIPTION AN D TRAVEL
Heretofore the only major bibliographies of travel accounts of Ecuador were the
corresponding sections in Carlos Manuel Larreas Bibliografa cientfica(items 110-111) and
Robert E. Norriss Gua bibliogrfica (item 150). Although this section endeavors to be
comprehensive, it does not include every travel account devoted to Ecuador or that includes
substantial coverage of Ecuador for two reasons. First, difficult as it may be to believe, given the
magnitude of and long standing interest in this genre, not every travel account is known. That is
to say, some accounts have yet to be rediscovered. In this regard, consult Daro Laras Viajeros
franceses al Ecuador en el siglo XIX (item 7343). Secondly, it has not been possible to flesh out
the bibliographic particulars of all known accounts.
The most detailed and in many respects the most important geographies of the country have
been: Theodor Wolfs classic, more than a century old Geografa y geologa (item 7470); and the
much more recent, multi-volume Geografa bsica del Ecuador (item 581). Perhaps the best brief
account continues to be Francisco Terns Geografa (item 7451). Insofar as historical geography
is concerned, Jean-Paul Delers Gense de lespace quatorien, also published in Spanish as
Ecuador, del espacio al estado nacional (item 564) is a superb as well as basic study.
7182. Acosta Sols, Misael. Breves anotaciones sobre la historia de la climatologa del
Ecuador, Flora (Quito), 3:7/10 (dic. 1943), 10-45.
Also published as a separate: Breves anotaciones sobre la historia de la climatologa del Ecuador, 2
ed. Quito: Publicaciones Cientficas MAS, 1944. 47 p.
7183. Acosta Sols, Misael. Los climas en las regiones naturales del Ecuador, Flora
(Quito), 4:11/12 (mayo 1944), 139-210.
For a listing of other publications of Acosta Sols relating to the ecology and geography of the
country see his: Bibliografa biolgica, botnica, agrcola y conservacionista del Dr. M. A costa Sols:
1930-1960. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana [para el] Instituto Ecuatoriano de Ciencias
Naturales, 1960. 36 p.
7184. Acosta Sols, Misael. Geografa y ecologa de las tierras ridas del Ecuador. Quito:
Instituto Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales, 1970. 117 p.
7185. Acosta Sols, Misael. Maderas econmicas del Ecuador y sus usos. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1960. 321p.
7186. Acosta Sols, Misael. Los manglares del Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Ciencias Naturales, 1959. 82 p.
7187. Acosta Sols, Misael. Los pramos andinos del Ecuador. Quito: Publicaciones
Cientficas MAS, 1984. 220 p.
7188. Acosta Sols, Misael. Por la conservacin de las tierras andinas: la erosin en el Ecuador y
mtodos aconsejados para su control. Quito: Edit. Ecuador, 1952. 187 p.
7189. Acosta Sols, Misael. Los recursos naturales del Ecuador y su conservacin, 1 ed.
Mxico: Instituto Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, 1965-1968. 4 v. (Plan piloto del
Ecuador).
7190. Acosta Sols, Misael. La tierra agrcola: nuestro recurso bsico. Quito: Publicaciones
Cientficas MAS, 1986. 402 p.
7191. Acosta Sols, Misael. Toponomias indgenas de la geografa ecuatoriana, Revista
colombiana de ciencias exactas, fsicas y naturales, 26:60 (mar. 1986), 99-133.
7192. A ctas de la Reunin de Trabajo sobre el Fenmeno Conocido como El N io, Guayaquil,
Ecuador, 4-12 de diciembre de 1974, organizado dentro del Decenio Internacional de Exploracin
Ocenica (IDOE) bajo los auspicios de la COI [et al.]. Roma: Organizacin de las Naciones
Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentacin, 1976. v, 411 p.
Also published in English as: Proceedings of the Workshop on the Phenomenon Known as El
N io, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 4-12 December 1974, organized within the International Decade of
Ocean Exploration (IDOE) by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) [et
al.]. Paris: UNESCO, 1980.
7193. Acua, Cristbal de. N uevo descubrimiento del gran Ro del A mazonas: al cual fue por la
Provincia de Quito el ao de 1639, publicacin dirigida por Ral Reyes y Reyes. Quito: Impr. del
Gobierno, 1942. xiv, 79 p. (Biblioteca Amazonas; 4).
Reprint; originally published: Madrid: Impr. del Reino, 1641. [6], 46 leaves. An account of a
1639 journey from Quito to the mouth of the Amazon by a member of the Pedro de Tejeira
expedition. Acua, a Jesuit priest, was assigned by the Viceroy of Peru to accompany Tejeira on
the return portion of his round trip reconnaissance of the Amazon and to report the results of
the expeditions discoveries and travails. There are numerous other editions. Also published in
English as: A Relation of the Great River of Amazons in South-America, Voyages and
Discoveries in South-A merica (London: S. Buckley, 1698), p. 1-190; and in French as: Relation de
la riviere des A mazonas (Paris: C. Barbin, 1682).
7194. Adoum, Jorge Enrique. Ecuador, imgenes de un pretrito presente, 1 ed. Quito: Edit.
El Conejo, 1981. [188] p. Chiefly ill.
7195. Aguilar Vzquez, Carlos. El pas del sol. Cuenca: Impr. del Colegio Benigno Malo,
1926. 90 p.
7196. Albornoz G., Hugo L. Por tierras ecuatorianas, 1 ed. Quito: Ministerio de Educacin
Pblica, 1948. 56 p.
7197. Albrizzi, Carlo. Carta de Carlo Albrizzi, S.J., misionero en el Maran, Revista de
historia de A mrica, 69 (ene./jun. 1970), 85-105.
An amusing letter of 4 May 1756, in which Albrizzi recounts to his father the events of his
two year voyage from Genoa to Quito. Translated from the Latin with an introduction by
Charles E. Ronan.
7198. Alejandro Valdez, Erasmo. Geografa fsica, humana y econmica del Ecuador. Loja:
Universidad Tcnica Particular de Loja; Universidad Abierta, 1987. iv, 635, 14 p.
7199. Almagro, Manuel de. Breve descripcin de los viajes hechos en A mrica por la Comisin
Cientfica enviada por el gobierno de S.M.C. durante los aos 1862 a 1866. Madrid: Impr. de M.
Rivadeneyra, 1866. 174 p.
On the Commissions explorations and activities in Ecuador, see pp. 76-152.
7200. Alsedo y Herrera, Dionisio de. Descripcin geogrfica de la Real A udiencia de Quito.
Madrid: Impr. de Fortanet [for] the Hispanic Society of America, 1915. xxxv, 100 p.
Publishes for the first time, with a prologue, notes, and geographic index prepared by Angel
Gonzlez Palencia, Alsedo y Herreras 1766 relacin geogrfica. A major cartographic as well as a
historical geographic source. The original manuscript is entitled: Plano geogrfico, y
hidrogrfico del distrito de la Real Audiencia de Quito, y descripciones de las provincias,
goviernos, y corregimientos que se comprehenden en su jurisdiccin, y las ciudades, villas,
assientos y pueblos que ocupan sus territorios ...
7201. Alvarez, Eudofilo. Ocho cartas halladas por Eudofilo A lvarez. Quito: Tip. La Rpida,
1903. 118 p.
This curious work, which I have not seen, nominally consists of eight letters written by one
Alfredo from Granada, Spain, during his travels throughout Ecuador in the late nineteenth
century. The letters, however, are known to have been written by the Alvarez himself.
Alvarez was born in Latacunga in 1876, sojourned in Europe, and occupied several high posts,
including that of Director of the National Library.
7202. A mrica pintoresca: descripcin de viajes al nuevo continente, por los ms modernos
exploradores Carlos Wiener [et al.] Barcelona: Montaner y Simn, 1884. 859 p.
More than half of this profusely illustrated coffee table book is given over to accounts of
Ecuador in the late 1870s and early 1880s: Carlos (i.e., Charles) Wiener, Viaje al Ro de las
Amazonas y a las cordilleras (p. 1-112); and Ed[ouard] Andr, Amrica equinoccial:
Colombia, Ecuador (p. 477-859). Wieners travels took place between 1879 and 1882, and
Andrs in 1876. Wiener was an engineer and Andr, a botanist. Although the illustrations
consist of pen-and-ink drawings, the majority appear to have been reproduced from photographs
and are comparable to those of scientific expeditions in detail and comprehensiveness. The
illustrationsbut not the texthave been reprinted as: A mrica pintoresca (Madrid: ERISA,
1980; and Bogot: Ancora Editores, 1984).
7203. Andrade Marn, Luciano. A ltitudes de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Edit.
Selecciones, 1931. 133 p.
7204. Andrade Marn, Luciano. La desconocida regin de Oyacachi: rectificaciones
geogrficas, hallazgos etnolgicos y de un precioso manuscrito indito en poder oculto de los
indios, A nales de la Universidad Central del Ecuador, 79:331/332 (ene./jun. 1952), 5-64.
7205. Andrade Marn, Luciano. El Ecuador minero, el Ecuador manufacturero, el Ecuador
cacaotero: (breve balance crtico de los recursos naturales del Ecuador). Quito: Impr. Nacional ,
1932. 111 p.
A classic account of the economic geography of the country circa 1930.
7206. Andrade Marn, Luciano. Viaje a las misteriosas montaas de Llanganati: expedicin
italo-ecuatoriana Boschett-A ndrade Marn, 1933-1934. Quito: Impr. Mercantil, 1936. 239 p.
7207. Anhalzer, Jorge. Parques nacionales del Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Mariscal, [1988?]. [166]
p. Chiefly col. ill.
This and the following two items are coffee table books. Also published in English as:
N ational Parks of Ecuador.
7208. Anhalzer, Jorge. Ecuador, tierras altas, 1 ed. Quito: Impr. Mariscal, 1987. [144] p.
Chiefly col. ill.
Also published in English as: Ecuador, the Highlands.
7209. Anhalzer, Jorge; and Ramiro Navarrete. Por los A ndes del Ecuador = T hrough the A ndes
of Ecuador. Quito: Ediciones Campoabierto, 1983. 171 p. Chiefly col. ill.
In Spanish, English, and German.
7210. Anthony, H.E. From Humid Forest to Snow Capped Height in Ecuador, N atural
History, 21:5 (Sept. 1921), 458-473.
7211. Anthony, H.E. High Andes of Ecuador, N atural History, 24:4 (July 1924), 429-441.
7212. Anthony, H.E. Over Trail and Through Jungle in Ecuador: Indian Head-Hunters of
the Interior, N ational Geographic Magazine, 40:4 (Oct. 1921), 327-352.
Describes the city and province of Loja and the Shuar in prose and black-and-white plates.
7213. A ntologa ecolgica del Ecuador, Fausto Sarmiento Rodrguez, compilador. Quito:
Corporacin de Estudios para el Desarrollo, 1987. 196 p.
In Spanish and English.
7214. A tlas del Ecuador, Anne Collin Delavaud [et al.]. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador;
Paris: Les ditions, 1982. 80 p.
7215. A tlas geogrfico de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Geogrfico Militar, 1977.
82 p.
7216. Avendao, Joaqun de. Imagen del Ecuador: economa y sociedad, vistas por un viajero
del siglo XIX, introduccin y organizacin documental de Leoncio Lpez-Ocn Cabrera. Quito:
Corporcin Editora Nacional, 1985. 322 p.
Detailed reports from 1857-1858 by the Spanish consul in Guayaquil and Quito on the state
of the country, especially its economic conditions and potential (e.g., Memoria sobre el
comercio y la navegacin del Ecuador con los dems pases, y especialmente con Espaa:
precedida de un bosquejo del estado fsico, agrcola e industrial de las diez provincias de la
repblica [p. 237-322]).
7217. Banda, Francisco. T he Republic of Ecuador and Her Principal A gricultural Products.
Quito: Impr. Nacional, 1936. 19 p.
7218. Barker, Barry W.; and Charles R. Barett. Haciendas of Ecuador. Ft. Lauderdale:
Earthworld Press, 1995. 91 p.
A bed-and-breakfast guide.
Variant title: Metropolitan Guide to the Haciendas of Ecuador. A guide to bed and breakfast
haciendas. Contains some historical data. Well illustrated.
7219. Bayern, Therese von. Reisestudien aus dem Westlichen Sudamerika. Berlin: Dietrich
Reimer, 1908. 2 v.
For Princess Thereses impressions of Ecuador see vol. 1, p. 262-379.
7220. Bedoya Maruri, Angel Nicanor. N evados de Ecuador y Quito colonial. Quito: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1976. 258 p.
This work actually consists of three (not two), separate studies. Pt. 1, Nevados, recounts
ascensions and explorations of snow covered peaks; pt. 2, Los conquistadores, abstracts coeval
accounts of the Spanish conquest and subsequent civil wars between the conquistadores; and pt.
3, Quito colonial,consists of well documented descriptions of monuments and vignettes of
personages of the colonial period.
7221. Bemelmans, Ludwig. T he Donkey Inside. New York: Viking Press, 1941. 224 p.
Delightful as well as insightful impressions in prose and drawings (some in color) of Ecuador
in the 1930s, by the creator of Madeleine.
7222. Benalcazar Rosales, Csar. Ecuador, pas de primera en la mitad del mundo, 2 ed., aum.
y actualizada. Quito: Edit. Epoca, 1981. 302 p.
7223. Blanchard, Dean Hobbs. Ecuador, Crown Jewel of the A ndes. New York: Vantage
Press, 1962. 223 p.
The country circa 1960.
7224. Blandn Landvar, Carlos. El clima y sus caractersticas en el Ecuador. Quito: Instituto
Panamericano de Geografa e Historia, Seccin Nacional del Ecuador, 1976. 83 p.
7225. Blomberg, Rolf. Buried Gold and A nacondas. London: Ruskin House; New York:
Nelson, 1959. 144 p.
Originally published in Swedish as: Guld att Hmta. Also published in German as: A nakonda,
auf Filmjagd im Urwald Ekuadors und Kolumbiens ... Wiesbadden: E. Brockhaus, 1957. 159 p.
Recounts several trips made during the first half of the 1950s into the Llangantes Mts. and
uninhabited jungles of eastern Ecuador in search of lost treasure and giant snakes.
7226. Blomberg, Rolf. Latitud O , glimtar frn Ecuador. Stockholm: H. Geber, 1960. 162 p.
7227. Borja A., Cristina; and Sergio Lasso B. Plantas nativas para reforestacin en el Ecuador.
Quito: Fundacin Natura, 1990. 208 p.
7228. Borrero Vintimilla, Antonio. Geografa econmica del Ecuador: la economa ecuatoriana.
Cuenca: Universidad de Cuenca, 1974. 580 p.
A solid general geography of the country, notwithstanding the title and subtitle.
7229. Bouguer, Pierre. La figure de la terre: dterminc par les observations de Messieurs
Bouguer, & de la Condamine, de lA cadmie royale des siences, envoys par ordre du Roy au Prou,
pour observer aux environs de lquateur. Paris: C.A. Jombert, 1749. [24], cx, 394 p.
7230. Bouguer, Pierre. Relation abrege du voyage du Prou. Paris, 1744-1746. 2 v.
Also published in English as: An Abridged Relation of a Voyage to Peru, Undertaken ... to
Measure the Degrees of the Meridian near the Equator, A General Collection of the Best and Most
Interesting Voyages and Travels in A ll Parts of the World, [edited by] John Pinkerton, vol. 14
(London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1813), p. 270-313.
7231. Boussingault, Jean Baptiste Joseph Dieudonn. Viajes cientficos a los A ndes
ecuatoriales, o, Coleccin de memorias sobre fsica, qumica e historia natural de la N ueva Granada,
Ecuador y Venezuela, traduccin por J. Acosta. Paris: Lasserre, 1849. xxi, 322 p.
Boussingault spent nearly ten years in northern South America, culminating his explorations
in 1831 with an attempt to scale Chimborazo. See also his: Memorias (Bogot: Comisin
Preparatoria para el V Centenario del Descubrimiento de Amrica : Instituto Colombiano de
Cultura-Colcultura, 1994; 3 v.); and Francis Halls Excursions in the Neighborhood of Quito,
and towards the Summit of Chimborazo, in 1831 Journal of Botany: Being a Second Series of the
Botanical Miscellany, edited by William Jackson Hooker, 1 (1834), 327-354. N.B. Hall usually
accompanied Boussingault on his Ecuadorian excursions. This time around they were joined by
William Jameson.
7232. Browning, Webster E. T he Republic of Ecuador: Social, Intellectual and Religious
Conditions Today. New York: Committee on Co-operation in Latin America, 1920. 30 p.
7233. Brownrigg, Leslie Ann. A l futuro desde la experiencia: los pueblos indgenas y el manejo
del medio ambiente. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1986. 243 p.
7234. Buchet, Martine. Panam: sombrero de leyenda. Quito: Ediciones Libri Mundi, 1995.
143 p. Chiefly col. ill.
A coffee table book on the Panama hat and its manufacture in Ecuador.
7235. Caldas, Francisco Jos de. Obras completas. Bogot: Universidad Nacional de
Colombia, 1966. 531 p.
Does not include his correspondence for which see item 1363.
7236. Caldas, Francisco Jos de. Relacin de un viaje hecho a Cotacache, la Villa, Imbabura,
Cayambe, etc.: comenzado el 23 de julio de 1802, [edicin de] Agustn Barreiro. Madrid: V.
Surez, 1933. 214 p.
Caldass travels throughout the highlands. Reprinted in his Obras completas (item 7236).
7237. Caldas, Francisco Jos de. Viajes: (viaje al corazn del Barnuevo). Bogot: Impr.
Minerva, 1936. 161 p.
Caldass travels in the central and southern highlands. Reprinted in his Obras completas
(item 7236).
7238. Canby, Thomas Y. El Nios Ill Wind, N ational Geographic, 165:2 (Feb. 1984), 144183.
Places the El Nio of 1982/1983 in global perspective. See p. 146-147 and 164-167 for its
impact on Ecuador. See also items 7247 and 7249.
7239. Caadas, Luis. El mapa bioclimtico y ecolgico del Ecuador. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1983. 210 p.
7240. Carpenter, Frank George. Lands of the A ndes and the Desert. Garden City, N.Y.:
Doubleday, Page & Co., 1924. xiv, 285 p.
An early-twentieth-century account of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia replete with 104
illustrations from original photographs.
7241. Carpio Vintimilla, Julio; and Rodrigo Lpez Monsalve. Gua turstica del Ecuador.
Cuenca: Ediciones La Golondrina, 1994. 242 p.
7242. Carrera Andrade, Jorge. La tierra siempre verde: el Ecuador visto por los cronistas de
Indias, los corsarios y los viajeros ilustres. Paris: Ediciones Internacionales, 1955. 281 p.
An impressionistic account of the colonial period. Loosely based on the accounts of
chroniclers, pirates, and scientific travelers. Riddled with errors.
7243. La Carretera Rumichaca-Babahoyo. Quito: Tall. Tip. del Estado, 1930. 128 p.
Published for the Oficina de Informacin y Propaganda anexa a la Secretara de la
Presidencia.
7244. Casal, Manuel Alfredo. Gran gua estadstica sud-americana: refutacin. Guayaquil:
Oficina Tipogrfica, 1895. 122 p.
Refutes the errors regarding Ecuador in the Gran gua estadstica sud-americana (Geneva,
1892). A quasi-gua de forasteros, replete with exceptionally interesting minutiae.
7245. Casey, Alfredo. Tiempo y ambiente de la Repblica del Ecuador. La Plata, Argentina:
Municipalidad de La Plata, 1962. 82 p.
7246. Castro, Julio. Pginas de una cartera de viaje: un viaje con Garca Moreno en 1861,
Boletn de la A cademia N acional de Historia, 33:82 (jul./dic. 1953), 173-220.
An account of travel by mule and river launch between Guayaquil and Manab and to
Latacunga.
7247. Caviedes, Csar N. El Nio 1982-83, Geographical Review, 74:3 (July 1984), 267290.
7248. Cicala, Mario. Descripcin histrico-topogrfica de la Provincia de Quito de la Compaa
de Quito. Quito: Biblioteca Ecuatoriana Aurelio Espinosa Plit, 1994. 669 p.
Not just the first Spanish version of this 1771 account but the first complete edition of
Cicalas Descrizione istorico-fsica de la Provincia del Quito to have been published in any language.
Translated from the Italian by Julin G. Bravo and Marcos Gndara Enrquez. Cicala, one of
the Jesuit expulsos, spent nearly twenty-three years in the future Ecuador. An exceptionally
important historical geographic source as well as a major coeval description.
7249. Los Climas del Ecuador, Pierre Pourrut [et al.]. Quito: Centro Ecuatoriano de
Investigacin Geogrfica, 1983. 87 p. (Documentos de investigacin, Centro Ecuatoriano de
Investigacin Geogrfica; no. 4).
Contents: Pierre Pourrot, Los climas del Ecuador: fundamentos explicativos; Jorge Acosta
T. and Alain Winckell, Apuntes sobre la cartografa de las inundaciones en la Cuenca del
Guayas (invierno de 1982-1983); and Jos Rodrguez Rojas, El fenmeno del Nio y sus
efectos en el litoral insular de Galpagos.
7250. A Comparison of Montane and Lowland Rain Forest in Ecuador, P.J. Grubb [et al.],
Journal of Ecology, 51:3 (Nov. 1963), 567-601; 54:2 (July 1966), 303-331.
7251. Compendio de informacin socio-econmica de las provincias del Ecuador. Quito: Oficina
de los Censos Nacionales, 1975-1977. 16 v. in 20.
Primarily a set of place maps. Exceptionally detailed but unfortunately not indexed.
7252. Coral Vega, Pablo. A ndes del Ecuador: paisajes del silencio. Quito: Andes Editores:
Villegas Editores, 1992. 130 p. Chiefly col. ill.
This and the following two items are coffee table books. Also published in English as: A ndes
of Ecuador: Silent Landscapes.
7253. Coral Vega, Pablo. Tierra desnuda = T he Bare Earth: A Pictorial Book on Ecuador.
Quito: Corporacin de Promocin Universitaria, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, 1989. 95
p. Chiefly col. ill.
In Spanish and English.
7254. Coral Vega, Pablo; and Cristbal Coral Vega. El Ecuador de la magia al espanto.
Quito: Impr. Mariscal, 1993. 154 p. Chiefly col. ill.
7255. Coulter, John. A dventures on the Western Coast of South A merica, and the Interior of
California: Including a N arrative of Incidents at the Kingsmill Islands, N ew Ireland, N ew Britain, N ew
Guinea, and Other Islands in the Pacific Ocean. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and
Longmans, 1847. 2 v.
Reprinted in photofacsimile: Boston: Longwood Press, 1978. 2 v. in 1.
7256. Cremieux, Robert F. Geografa econmica del Ecuador: economa agraria e industrial.
Guayaquil: Impr. de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1946. <1> v.
Only vol. 1 was published. Notwithstanding the title, a useful, general geography of the
country.
7257. Cruz, Marco. Montaas del Ecuador. Quito: Dinediciones, [1992?]. 175 p. Chiefly
col. ill.
Primarily a coffee table book.
7258. Cruz Astudillo, Roberto. Los recursos hdricos y su impacto en el desarrollo del
Ecuador, Cultura, 8:24a (ene./abr. 1986), 315-324.
7259. Cultural, Educational, Tourist, Industrial, Commercial, A gricultural, and Livestock
Information Handbook of the Republic of Ecuador = Manual de informacin cultural, educativa,
turstica, industrial, comercial, agrcola y ganadera de la Repblica del Ecuador. Cuenca: Cientfica
Latina Editores, 1980. 3 v.
An encyclopedic account.
7260. Cuvi, Pablo. Ecuador paso a paso: gua turstica. Barcelona: Grupo Edit. Norma, 1994.
184 p.
7261. Cuvi, Pablo. En los ojos de mi gente: relatos y fotografas de viajes por el Ecuador, 1 ed.
Quito: Dinediciones: Grijalvo, 1988. 205 p. Chiefly ill.
A superior picture book. Also published in English as: In the Eyes of My People: Stories and
Photos of Journeys through Ecuador.
7262. Church, George Earl. Ecuador in 1881. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1883. 56 p. (47th
Congress, 2nd session; Senate doc. 69 [serial 2076]).
An account of the country during the Progressive era by a North American ambassador.
For President Antonio Flores reaction thereto, see item 7297.
7263. De Noni, Georges; and Germn Trujillo. Degredacin del suelo en el Ecuador:
principales causas y algunas reflexiones sobre la conservacin de este recurso, Cultura, 8:24b
(ene./abr. 1986), 383-394.
7264. Derby, Edward Henry Stanley, Earl of. Six Weeks in South A merica. London: Printed
for private circulation by T. and W. Boone, 1850. iv, 132 p.
The author went ashore at Santa Marta and Cartagena, crossed the Isthmus of Panama, and
spent several weeks in Ecuador, mostly in and around Guayaquil and Quito.
7265. Descubriendo Ecuador, Franois Ancellet [et al.]. Quito: Impr. Marcial, 1994. 240 p.
Chiefly ill.
Also published in English as: Discovering Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.
7266. Desmarest, David Clarence. A n A dventure at T hree Score-and-Ten. Quito: Impr.
Nacional, 1937. 133 p.
Recollections of areal reconnaissances over the highlands in the 1930s.
7267. Dickey, Herbert Spencer. T he Misadventures of a Tropical Medico, in collaboration
with Hawthorne Daniel. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1929. 304 p.
Travels in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil. The author was a physician.
7268. Division poltico-administrativa de la Repblica del Ecuador. 1981-. Quito: Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1981-. Annual.
Continues: Divisin poltica territorial de la Repblica del Ecuador and Divisin territorial de la
Repblica del Ecuador, the publication histories of which remain to be established. Not published
for every year; appeared for 1996 and 1998, but not for 1997, for example.
7269. Domnguez, Marco. La geografa y la planificacin de los recursos hidrulicos de la
Cuenca del Ro Guayas, Revista geogrfica (Quito), 21 (abr. 1985), 41-63.
7270. Dyott, George M. On the Trail of the Unknown: In the Wilds of Ecuador and the
A mazon. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1926. 288 p.
An account of the authors attempts to scale Sangay (unsuccessful) and Tungurahua
(successful) and his visit to the Shuar of the Macas region in the mid 1920snowhere does the
author stipulate the year of his travels, but it has to have been after the establishment of the
Salesian mission in 1924. See also Dyotts account of his first visit to the Shuar: Silent Highways
of the Jungle: Being the A dventures of an Explorer in the A ndes and Reaches of the Upper A mazon.
New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1922. 319 p.
7271. Dyott, George M. The Volcanoes of Ecuador: Guideposts in Crossing South
America, N ational Geographic Magazine, 55:1 (Jan. 1929), 49-93.
7272. Ecuador. Boulogne: Delroisse, 1977. 160 p.
Primarily a picture book with reproduction of photographs by Bodo Wuth and others and
some text in English, French, German, and Spanish by Juan Cueva Jaramillo.
7273. Ecuador, edited by Tony Perrottet; photography by Eduardo Gil [et al.], lst ed.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company for APA Publications, 1993. 372 p.
A photographic portrait of and useful guide, as of the early 1990, to the country in well
reproduced, stunning photographs and eminently readable prose. The text is by various authors,
some of them exceptionally well versed. The occasional references to historical events and
personages, however, are not altogether reliable. Periodically updated in revised editions.
7274. El Ecuador actual. Guayaquil: Impr. El Universo, 1936. 222 p.
Probably a picture book.
7275. El Ecuador en Chicago. Guayaquil: Diario de Avisos, 1894. xiv, 432 p.
The country circa 1892. Includes numerous reproductions of coeval photographssome of
which appear nowhere elseof places, buildings, and persons. Published as a record of
Ecuadors participation in the Columbian Exposition of 1892. Preface signed: L.F. Borja,
director de El Ecuador en Chicago.
7276. El Ecuador en el centenario de la independencia de Guayaquil, 9 de octubre de 1920: 18201920, J.J. Jurado Avils, editor. New York: De Laisne & Carranza, 1920. 272 p.
In Spanish and English. Ecuador circa 1920. Well illustrated.
7277. El Ecuador, gua comercial, agrcola e industrial de la repblica. Guayaquil: Compaa
Gua del Ecuador, 1909. 1327 p.
A vade mecum on the geography and economy of the country as of the late nineteenth and
early twentieth centuries. Exceptionally detailed and profusely illustrated.
7278. Ecuador, gua prctica. Guayaquil: Empresa Periodstica Prensa Ecuatoriana, 1929.
359 p.
7279. Ecuador, gua prctica, 2 ed. Guayaquil: Empresa Periodstica Prensa Ecuatoriana,
1932. lxiv, 361 p.
This early twentieth-century Baedeker was compiled, edited, and published by Carlos Manuel
Noboa as was also item 7278. It is not known if there were any other editions.
7280. Ecuador: la naturaleza y el hombre = N ature and Man = Le N ature et lhome = Die N atur
und der Mensch , coordinacin general, promocin y edicin, Hctor Merino Valencia; autores,
Humberto Vacas Gmez [et al.]. Quito: Ediciones Paralelo Cero, [1977]. 2 v.
Primarily a picture book of no extraordinary value. The texts and captions (in Spanish,
English, French, and German) are superficial. The color plates are poorly done. Some of the
black-and-white illustrations, however, are more or less well reproduced, eloquent, and
revealing.
7281. Ecuador, Official Standard N ames A pproved by the United States Board on Geographic
N ames. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1957. iii, 189 p.
7282. Ecuador, a Synthesis of the World in the A ndes. Quito: Impr. Mariscal, 1992. 109 p.
Prepared for distribution at the Exposicin Universal de 1992 (Seville). Includes the catalog
of the Ecuadorian exhibit.
7283. Ecuador visto por los extranjeros. Quito: Salvat Editores Ecuatoriana, 1983. 1 v. (not
paginated). Chiefly ill.
7284. El Ecuador visto por los extranjeros: viajeros de los siglos XVIII y XIX, estudio y
selecciones de Humberto Toscano. Puebla, Mxico: Cajica, 1960. 580 p. (Biblioteca
ecuatoriana mnima; [11]).
An anthology of travel accounts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Toscanos
Introduccin (p. 17-96) is exceptionally useful.
7285. Eichler, Arturo. Ecuador, un pas, un pueblo, una cultura. Quito: Ediciones Libri
Mundi, 1982. 129 p.
Also published in English as: Ecuador, a Land, a People, a Culture; and in German as:
Ecuador, ein Land, ein Volk, eine Kultur.
7286. Eichler, Arturo. N ieve y selva en Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Bruno Moritz, 1952. 131 p.
Mountains and rainforests of Ecuador circa 1950 in prose and in 191 black and white plates.
Includes photographic views of damages suffered during as a result of the earthquake of 1949.
Also published in English as: Ecuador, Snow Peaks and Jungle. New York: Crowell, 1955. 216 p.
7287. Elementos bsicos para la planificacin de los recursos hdricos en el Ecuador, Ministerio de
Agricultura y Ganadera, Programa Nacional de Regionalizacin Agraria; Office de la recherche
The Presidents reaction to Churchs not altogether favorable but generally accurate account
(item 7262).
7298. T he Forests of Western and Central Ecuador, L.R. Holdridge [et al.]. Washington, D.C.:
U.S. Forest Service, 1947. 134 p.
7299. Franck, Harry A. Vagabonding down the A ndes: Being the N arrative of a Journey, Chiefly
A foot, from Panama to Buenos A ires. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1917. xi, 612 p.
The author spent four years in South America, including six months in Ecuador, on which
see chapters 6-8 (p. 127-208).
7300. Franklin, Albert B. Ecuador, Portrait of a People, lst ed. Garden City: Doubleday
Doran, 1943. vii, 326 p.
The country and its inhabitants circa 1940. Also published in Spanish as: Ecuador, retrato de
un pueblo. Buenos Aires: Claridad, 1945. 348 p. And: Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional,
1984. 351 p.
7301. Gartelmann, Karl Dieter. Ecuador, 3 ed. Quito: Impr. Mariscal, 1979. 127 p.
Chiefly ill.
Primarily a picture book. The cursory text is in Spanish, English, and German.
7302. Gentry, Alwyn. Sumario de patrones fitogeogrficos neotropicales y sus
implicaciones para la conservacin en el Ecuador, Cultura, 8:24a (ene./abr. 1986), 401-420.
7303. Gmez E., Nelson. A tlas del Ecuador: geografa y economa, 3 ed. Quito: Edit.
Ediguas, 1994. 114 p.
7304. Gmez E., Nelson. Gua turstica del Ecuador. Quito: Ediguas, 1994. 112 p., [12]
leaves of color maps (11 folded).
A useful pocket guide and atlas.
Also published in English as: T he Pocket Guide to Ecuador.
7305. Gondard, Pierre. Cambios histricos en el aprovechamiento del medio natural
ecuatoriano: papel de la demanda social, Cultura, 8:24 (ene./abr. 1986), 567-577.
Explores changes in the utilization of the environment and the concurrent transformation of
agricultural areas in Ecuador from prehistoric times through the present.
7306. Gondard, Pierre. Inventario y cartografa del uso actual del suelo en los A ndes
ecuatorianos. Quito: PRONAREG : ORSTOM, 1984. v, 92 p.
7307. Gosselman, Carl August. Informes sobre los estados sudamericanos en los aos de 1837 y
1838, edicin, introduccin y notas por Magnus Mrner, traduccin del sueco por Ernesto
Dethorney. Stockholm: Biblioteca e Instituto de Estudios Ibero-Americanos de la Escuela de
Ciencias Econmicas, 1962. 172 p.
See p. 89-111 for authors report on the population and economy of the Repblica del
Ecuador. The latter has been reprinted with a Nota introductoria by Julio Oleas Montalvo
in: Revista ecuatoriana de historia econmica, 4:8 (1990), 169-196. And the work as a whole:
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994.
7308. Gran gua de la Repblica del Ecuador: (agricultura, comercio, industrias, profesiones).
Quito: Tip. Fernndez, 1936. 220 p.
A commercial directory.
7309. Griffin, Keith B. Systems of Labour Control and Rural Poverty in Ecuador, in his:
Land Concentration and Rural Poverty (New York, Holmes & Meier, 1976), p 172-220, 287-291.
As of the late 1990s, Griffins conclusions remained lamentably valid: that the agricultural
policies of the Ecuadorian government are of technocratic inspiration with little likelihood of
improving the economic well-being of the majority of the rural population.
7310. Grijalva, Agustn. Datos bsicos de la realidad nacional, 1 ed. Quito: Corporacin
Editora Nacional, 1994. 224 p.
7311. Grijalba y Lpez Falcn, Alfonso R. de. Por tierras colombianas: impresiones y apuntes
de la Repblica del Ecuador, 1924-1929. Guayaquil: Tip. y de la Sociedad Filantrpica del
Guayas, [1930?]. xi, 178 p.
The impressions of a member of the titled nobility of Spain.
7312. Grubb, Kenneth G. A mazon and A ndes. London: Methuen, 1930. xiii, 296 p.
7313. Gutersohn, Heinrich. Ecuador, Peru, Bolivien. Bern: Kummerly & Frey, 1948. vi,
126 p.
7314. Hall, Minard L. El volcanismo en el Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Panamericano de
Geografa e Historia, Seccin Nacional del Ecuador, 1977. 120 p.
7315. Hammen, Thomas van der. Historia de la vegetacin y del clima en la regin
norandina, Cultura, 8:24a (ene./abr. 1986), 203-209.
7316. Hardoy, F. Report on a Visit to the Riverine Belt of Ecuador. Turrialba, Costa Rica:
Inter-American Institute of Agricultural Sciences, 1960. 103 p.
7317. Hassaurek, Friedrich. Four Years A mong Spanish-A mericans. New York: Hurd and
Houghton, 1867. x, 401 p.
A classic account. Hassaurek was minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the
United States during Garca Morenos first presidency. Also published in abridgement as: Four
Years A mong the Ecuadorians, edited and with an introduction by C. Harvey Gardiner.
Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1967. In German as: Vier Jahre unter den
Spanisch-A merikanern. Dresden: W. Baensch, 1887. xv, 386 p. In Spanish as: Cuatro aos entre
los ecuatorianos. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1993. 436 p.
7318. Hastenrath, Stefan. T he Glaciation of the Ecuadorian A ndes. Rotterdam: Balkema,
1981. xiv, 159 p.
7319. Hegen, Edmund Edward. Highways into the Upper A mazon Basin: Pioneer Lands in
Southern Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1966. 168 p.
Delineates past attempts to penetrate into the Upper Amazon Basin and investigates
present processes of migration into the Basin.
7320. Hess, Carmen G. Moving Up-Moving Down: Agropastoral Land Use Patterns in
the Ecuadorian Pramos, Mountain Research and Development, 10:4 (Nov. 1990), 333-342.
Argues that population pressure has triggered an upward expansion of agropastoralism into
the pramos.
7321. Hintermann, Heinrich. Im Reiche des Sonnengotes: Reise durch Ecuador und das stliche
Peru. Zrich: Druck und Verlag Mller Werder & Cia., 1927. 319 p.
A travel account.
7322. Holinski, Alexandre. LEquateur: scenes de la vie sud-americanine. Paris: Amyot, 1861.
250 p.
Ecuador in the 1850s. A classic account. Reprinted by the same publisher in 1876.
7323. Humboldt, Alexander von. Personal N arrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of
the N ew Continent during the Years 1799-1804, translated from the French by Helen Maria
Williams. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1815. 5 v.
Humboldt spent over a year in Ecuador (1801-1802), usually accompanied by the quiteo
Carlos Montfar as well as by his compatriot and traveling companion Aim Jacques Alesandre
Bonpland (1773-1858). For the complete as well as the original edition thereof see: Voyage aux
rgions quinoxiales du N ouveau Continent: fait en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804 par A l.
de Humboldt et A . Bonpland. Paris: Librairie grecque-latine-allemande, 1816-1831. 13 v. Also
published in Spanish in multiple editions: e.g., Viaje a las regiones equinocciales del nuevo
continente hecho en 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803, y 1804, 2a ed. Caracas: Ediciones del
Ministerio de Educacin, Direccin de Cultura y Bellas Artes, 1956; 5 v.
7324. Humboldt, Alexander von. Sites des cordilleres et monuments des peuples indigenes de
lA mrique. Paris: Grecque-Latine-Allemande, 1816. 531 p.
Also published in Spanish as: Sitios de las cordilleras. Madrid: Impr. y Librera de Gaspar,
1878. viii, 439 p. And as: Vistas de las cordilleras y monumentos de los pueblos indgenas de
A mrica, prlogo de Charles Minguet y Jean-Paul Duviols; introduccin, traduccin y notas de
Jaime Labastida; notas de Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Mercedes Olivera y Cayetano Reyes.
Mxico, D.F.: Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1995. 2 v. See especially plates X, XVI-XX, XXIV,
XXV, XXXI, XLII, LI, LXI-LXIII, and corresponding text for various views and descriptions of
the Andes of Ecuador and the ruins of Ingapirca and Callo.
7325. Impacto ambiental de la minera en cuatro areas protegidas del Ecuador, director, Carlos
Luzuriaga Cisneros; participantes, Arturo Hernndez [et al.]. Quito: Fundacin Natura, 1993.
88 p.
7326. Indice toponmico de la Repblica del Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Geogrfico Militar,
1978-. <8> v.
7327. Jameson, William. Excursion Made from Quito to the River Napo, January to May,
1857, Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 28 (1858), 337-349.
7328. Jaramillo de Dvila, Violeta. A tlas geogrfico del Ecuador, 2 ed. Quito: Instituto
Geogrfico Militar, 1983. 80 p.
7329. Juan, Jorge; and Antonio de Ulloa. Dissertacin histrica, y geogrphica sobre el
meridiano de demarcacin entre los dominios de Espaa, y Portugal, y los parages por donde passa en la
A mrica Meridional: conforme a los tratados, y derechos de cada estado, y las mas seguras, y modernas
observaciones. Madrid: Impr. de A. Marn, 1749. vii, 75 p.
Also published in a photofacsimile reprint: Madrid: Instituto Histrico de Marina, 1972.
7330. Juan, Jorge; and Antonio de Ulloa. Epoca, gnesis y texto de las N oticias secretas de
A mrica, de Jorge Juan y A ntonio de Ulloa. Madrid: Instituto Gonzalo Fernndez de Oviedo,
1985. 2 v.
Vol. 1 is a 440 p. study of El viaje a A mrica (1735-1745), de los tenientes de navo Jorge Juan y
A ntonio de Ulloa, y sus consecuencias literarias by Luis J. Ramos Gmez, and vol. 2 is an Edicin
anotada del texto original de las Noticias secretas de Amrica. The Ramos Gmez edition of the
N oticias secretas should be preferred to the David Barry version (Londrs: Impr. de R. Taylor,
1826; xiii, 707 p.)--the most recent edition (a photofacsimile) of which as of July 1997 appeared
to have been that of Madrid: Edit. Turner, 1982 [2 v.]--and to the English version, Discourse and
Political Reflections on the Kingdoms of Peru ..., edited and with an introduction by John J.
TePaske (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978). Barry is supposed to have rewritten
Juan and Ulloa for political reasons, according to some scholars, and TePaske excluded several
of the chapters on Ecuador. Ramos Gmez version was also published as: N oticias secretas de
A mrica (Madrid: Historia 16, 1991).
7331. Juan, Jorge; and Antonio de Ulloa. Observaciones astronmicas y fsicas hechas de orden
de S. Mag. en los reinos del Per ..., introduccin y edicin de Jos P. Merino Navarro y Miguel
M. Rodrguez San Vicente. Madrid: Fundacin Universitaria Espaola, 1978. xxviii, 396 p.
Photofacsimile edition of the original edition: Madrid: Impreso de orden del Rey Nuestro
Seor por Juan de Ziga,1748 [i.e., 1749]). The fifth vol. of the Relacin histrica del viaje a la
A mrica Meridional (item 7332). Usually cited separately. Not included in the English
translation.
7332. Juan, Jorge; and Antonio de Ulloa . Relacin histrica del viaje a la A mrica Meridional
hecho de orden de S.M. para medir algunos grados de meridiano terrestre ..., introduccin y edicin
de Jos P. Merino Navarro y Miguel M. Rodrguez San Vicente. Madrid: Fundacin
Universitaria Espaola, 1978. 4 v. in 2.
Photofacsimile of the original edition: Madrid: Antonio Marn, 1748 [i.e., 1749]). It will be
recalled that Juan and Ulloa (not brothers) were the Spanish members of the geodesic or earth
measuring expedition of 1735, and that they spent eleven years altogether in the future Ecuador
as well as in Peru proper. Published in English as: A Voyage to South A merica (London, 1758), of
which there were eight editions and a modern abridgement by Irving A. Leonard (New York,
1964). Also published in Dutch, French, and German, for the bibliographic particulars of which
see: Francisco de Solano, A ntonio de Ulloa y la N ueva Espaa, 1 ed. (Mxico: Universidad
Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, 1979), lxxxv-cvii.
7340. La Condamine, Charles Marie de. Viaje a la A mrica Meridional por el Ro de las
A mazonas; Estudio sobre la quina, edicin y presentacin de Antonio Lafuente y Eduardo Estrella,
2 . ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1993. 223 p.
Reprints: Extracto del diario de observaciones hechas en el viaje de la Provincia de Quito al Par por
el Ro de las A mazonas y del Par a Cayena, Surinam y A msterdam ... (Amsterdam: Imprenta de
Joan Catuffe, 1745; [4], 121 p.), and publishes in facsimile: Descripcin del arbol de la quina
hecha en 1737, traducida ... y aumentada ... por Sebastin Josef Lpez Ruiz, the original of
which is in the Archivo del Real Jardn Botnico in Madrid. See also item 1375.
7341. Lanks, Herbert C. By Pan A merican Highway through South A merica. New York:
Appleton-Century, 1942. xii, 205 p.
7342. Lara, Dario. Viaje de Gabriel Lafond de Lurcy de Guayaquil a Quito (1826),
Cultura, 9:26 (set./dic. 1986), 263-283.
7343. Lara, Daro. Viajeros franceses al Ecuador en el siglo XIX. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1972. 206 p.
Nominally vol. 1. The proffered vol. 2, however, was never published. Discourses on known
and previously unknown French travelers of the nineteenth century, especially the Viscount
Ren-Maurice de Kerret, the painter Ernest Charton, and the sea captain Eugne Souville. Also
published in a: 2 ed. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1987. 178 p. Unfortunately the
projected vol. 2 never appeared, but see also item 3339.
7344. Larrea, Fernando; and Patricio Mena. La nueva faz del ambiente: manual de ecologa
para comunicaciones sociales. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales:
Ministerio de Energa y Minas, Subsecretara de Medio Ambiente, 1992. 98 p.
7345. Larrea Donoso, Galo. Patrimonio natural y cultural ecuatoriano. Quito: Banco Central
del Ecuador, 1982. 456 p.
7346. Lasso, Raphael V. T he Wonderland Ecuador, limited ed. New York: Alpha-Ecuador
Publications, 1944. xiv, 296 p.
Primarily a delineation of the political and territorial organization of the country and of
economic conditions as of the early 1940s. Nowadays a bibliographic curiosity but important at
the time of its publication because the literature on Ecuador in English was then meager.
7347. Lee, Joseph. Beautiful Ecuador, N ational Geographic Magazine, 18:2 (Feb. 1907), 8191.
7348. Lhevinne, Isadore. T he Enchanted Jungle. New York: Coward-McCann, 1933. 310 p.
A musicians search for primitive melodies from Esmeraldas through Jibaro country.
7349. Lisboa, Miguel Mara. Relao de uma viagem a Venezuela, N ova Granada e Equador.
Brusells: A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven e Cie., 1866. 393 p.
Lisboa, a Brazilian diplomat, visited Ecuador in 1853. Also published in Spanish as: 1)
Relacin de un viaje a Venezuela, N ueva Granada y Ecuador. Caracas: Ediciones de la Presidencia
de la Repblica, 1954. 442 p.; 2) 2 ed. en espaol (nueva traduccin). Bogot: Fondo Cultural
Cafetero, 1984. 335 p.; and 3) Relacin de un viaje al Ecuador en 1853. Cuenca: Instituto Azuayo
de Folklore, 1990. (Descripciones del Ecuador de antao; v. 1)
7350. Living in Ecuador, Ecuadorian-American Chamber of Commerce. Quito: Editora Luz
de Amrica, 1989. 278 p.
Although long since out-of-date as a guide to residency for foreigners, nonetheless, a useful
source of information on living conditions in the country, especially in the primary cities, during
the second half of the 1980s.
7351. Lizrraga, Reginaldo de. Descripcin breve de toda la tierra del Per, Tucumn, Ro de la
Plata y Chile . Madrid: Ediciones Atlas, 1968. p. 1-211. (Biblioteca de autores espaoles desde
la formacin del lenguaje hasta nuestros das [continuacin]; t. 216).
Lizrraga (1545-1615) spent some time in and around Quito as an adolescent and as an adult.
A member of the Dominican order, he traveled extensively throughout the Perus. For
Lizrragas impressions of Quito, the Province of Quijos, Riobamba, Tomebamba (the future
Cuenca), and Loja, see especially p. 51-55. Published together with Toribio de Ortigueras
Jornada del Ro Maran (item 6514).
7352. Loch. Erskine E. Fever, Famine and Gold: T he Dramatic Story of the A dventures and
Discoveries of the A ndes-A mazon Expedition in the Unchartered Vastness of a Lost World in the
Llanganatis Mountains. New York: G.P. Putnams Sons, 1938. xiv, 257 p.
The memoirs of a treasure hunter--in this case of a retired English army officer--who led an
expedition into the Llanganati area (1935-1937) in search of fabled lost treasure of the Incas.
7353. Lpez, Felicsimo. A tlas geogrfico del Ecuador: arreglado segn la carta del Dr. Teodoro
Wolf. New York: American Bank Note Company, 1907. [43] p. Chiefly maps.
The first atlas of Ecuador.
7354. Lpez Cordovez, Luis A. Estudio preliminar de las zonas agrcolas del Ecuador. Quito:
Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1961. 149 p.
7355. Lourie, Peter. Sweat of the Sun, Tears of the Moon: A Chronicle of an Incan Treasure.
New York: Atheneum Pubs., 1991. 307 p.
Not a work about Ecuador per se but a tale replete with the usual myths and half truths about
the deluded few, including the author, who continue to search for Indian gold in the Llanganati
Mountains.
7356. Llerena, Jos Alfredo. Ecuador, perfil de su progreso: notas de geografa econmica.
Quito: Edit. Universitaria, 1960. 130 p.
7357. Llorente Vzquez, Manuel. Cuadros americanos: Venezuela, Brasil, California,
Guatemala, Montevideo y Ecuador. Madrid: F. Fe, 1891. xxiii, 432 p.
7358. MacFarlane, Thomas. To T he A ndes, Being a Sketch of a Trip to South A merica: With
Observations on the Way on the Family, the Church and the State. Toronto: Belford Brothers, 1877.
xiii, 174 p.
7370. Mellet, Jullien. Voyage dans lA mrique Mridionale ... Paris: Impr. Prosper Noubel,
1823. 291 p.
The impressions of a French commercial agent in the early nineteenth century. Includes a
substantial section on Ecuador. Also published in Spanish as: Viajes por el interior de la A mrica
meridional, 1808-1820. Santiago de Chile: Edit. del Pacfico, 1959. 289 p.
7371. Mendoza, Luis Anbal. Geo-economa del Ecuador, nueva ed., aum. y corr. Guayaquil:
Nueva Luz, 1982. 346 p.
7372. Mera, Juan Len. Catecismo de geografa de la Repblica del Ecuador, 2 ed., corr. y aum.
notablemente, y hecha con autorizacin del ... Supremo Gobierno. Guayaquil: Impr. de La
Nacin, 1884. 131 p.
Adopted as a grade school text by the national government in 1884, now a significant source
as to the state of the country in the early 1880s.
7373. Meyer, Hans. In den Hoch-A nden von Ecuador: Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, etc.: Reisen und
Studien. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 1907. 551 p. + 1 atlas.
The atlas of 43 exceptionally high quality cromolithographic plates, mostly in color, consists
almost entirely of spectacular views of mountain peaks and other alpine scenes of Ecuador. The
atlas also appeared in French: Les hautes A ndes de lEquateur: Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, etc.: atlas et
texte (Paris: A. Challamel, 1908). But only the text seems to have been published in Spanish as:
En los altos A ndes del Ecuador: viajes y estudios. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1940.
And in a 2 ed. en espaol or modern reprint: Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1993. 747 p.
7374. Michaux, Henri. Ecuador, journal de voyage. Paris: Gallimard, 1929. 196 p.
Ecuador in 1928. Also: Nouv. ed., rev. et corr. Paris: Gallimard, 1968. 188 p. Eventually
published in English as: Ecuador, A Travel Journal, translated by Robin Magowan. London:
Peter Owen, 1970; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970. 132 p.
7375. Miller, Eilif V. Ecuadorean Soils and Some of Their Fertility Properties. 1948. 316
leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University.
7376. Miller, Tom. T he Panama Hat Trail: A Journey from South A merica, 1st ed. New York:
Morrow, 1986. 271 p.
Some things remain as they were. The manufacture and sale of straw hats--although no
longer as widespread in the Provinces of Manab and Azuay as before--is a case in point as Miller
delightfully recounts.
7377. Momsen, Richard P., Jr. Precipitation Patters of West-Central Ecuador, Revista
geografica, 69 (dic. 1968), 91-105.
7378. Monnier, Marcel. Des A ndes au Par: Equateur, Prou, A mazone. Paris: Librairie
Plon, 1890. 439 p.
A travelogue of the authors 1886-1887 sojourn up the Andes from Guayaquil, across the
highlands, and down the Amazon to Par. Together with Johann Jakob von Tschudi
(1818-1889), Monnier also explored the Canelos region. The sections on Ecuador have been
published in Spanish as: Un relato indito sobre el Ecuador, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de
Historia, 54:118 (jul./dic. 1971), 337-349; 55:119 (ene./jun. 1972), 129-134; 55:120 (jul./dic.
1972), 272-276; and Un relato indito sobre Guayaquil, Boletn de la A cademia N acional de
Historia, 53:116 (jul./dic. 1970), 172-192; 54:117 (ene./jun. 1971), 152-163.
7379. Montfar y Frasco, Juan Po. Razn que sobre el estado y gobernacin poltica y
militar de las provincias, ciudades, villas y lugares que contiene la jurisdiccin de la Real
Audiencia de Quito da ... (1754), Tres tratados de A mrica: siglo XVIII (Madrid: Libr. de
Victoriano Surez, 1894), p. 113-185.
A mid-eighteenth-century relacin geogrfica by the then President of the Audiencia, the I
Marqus de Selva Alegre.
7380. Moore, W. Robert. From Sea to Clouds in Ecuador, N ational Geographic, 80:6 (Dec.
1941), 717-740.
7381. Morales y Eloy, Juan. Ecuador, atlas histrico-geogrfico. Quito: Ministerio de
Relaciones Exteriores, 1942. 1 v.
7382. Morales y Morales, Joaqun. Gua comercial del Ecuador. Ao 1 (1908)-ao 2 (1909).
Quito: Tip. de la Escuela de Artes y Oficios, 1909-1910. 2 v.
7383. Moreyra Avellafuertes, Francisco de Paula. Viaje de Guayaquil a Quito en marzo de
1851, Mercurio peruano, ao 27, 38:305 (ago. 1952), 367-389.
7384. Muller, Richard. Geographical N otes on Ecuador. London: H.J. Ryman, [1929]. 23 p.
(Scientific Information for Travelers in Ecuador; 1).
7385. Murphy, Robert Cushman. Equatorial Vignettes: Impressions of the Coasts of Peru
and Ecuador, 1925, N atural History, 25:5 (Sept./Oct. 1925), 431-449.
Consists of observations of birds and fishermen.
7386. Murphy, Robert Cushman. The Littoral of Pacific Colombia and Ecuador,
Geographical Review, 29:1 (Jan. 1939), 1-33.
7387. Murphy, Robert Cushman. Oceanic and Climatic Phenomena Along the West
Coast of South America during 1925, Geographical Review, 16:1 (Jan. 1926), 26-54.
7388. Naranjo, Plutarco. Indice de la flora del Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1981-<1983>. <2> v.
This set appears to have been truncated; only vols. 1-2 are known to have been published.
7389. Navarro Andrade, Ulpiano. Geografa econmica del Ecuador: geografa aplicada para
colegios de bachillerato y colegios tcnicos. Quito: Edit. Santo Domingo, 1965-1966. 2 v.
A solid survey of the geography of the country, notwithstanding the title.
7390. Nesheim, Margaret. From the Hinterland of Ecuador to the Shores of Galapagos, 1st ed.
Smithtown, N.Y.: Exposition Press, 1981. xii, 154 p.
7391. Niles, Blair. Casual Wanderings in Ecuador. London: John Long, 1923. x, 249 p.
A lively account of Ecuador in the early 1920s, from a womans point of view. Also
published in Spanish as: Correras casuales en el Ecuador. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995. 225
p.
7392. Noticias puntuales de las posesiones y distancias de la ciudad de Quito, y de las
costas, ros, pueblos y caminos de las provincias de Esmeraldas: segn las observaciones de los
acadmicos de Pars, y de don Pedro Maldonado, Museo Histrico, 3:10/11 (ago./dic. 1951), 2136.
7393. Ochoa, Emilio; Washington Macas; and Jorge G. Marcos. Ecuador, perfil de sus
recursos costeros. Quito: Fundacin Pedro Vicente Maldonado, 1987. 258 p.
7394. Onffroy de Thoron, Enrique. A mrique quatoriale: son histoire pittoresque et politique,
sa gographie et ses richesses naturalles, son tat present et son avenir. Paris: Ve Jules Renouard ,
1866. 468 p.
A detailed account of mid-nineteenth-century Ecuador by a French engineer who spent nine
years in the country (1852-1861). Also published in Spanish as: A mrica ecuatorial: su historia
pintoresca y poltica, su geografa y sus riquezas naturales, su estado presente y porvenir, traduccin [e]
introduccin, Filoteo Samaniego. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1983. 2 v.
7395. Orellana, J. Gonzalo. Gua comercial geogrfica. Quito: Tip. de la Escuela de Artes y
Oficios, 1922. 1 v.
Comprende las Provincias de Pichincha, Len, Tungurahua, Chimborazo y Guayas. Only
vol. published.
7396. Orton, James. T he A ndes and the A mazon, or, A cross the Continent of South A merica,
3rd ed., rev. and enl. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1875. 645 p.
The results of two Smithsonian expeditions to Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru, written up for the
general public. On Ortons and his companionss impressions of Ecuador in the late 1860s, see
chaps. 1-15.
7397. Osculati, Gaetano. Esplorazione delle regioni equatoriali, lungo il N apo ed it fiume delle
A mazzoni: frammento di un viaggio fatto nelle due A meriche negli anni 1846-47-48. Torino: Il
Segnalibro, 1990. 50, 344 p.
Photofacsimile reprint con un saggio introduttivo di Alberto Guaraldo of the 2. ed. cor. ed
accresciuta. Originally published: Milano: Fratelli Centenari e Comp., 1854. Osculati was the
first Italian scientist to explore South America. Here within he recounts his journey from
Guayaquil, Ecuador to Belm, Brazil and his discoveries along the way.
7398. Paisajes del Ecuador: Coleccin Martnez del Fondo A udiovisual del A rchivo Histrico del
Banco Central del Ecuador, seleccin de fotografas y textos, Cosme Vsquez G. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador, 1984. 138 p. (Coleccin imgenes; no. 5).
Visual images of Ecuador in the early 1900s, reproduced from original photographic plates
made by the Martnez brothers (Augusto N., Luis A, the author of A la costa, and Nicols G.)
during their scientific outings.
7399. Parsons, James J. The Northern Andean Environment, Mountain Research and
Development, 2:3 (Aug. 1982), 253-262.
An introduction to the geography of the highlands of Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador.
7400. Patzelt, Erwin. Fauna del Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1989.
433 p.
7401. Patzelt, Erwin. Fauna, flora, indgenas en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Cromos, 1972. 58,
[19] p.
A picture book. Text in Spanish, German, and English.
7402. Patzelt, Erwin. Flora del Ecuador. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1985. 192 p.
7403. Paz Ayora, Vicente. A lmanaque del comercio ecuatoriano. Guayaquil, 1900. 176 p.
7404. Prez T., Aquiles R. Geografa del Ecuador, 2 ed. Quito: Edit. Gutenberg, 1940. 356
p.
7405. Prez y Gonzlez, Felipe. Impresiones de un viaje por el Ecuador: (por un viajero ciego).
Quito: Impr. de El Progreso, 1919. 180 p.
An account of an early-twentieth-century journey from Tulcn to Quito from a different
perspective. The author was visually impaired.
7406. Petrocokino, Ambrose. A long the A ndes: N otes of a Trip through Bolivia, Peru, and
Ecuador. London: Gay and Bird, 1903. viii, 147 p.
7407. Platt, Raye Roberts. Ecuador. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1956. 64 p.
7408. Popeoe, Wilson. Hunting New Fruits in Ecuador, N atural History, 24:4 (July 1924),
429-441.
7409. Pourrot, Pierre. Algunas consideraciones acerca de los fenmenos climticos
extremos observados en el Ecuador, Cultura, 8:24a (ene./abr. 1986), 257-272.
7410. Pritchett, George James. Explorations in Ecuador in the Years 1856 and 1857,
Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, 30 (1860), 65-75.
A report on the authors two year sojourn in the country. Includes a sketch map of his
explorations. See also Pritchetts Report ... of His Mission to the Republic of Ecuador. London:
Richard Clay, 1858. 36 p.
7411. Quevedo Coronel, Rafael. El Ecuador, pas de turismo y de convalescencia, El
Ecuador en cien aos de independencia (item 1926), vol. 1, p. 219-234.
7412. Rachowiecki, Rob. Ecuador & the Galpagos Islands : A Travel Survival Kit, 4th ed.
Hawthorn: Lonely Planet, 1997. 509 p.
As of July, 1997, the most comprehensive and utilitarian travel guide to Ecuador in English.
The first edition appeared in 1986, the second in 1989, and the third in 1992. There are the
usual historical errors, however, such as the depiction of the Barrio de las Peas in Guayaquil as
colonial when in fact the oldest buildings date from the late nineteenth century, the entire
neighborhood having been lost in the great fire of 1896, or the misidentification of several
neocolonial style buildings (constructed in the 1930s) in Cuenca as colonial period in origin.
7413. Rivera Villavicencio, Oswaldo. Ecuador, provincias y capitales: historia, geografa,
divisin poltica, recursos y comercio, turismo, folclor, valores humanos. Quito: Ministerio de
Educacin y Cultura, 1995. 416 p.
7414. Rodrguez Saltos, Roberto. La regin interandina ecuatoriana. Riobamba: Edit. Freire,
[1996]. 203 p.
A travel guide for Ecuadorian nationals and other Spanish readers.
7415. Romero, Emilio. Por el norte: Ecuador. Lima: J. Meja Baca & P.L. Villanueva, 1954.
163 p.
A Peruvian scholars not altogether favorable impressions. Garnered while he was
embassador to Ecuador.
7416. Russell, William Richard. T he Bolivar Countries: Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela. New
York: Coward-McCann, 1949. xii, 308 p.
A travel guide from the late 1940s.
7417. Salazar, Francisco Javier. Rasgos descriptivos de varias poblaciones y sitios de la Repblica
del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Impr. Merino, 1871. 26 p.
7418. Samaniego Salazar, Filoteno. Ecuador, un mundo verde junto al sol. Boulogne, France:
Editions Delroisse, 1985. 2 v.
Also published in English as: Ecuador, a Fertile Land Blessed by the Sun (Boulogne, France:
Editions Delroisse, 1985; 2 v.); and in French as: Equateur, terre fertile sous le soleil (Boulogne,
France: Editions Delroisse, 1985; 2 v.).
7419. Sampedro V., Francisco. A tlas geogrfico del Ecuador SA M: con las bsicas nociones
histricas de la nacionalidad. Quito: Grficas Claridad, 1979. 1 atlas (87 p.).
Available in several editions.
7420. Sampedro V., Francisco. A tlas histrico geogrfico del Ecuador. Mxico: Edicin SAM,
1960. 78 p.
7421. Sarmiento, Alberto. Refutacin al libro del embajador peruano Emilio Romero, intitulado
Por el norte, Ecuador. [Quito?: s.n.], 1957. 161 p.
Refutes item 7415.
7422. Sassen, Georgette. Ponchos, zhanzas y bananos. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1960.
227 p.
7423. Sauer, Walther. Geologa del Ecuador. Quito: Tall. Grf. del Ministerio de Educacin,
1965. 383 p.
7424. Seedorff Pedersen, Hans Hartvig Otto. To tredje, Eldorado! Copenhaven: Jespersen
og Pios, 1929. 225 p.
the Coast, and the Galpagos. Also reviews the degradation of farmlands and the misallocation
of water resources throughout the country. As a historian, however, I would have preferred a
more detailed and less prescriptive approach.
7439. Southgate, Douglas DeWitt; and Morris D. Whitaker. Promoting Resource
Degradation in Latin America: Tropical Deforestation, Soil Erosion, and Coastal Ecosystem
Disturbance in Ecuador, Economic Development and Cultural Change, 40:4 (July 1992), 787-807.
A preview of item 7438. Examines negative impact of over development on the
environment, especially in the Oriente and on the coast.
7440. Southgate, Douglas DeWitt; and Robert Macke. The Downstream Benefits of Soil
Conservation in Third World Hydroelectric Watersheds, Land Economics, 65:1 (Feb. 1989), 3848.
Estimates the major downstream benefits of erosion control in the Paute hydroelectric
watershed, then the countrys principal source of hydroelectric power.
7441. Southgate, Douglas DeWitt; Rodrigo Sierra; and Lawrence A. Brown. The Causes of
Tropical Deforestation in Ecuador: A Statistical Analysis, World Development, 19:9 (Sept.
1991), p. 1145-1151.
7442. Spruce, Richard. N otes of a Botanist on the A mazon and the A ndes. London:
Macmillan, 1908. 2 v.
Detailed narrative of Spruces and Alfred Russel Wallaces botanical explorations between
1849 and 1864. Also published in an abridged version in Spanish: N otas de un botnico sobre el
A mazonas y los A ndes. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1942. 422 p. And in a
complete version as: N otas de un botnico sobre el A mazonas y los A ndes: apuntes de los viajes por el
A mazonas y sus tributarios, el Trombetas, Ro N egro, Usups, Casiquiari, Pacimoni, Huallaga y
Pastaza: tambin por las cataratas del Orinoco, a lo largo de la cordillera de los A ndes ecuatorianos y
peruanos y por las costas del Pacfico durante los aos 1849-1864, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1996. xlviii, 749 p.
See also Spruces On the Mountains of Llanganati, in the Eastern Cordillera of the
Quitonian Andes, Illustrated in a Map Constructed by the Late Atanasio Guzman, Journal of
the Royal Geographical Society, 31 (1861), 163-184.
7443. Stabler, Jordan H. Travels in Ecuador, T he Geographical Journal, 50:4 (Oct. 1917),
241-254.
7444. Stadel, Christoph. Environmental Stress and Sustainable Rural Development in the
Tropical Andes, Mountain Research and Development, 11:3 (Aug. 1991), 213-223.
7445. Stevenson, William Bennet. A Historical and Descriptive N arrative of Twenty Years
Residence in South A merica. London: Hurst, Robinson and Co., 1825-1827. 3 v.
Stevenson was private secretary to President Ruiz de Castilla and an eyewitness to the events
of 1809. Also published in French as: Relation historique et description dun sejour de vingt ans dans
lA merique du Sud. Paris: A.J. Kilian, 1826. 3 v.; and as: Voyage en A raucanie, au Chili, au Perou
et dans la Colombie ... Paris: Leroie, 1832. 3 v. And in Spanish as: N arracin histrica y
7465. Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang. Ecuador, the Unknown: Two and a Half Years Travels
in the Republic of Ecuador and Galpagos Islands. New York: Oxford University Press, 1940. 296.
A popular account by a naturalist who did not hesitate to set himself up as an authority on
everything regarding Ecuador. His prose and his facts in this and his other works on Ecuador
leave something to be desired, however.
7466. Weaks, Dan. Portraits of Ecuador, Radical History Review, 27 (1983), 99-109.
Published ten photographs of Indians and mestizos of the highlands, sans text or meaningful
captions.
7467. Wry, Paul. N otes sur la Rpublique de lEquateur et sur la ville de Guayaquil, capitale du
commerce. Paris: Impr. de M. Picard, 1900. 67 p.
There are copies of this little known work in the Bibliothque Nationale (Paris) and in the
British Library (London). It is not known to be held by any library in the United States or in
Ecuador, however. The section on Guayaquil was reprinted as: La ville de Guayaquil, capitale du
commerce de la Rpublique de lEquateur (A mrique du Sud). Paris: Impr. de Chaix, 1906. 32 p.
7468. Whymper, Edward. Supplementary A ppendix to Travels amongst the Great A ndes of the
Equator. London: John Murray, 1891. xxii, 147 p.
With contributions by H.P. Bates et al. No known reprint or translation.
7469. Whymper, Edward. Travels amongst the Great A ndes of the Equator. New York:
Charles Scribners Sons, 1891; London: John Murray, 1892. xxiv, 456 p.
Whymper was the first European to climb Mt. Chimborazo (1880). It has been attempted
before, to no avail, by several others, including Humboldt in 1802 and Boussingault in 1831.
Whymper also contributed significantly to scientific knowledge of this and several others of the
high peaks of the country. See also the reprint: new ed. with introduction and photographs by
Loren McIntyre. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, 1987. Also published in Spanish:
Entre los altos A ndes del Ecuador: relaciones de viaje, versin espaola de C.O. Bustamante. Quito:
Impr. y Encuad. Nacionales, 1921. And as: Viajes a travs de los majestuosos A ndes del Ecuador, 2
ed. en espaol. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 448 p.
7470. Wolf, Theodor. Geografa y geologa del Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1975. 798 p.
A reprint with additional materials. Originally published: Leipzig: Tip. de F.A. Brockhaus,
1892. xii, 671 p. The 1975 edition includes 61 pages of added notes, updating Wolf. The
original edition was also published in English as: Geography and Geology of Ecuador. Toronto:
Grand and Troy, 1933. 684 p. An important source of demographic, economic, and social data
for the late nineteenth-century, given Wolfs interest in human geography, as well as the most
detailed geography of the country until the Geografa bsica del Ecuador (item 581) began to
appear. There is also a 3 ed (Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1992) but I do not know if
it is a reprint of the original edition or of the updated edition of 1975.
7471. Wolf, Theodor. Viajes cientficos por la Repblica del Ecuador. Guayaquil: Impr. del
Comercio, 1879. 3 v. in 1.
Contents: Relacin de un viaje geognstico por la Provincia de Loja (57 p.); Relacin de un viaje
geognstico por la Provincia del A zuay (78 p.); Memoria sobre la geografa y geologa de la Provincia de
Esmeraldas( 87 p.).
7472. Wright, R. A Brief Sketch of the Lands and Mines of the Republic of Ecuador. London,
1838. 23 p.
7473. Zahn, John Augustine. A long the A ndes and down the A mazon. New York: D.
Appleton and Company, 1912. xx, 542 p.
Published under the pseudonym: H.J. Mozans.
De tal manera ni el sistema poltico ni las FFAA en este perodo [1964-1975] son capaces de
viabilizar y organizar las transformaciones institucionales, sociales y econmicas que se estn
procesando a nivel de la sociedad civil y el Estado. -- Jos Snchez-Parga.
The preceding quotation epitomizes so much of what is wrong with some of the social
scientific literature on Ecuador. Although the state is an institution and therefore an entity, it
does not exist independently of the individuals and groups who constitute the government.
Inasmuch as the Armed Forces together with their civilian advisers and supporters were the
government between 1972 and 1979, it is absurd to state that they were incapable of vitalizing
and organizing institutional, social, and economic transformations being processed at the level
of civilian society and the state. Some significant transformations were brought about by the
military governments of Rodrguez Lara and the Consejo Supremo de Gobierno, not that I
believe any state to be as pervasive and powerful as its spin doctors would have us believe.
By now the reader is probably fully cognizant of my biases. I believe that scholars should do
their homework, that they should write up the results of their investigations in intelligible
language, and that they should define their terms. I also believe that hypotheses, models,
paradigms, and theories should be based on the realities of the place, period, and persons
(including groups and institutions) being studied. In other words, that facts should not be
made to fit preconceived, not so much incorrect per se as not necessarily appropriate,
frameworks.
Fortunately much of the social scientific literature of the late twentieth century is valid and
vibrant:
As an economist with extensive field experience, especially among the rural poor, I already
knew . . . that economics as traditionally professed is too mechanistic to be of any use in the
evaluation and interpretation of the problems that affect peasant communities living largely at
subsistence levels. Economics has evolved into a selective discipline, leaving many elements
and processes with a direct influence on change and development outside its range of
preoccupations. History and some ideologies also suffer from and are limited by similar
rigidities. -- Manfred A. Max-Neef.
7485. Anderson, Joan B. Economic Policy A lternatives for the Latin A merican Crisis. New
York: Taylor and Francis, 1990. x, 109 p.
An essay in econometrics, using post-World War II Ecuador as an example.
See also Andersons Ecuador, T he Political Economy of Latin A merica in the Postwar Period,
edited by Laura Randall (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997), p. 232-274, a much more
intelligible and useful work than item 7485, at least from the point of view of a historian.
Unfortunately, both works are marred by a less than adequate grasp of the past as opposed to
the recent present of the country.
7486. Andrade Noboa, Jorge. En la lucha por el crudo. Quito: Edit. Voluntad, 1981. 232 p.
7487. A o 2000: el desarrollo industrial ecuatoriano a fines del presente siglo: polticas y
mecanismo de accin, 3 ed. Quito: CENDES, 1988. 4 v.
Contents: t.1, Sntesis del estudio; t. 2, Diagnstico de la industria ecuatoriana, 1977-1986;
Estadsticas e indices sobre la economa, industria y sector externo ecuatoriano; t. 3, La Imagen de un
Ecuador 2000; La Economa ecuatoriana en el futuro e identificacin de sus probables escenarios; t. 4,
Una Poltica tecnolgica industrial; Una Poltica para promover la exportacin de manufacturas
ecuatorianas; Polticas para la industrializacin: marco legal e institucional.
7488. Arboleda, Mara. La agroindustria en el Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Latinoamericano de
Investigaciones Sociales, 1985. 71 p.
7489. Archetti, Eduardo P.; and Kristi Anne Stlen Burguesa rural y campesinado en la
sierra ecuatoriana, Cahiers du monde hispanique et luso-brsilien (Caravelle), 34 (1980), 57-82.
Includes a case study of the Canton of Meja in the Province of Pichincha.
7490. Arzaga, Alfredo; and Santiago Bayas. El sistema financiero ecuatoriano en los
ochenta, A horro y asignacin de recursos financieros: experiencias latinoamericanas: Bolivia,
Colombia, Ecuador, Per, Uruguay, Venezuela, edicin de Gnther Held y Raquel Szalachaman,
1 ed. (Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, 1990), p. 291-317.
7491. Arosemena, Guillermo. La revitalizacin de la economa ecuatoriana: los hechos, las
causas, los males y las soluciones. Guayaquil: G. Arosemena, 1993. 275 p.
Examines obstacles to development since World War II and suggests alternative solutions for
raising the standard of living for a larger percentage of the population.
7492. T he A rtisan Community in Ecuadors Modernizing Economy, Frank L. Turner [et al.].
Menlo Park: Stanford Research Institute, 1963. xii, 285 p.
Prepared for the Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, Government
of Ecuador.
7493. Aspiazu Carbo, Miguel. Organizacin agrcola en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Impr. de la
Universidad, 1935. 53 p.
7494. Bez, Ren. Dialctica de la economa ecuatoriana, 2 ed. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1982. 151 p.
7495 Bez, Ren. Ecuador, crisis y viabilidad, 2 ed. Quito: Edit. A. Crespo Encalada, 1984.
106 p.
7496. Bez, Ren. Ecuador, petroleo, capitalismo y dependencia. Quito: Pontificia
Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas, [1979?]. 67 p.
7497. Baldivia, Jos. A juste estructural en los A ndes: impactos sociales y desarrollo. Quito:
Ediciones Abya-Yala [para el] Centro Canadiense de Estudios y de Cooperacin InternacionalAndes, 1993. 178 p.
7498. El Banano en el Ecuador: transnacionales, modernizacin y subdesarrollo, Carlos Larrea
M. (editor), Malva Espinosa y Paola Sylva Charvet. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional,
1987. 285 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 16)
Includes a chapter on the history of banana production and trade in Ecuador: Auge y crisis
de la produccin bananera: 1948-1976 (p. 37-63) by Carlos Larrea Maldonado.
7499. Banco Central del Ecuador. Problemas econmicos ecuatorianos: opinin del Banco
Central. Quito: El Banco, 1982. 33 p.
7500. Banco Central del Ecuador. Programa de estabilizacin econmico y social. Quito: El
Banco, 1982. 43 p.
7501. Banda, Francisco. Posibilidades agro-econmicas del Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Nacional,
1937. 416 p.
7502. Barfod, Anders S.; B. Bergmann; and H.B. Pedersen. The Vegetable Ivory Industry:
Surviving and Doing Well in Ecuador, Economic Botany, 44:3 (July/Sept. 1990), 293-300.
7503. Barsky, Osvaldo. A cumulacin campesina en el Ecuador: los productores de papa del
Carchi. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Quito, 1984. 136 p.
7504. Barsky, Osvaldo. La reforma agraria ecuatoriana. Quito: Corporacin Editora
Nacional, 1984. 406 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 3).
There is also a: 2 ed. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1988.
7505. Barsky, Osvaldo; and Gustavo Cosse. Tecnologa y cambio social: las haciendas lecheras
del Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, 1981. 199 p.
7506. Baydas, Mayada M.; Richard L. Meyer; and Nelson Aguilera-Alfred. Credit
Rationing in Small-Scale Enterprises: Special Microenterprise Programmes in Ecuador, T he
Journal of Development Studies, 31:2 (Dec. 1994), 279-309.
Examines factors used to ration--some would maintain to restrict-- credit to small
entrepreneurs. Employs a supply and demand model.
7507. Beaglehole, E. Technical Assistance Mission in the Andes, International Labour
Review, 67: 3 (June 1953), 520-534.
7508. Bebbington, Anthony. Farmer Organizations in Ecuador: Contributions to Farmer First
Research and Development. London: International Institute for Environment and Development,
1991. 15 p.
7521. Bolaos Manzo, Bolvar. Los mecanismos de la economa nacional, 1979-1989. [Quito?:
s.n., 1989]. 30 p.
7522. Bottomley, Anthony. Agricultural Employment Policy in Developing Countries:
The Case of Ecuador, Inter-A merican Economic A ffairs, 19:4 (Spring 1966), 53-79.
7523. Bottomley, Anthony. Imperfect Competition in the Industrialization of Ecuador,
Inter-A merican Economic A ffairs, 19:1 (Summer 1965), 83-94.
7524. Bottomley, Anthony. Planning in an Underutilization Economy: The Case of
Ecuador, T he Political Economy of Development: T heoretical and Empirical Contributions, edited by
Norman T. Uphoff and Warren F. Ilchman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972), p.
213-219.
7525. Brea, Jorge A. Effects of Structural Characteristics and Personal Attributes on Labor
Mobility in Ecuador. 1986. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University. viii, 133 leaves.
7526. Breur, Toni. Agribusiness als Entwicklungsstimulans?: das Beispiel der
Milchwirtschaft in den ecuadorianischen Anden, Zeitschrift fr Wirtschaftsgeographie, 36:4
(1992), 193-209.
Examines contributions of the dairy industry to the economy of the highlands 1970-1987.
7527. Bromley, R.J. El comercio de productos entre la costa y la sierra ecuatoriana. Quito:
CESA, 1975. 61 p.
7528. Bromley, R.J. Contemporary Market Periodicity in Highland Ecuador, Regional
A nalysis, edited by Carol A. Smith, vol. 1 (New York: Academic Press, 1976), p. 91-122.
7529. Bromley, R.J. Interregional Marketing and Alternative Reform Strategies in
Ecuador, European Journal of Marketing, 8:3 (Winter 1974), 245-264.
7530. Bromley, R.J. Inter-regional Marketing Chains in Ecuador, Geographical A nalysis for
Development in Latin A merica and the Caribbean: Selected Papers and Discussions at the 4th General
Session of the Conference of Latin A mericanist Geographers, held in Calgary, Alberta, June 27-30,
1973, edited by Richard P. Momsen, Jr. (Chapel Hill: CLAG Publications, 1975), p. 115-117.
7531. Bromley, R.J. Market Center and Market Place in Highland Ecuador: A Study of
Organization, Regulation, and Ethnic Discrimination, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in
Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 233-259.
A socioeconomic study of markets in the highlands.
7532. Bromley, R.J. Traditional and Modern Change in the Growth of Systems of Market
Centres in Highland Ecuador, Market-Place Trade: Periodic Markets, Hawkers, and Traders in
A frica, A sia, and Latin A merica, Robert H.T. Smith, editor (Vancouver: Centre for
Transportation Studies, University of British Columbia, 1978), p. 31-47.
7533. Bromley, R.J.; and Rosemary D.F. Bromley. Defining Central Place Systems
Through the Analysis of Bus Services: The Case of Ecuador, Geographical Journal, 145:3 (Nov.
1979), 416-436.
7571. Chiriboga, Manuel; and Renato Piccino. La produccin campesina cacaotera: problemas
y perspectivas. Cuenca: Centro de Capacitacin Campesina del Azuay; Quito: Centro de Arte y
Accin Popular, 1982. 120 p.
7572. Da Ros, Giuseppina. La contaminacin de aguas en Ecuador: una aproximacin
econmica. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1995. 251 p.
Examines the economic and environmental effects of water pollution. Includes specific
studies of Quito and Cuenca.
7573. Da Ros, Giuseppina. Orgenes del cooperativsimo agrcola en el Ecuador, Cultura,
8:23 (sept./dic. 1985), 259-279.
7574. De Janvry, Alain; and Pablo Glikman. Encadenamientos de produccin en la economa
campesina en el Ecuador. San Jos, Costa Rica: Fondo Internacional de Desarrollo Agrcola, en
colaboracin con el Instituto Interamericano de Cooperacin para la Agricultura, 1991. xxxiii,
529 p. (Estrategias para mitigar la pobreza rural en Amrica Latina y el Caribe; 1)
7575. De Janvry, Alain; Elisabeth Sadoulet; and Andr Fargeix. A djustment and Equity in
Ecuador. Paris: Development Centre of the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and
Development, 1991. 174 p.
More of an exercise in econometrics than a study of economic conditions in the 1980s and
the early 1990s. Applies a general equilibrium model to Ecuador to examine alternative
approaches to economic stabilization. See also item 2708.
7576. De la Torre, Augusto. Macroeconomic Aspects of a Petroleum Boom: Ecuador 19721980. 1987. 257 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Notre Dame.
7577. Desafos empresariales para los 90, O. Hurtado [et al.]. Quito: Konrad-AdenauerStiftung: INSOTEC, 1990. v, 115 p.
7578. El Desarrollo del sector financiero y la economa del Ecuador 1965-1985. Quito:
Compaa Financiera Ecuatoriana de Desarrollo, 1985. 315 p.
7579. El Desarrollo econmico del Ecuador, Comisin Econmica para la Amrica Latina.
Mxico, D.F.: Naciones Unidas, 1954. xiii, 217 p.
7580. El Desarrollo empresarial en el Ecuador en las dos ltimas dcadas. Quito:
Superintendencia de Compaas, 1988. 118 p.
7581. Desarrollo y cambio socio-econmico en el Ecuador, Nick D. Mills, Jr. [et al.]. Quito:
Centro Andino de Estudios y Investigaciones, 1979. 232 p.
7582. Desarrollo y educacin en el Ecuador: 1960-1978, Junta Nacional de Planificacin y
Coordinacin Econmica. Quito: La Junta, 1979. xi, 158 p.
7583. Deuda externa del Ecuador: enfoques, coordinacin de Bayardo Tobar; Galo Abril [et
al.]. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas: Consejo
Nacional de Universidades y Escuelas Politcnicas, 1988. 190 p.
7584. Diagnstico de la agro-industria. Quito: Centro de Desarrollo Industrial del Ecuador,
1982. 2 v. (426 p.).
7585. Directorio industrial y comercial del Ecuador, 1992-1993. Quito: OMC Publicaciones,
1993. 1106 p.
7586. Directorio y tabulado de datos econmicos de industria, pequea industria, artesana y
servicios tursticos de las Provincias de El Oro, Loja y Zamora-Chinchipe. Quito: Programa Regional
para Desarrollo del Sur del Ecuador, 1976. 2 v. (287 p.)
7587. Domestic Efforts and the N eeds for External Financing for the Development of Ecuador:
Document, prepared by the Secretariat, Inter-American Economic and Social Council, InterAmerican Committee on the Alliance for Progress. Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union,
General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, 1968. 2 v.
7588. Dubly, Alain; and Alicia Granda. Desalojos y despojos: los conflictos agrarios en el
Ecuador, 1983-1990. Quito: CEDHU: Edit. El Conejo, 1991. 226 p.
A report on land takeovers, especially invasions of estates by peasants and those
involving violence and destruction, during the 1980s. Includes examples from all three major
regions of the country (i.e., the coast, the highlands, and the Oriente).
7589. Durn Pitarque, Fidel. A pertura de la economa y promocin de la pequea industria en el
Ecuador. Quito: CEDEPI, 1991. 28 p.
7590. Dutn, Jorge. La apropiacin del excedente por los sectores improductivos y la actual
crisis, Revista del IDIS, 17 (abr. 1987), 83-116.
7591. Eckersley, Loc; Ral Pinto; and Phillip Rourk. Ecuador industrial development finance.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Agency for International Development, 1985. 1 v. in various
paginations.
7592. La Economa ecuatoriana al momento y sus proyecciones: conferencias y comentarios del
seminario efectuado del 1 al 5 de agosto de 1988, Colegio de Economistas de Guayaquil. Guayaquil:
Edit. de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1989. 315 p.
7593. La Economa ecuatoriana durante los gobiernos Rolds-Hurtado y Hurtado-Rolds, 19791982, Wolfgang Schmidt [et al.]. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, Instituto de
Investigaciones Econmicas, 1982. 173 p.
7594. Ecuador agrario: ensayos de interpretacin, Javier Ponce [et al.], 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El
Conejo: ILDIS, 1984. 237 p.
7595. Ecuador, an A genda for Recovery and Sustained Growth. Washington, D.C.: World
Bank, 1984. xl, 183 p.
7596. Ecuador, anlisis de coyuntura. (Primer semestre, 1990)-. Quito: Centro de
Planificacin y Estudios Sociales (CEPLAES): Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones
Sociales (ILDIS): Fundacin Friedrich Ebert, 1990-.
An annual, beginning with the 1991 issue.
7597. Ecuador, cambios en el agro serrano, Osvaldo Barsky [et al.]. Quito: Facultad
Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales; Centro de Planificacin y Estudios Sociales, 1980. 531 p.
Contents: Miguel Murmis, El agro serrano y la via prusiana de desarrollo capitalista; Patricia
de la Torre, El terrateniente y el proceso de modernizacin de la hacienda; Mercedes Prieto,
Haciendas estatales: un caso de ofensiva campesina, 1926-1948; Osvaldo Barsky, Los
terratenientes serranos y el debate poltico previo al dictado de la Ley de reforma agraria de 1964
en el Ecuador; Alex Barril Garca, Desarrollo tecnolgico, produccin agropecuaria y
relaciones de produccin en la sierra ecuatoriana; Lucia Salamea, La transformacin de la
hacienda y los cambios en la condicin campesina; Alvaro Senz, Expulsin de fuerza de
trabajo agrcola y migracin diferencial; Carlos Furche, Lgica de funcionamiento interno y
racionalidad econmica en empresas campesinas asociativas; Gustavo Cosse, Reflexiones
acerca del Estado, el proceso poltico y la poltica agraria en el caso ecuatoriano; Csar Verduga,
Un caso particular de intervencin estatal en el desarrollo del capitalismo en el agro; Simn
Pachano, Capitalizacin de campesinos; Juan M. Carrin, La dinmica de poblacin en la
sierra ecuatoriana.
7598. Ecuador, capitalismo y crisis: temas de discusin, Paciente Vzquez [et al.]. Cuenca:
Universidad de Cuenca, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, 1984. 186 p.
7599. Ecuador, Crisis and Recovery, Bank of London & South A merica Review, 5:55 (July
1971), 391-399.
Reports the financial state of the country in the second half of 1970.
7600. Ecuador, desafos y logros de la poltica econmica en la fase de expansin petrolera.
Santiago: Naciones Unidas, 1979. iii, 158 p.
Prepared by the Economic Commission for Latin America.
7601. Ecuador, Development Problems and Prospects. Washington, D.C.: Latin America and
Caribbean Regional Office, World Bank, 1979. xvii, 643 p.
7602. Ecuador, Economic Development Issues. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1981. ix, 134
p.
7603. Ecuador, el mito del desarrollo, por Alberto Acosta [et al.], coordinacin, Sohel Riffka.
Quito: Edit. El Conejo; ILDIS, 1982. 237 p.
7604. Ecuador, el reto de la economa mundial, Alberto Acosta [et al.]. Quito: ILDIS: El
Duende: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 374 p.
7605. El Ecuador en la encrucijada: crisis, empleo y desarrollo. Quito: Corporacin Editora
Nacional, 1986. 307 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 11)
Coedited and copublished with the Federacin Nacional de Economistas del Ecuador.
7606. El Ecuador en la nueva coyuntura; El Estado y las inquietudes privadas; Imagen del
Ecuador en el exterior. Quito: Comit de Informacin y Contacto Externo, [1978?]. 190 p.
7607. El Ecuador en la OPEP, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones BanCentral, 1981. 190 p.
7608. Ecuador, estrategia de desarrollo. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y
Coordinacin Econmica, 1979. 3 v.
7609. Ecuador hoy, documentos 1991: visin del BID-CON A DE-IN CA E-CORDES-FCE,
compilacin y seleccin de textos, Leonardo Vicua I. Guayaquil: Departamento de
Publicaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 1991. 1
v. in various pagings.
7610. Ecuador hoy, documentos 1992: visin del BID, CEPA L, ILDIS, CEPLA ES, BCE,
CON A DE, FCE, compilacin y textos, Leonardo Vicua I. Guayaquil: Departamento de
Publicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil, 1993. 110 p.
7611. Ecuador, petrleo y crisis econmica, [Alberto] Acosta [et al.]. Quito: ILDIS, 1986. 237
p.
7612. Ecuador, poltica econmica: teora y realidad. Guayaquil: Frente Democrtico de
Economistas, 1986. 3 v.
Contents: 1, Germnico Salgado [et al.], Sector externo, Fondo Monetario Internacional,
integracin y dependencia; 2, Carlos Len G. and Jorge Fernndez L., Inflacin, precios, salarios y
teora monetaria; 3, L. Vicua I., L. Roldos A., and J. Moncada S., Coyuntara econmca, decretosleyes de urgencia y plan de desarrollo.
7613. Ecuador, problemas y perspectivas de desarrollo. Washington, D.C.: Amrica Latina y el
Caribe Oficina Regional, Banco Mundial, 1979. 2 v.
7614. Ecuador, Public Sector Reforms for the Era of Declining Oil Output. Washington, D.C.:
World Bank, 1991. 234 p.
A major source of information on the public sector.
7615. Ecuador, tenencia de la tierra y desarrollo socio-econmico del sector agrcola. Washington,
D.C.: Unin Panamericana [para el Comit Interamericano de Desarrollo Agrcola], 1965. xxv,
539 p.
A basic, data rich document. Authorship is sometimes attributed to R. Baraona.
Reprinted as: Tenencia de la tierra y desarrollo socio-econmico del sector agrcola: Ecuador.
[Guayaquil] : Departamento de Publicaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas de la
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1981. xxv, 539 p. (Biblioteca ecuatoriana ; 27)
7616. Ecuador y Per: economa y desarrollo, Germnico Salgado [et al.]. Quito: Corporacin
de Estudios para el Desarrollo, 1995. 132 p.
Compares and anlyzes the development of the economies of the two countries from the
1950s through the 1980s, focusing on the effects of structural adjustment programs.
7617. Ekvador, tendentsii ekonomicheskogo i sotsialno-politicheskogo razvitiia, otvetstvennyi
redaktor V.V. Volskii. Moskva: Nauka, 1989. 185, [4] p.
7618. Emanuel Morn, Carlos Julio. A lgunos aspectos de la situacin econmica actual. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1985. 27 p.
7619. Empleo rural y migracin. Quito: Centro de Investigaciones de la Realidad
Ecuatoriana, 1989. 153 p.
7620. En busca de una alternativa para A mrica Latina. Quito: Corporacin de Estudios sobre
la Realidad Nacional; Cuenca: Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Cuenca, 1990.
242 p.
Publishes papers presented at a seminar, held in Aug. 1990, on alternatives for Ecuadors
economic development in light of regional and global trends.
7621. Espinel, Ramn Leonardo. The Modernization of Ecuadorean Agriculture. 1991.
xii, 275 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley.
7622. El Estado y la economa: polticas econmicas y clases sociales en el Ecuador y A mrica
Latina, introduccin y compilacin de Lucas Pacheco, artculos de Cristian Seplveda [et al.].
Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas, Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador,
1983. 443 p.
7623. Estimacin del subempleo del area urbana del Ecuador y de las ciudades de QuitoGuayaquil, 1975. Quito: Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1979. v., 47, iii, [50] p.
7624. Estimacin del subempleo en el area urbana del Ecuador, Centro de Anlisis Demogrfico.
Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1974. ii, ii [sic], 49 p.
7625. Estructuras agrarias y reproduccin campesina: lecturas sobre transformacines capitalistas
en el agro ecuatoriano, seleccin de textos y comentario de Cristian Seplveda. Quito: Instituto
de Investigaciones Econmicas, Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1982. 294 p.
7626. Estudio sectorial de bienes de capital. Quito: Comisin Ecuatoriana de Bienes de
Capital, 1985. 146 p.
7627. Estudio sobre produccin y comercializacin del arroz. Quito: Banco Nacional de
Fomento, 1964. 67 p.
7628. Estudios de la realidad campesina: cooperacin y cambio: informes y materiales de campo
recogidos en Venezuela, Ecuador y Colombia, por R. Pugh [et al.]. Ginebra: Instituto de
Investigaciones de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo Social, UNRISD, 1970. xix, 421 p.
7629. Evolucin de la economa 1982-1983 y perspectivas 1984. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, 1984. 73 p.
7630. Fabara, Jorge. La produccin frutcula en unidades campesinas del Ecuador,
Desarrollo agrcola y participacin campesina (Santiago de Chile: Comisin Econmica para
Amrica Latina y el Caribe, 1988), p. 257-262.
7631. Farrell, Gilda; and Sara da Ross. El acceso a la tierra del campesino ecuatoriano. Quito:
Mundo Andino; Fundacin Ecuatoriana Populorum Progressio, 1983. 132 p.
7632. Farrell, Gilda; Jorge Fernndez L.; and Cristin Seplveda T. El proceso de
industrializacin ecuatoriano. Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas, Pontificia
Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1983. 290 p.
7633. Fauroux, Emmanuel. Las transformaciones de los sistemas de produccin en el
mundo rural ecuatoriano de 1960 a 1980, Transformaciones agrarias en el Ecuador (item 7877), p.
109-134.
A revision of the authors Ph.D. thesis: The Role of Foreign Trade in Ecuadorian Economic
Development. University of Pennsylvania. 1968.
7649. Golodetz, Alec; and Cyril G. Henriques. Report on the Possibilities of Jewish Settlement
in Ecuador. London: B. Weinberg, 1937. 116 p.
A report by an economist and an irrigation engineer on the possibilities of establishing farm
settlements and of carrying on small trades or crafts.
7650. Gmez-Castellanos, Luisa; and George Psacharopoulos. Earnings and Education in
Ecuador: Evidence from the 1987 Household Survey, Economics of Education Review, 9:3
(1990), 219-227.
7651. Gonzlez A., Jos Luis. N uestra gran realidad: alrededor del problema de la tierra, su
parcelacin y produccin en el Ecuador. Quito: Edit. Labor, 1936. 330 p.
7652. Gore, Peter H. The Highland Campesino, Backward Peasant or Reluctant Pawn?: A
Study of the Social and Economic Factors Affecting Small Farm Modernization in Four
Highland Ecuadorian Communities. 1971. 228 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University.
7653. Grf, Monika. Endogener und gelenkter Kulterwndel in ausgewhlten indianischen
Gemeinden des Hochlandes von Ecuador. Mnchen: Tudov, 1990. 429 p.
A study of failures as well as successes of development projects in the highlands as sponsored
and undertaken by the state, the Catholic Church, and indigenous groups themselves.
7654. Granja, Mara. La burguesa bancaria, 1980-1984. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1987. 154 p.
7655. Greiling-Geister, Regina. Vernderungen der Sozialstruktur in der Landwirtschaft
Ecuadors. Koln: Pahl-Rugenstein, 1981. 183 p.
7656. Greytak, David; and Victor Mndez. T he Impact of Intergovenental Grants on Local
Governments in Ecuador: a Study of FON A PA R. Syracuse, N.Y.: Metropolitan Studies Program,
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 1986. xvi leaves, 73 p.
7657. Los Grupos monopolios en el Ecuador: un ensayo de difusin popular. Quito: Centro de
Estudios y Difusin Social, 1986. 208 p.
7658. Guerrero, Andrs. La hacienda precapitalista y la clase terrateniente en A mrica Latina y
su insercin en el modo de produccin capitalista: el caso ecuatoriano. Quito: Escuela de Sociologa,
Facultad de Jurisprudencia, Universidad Central, 1975. 92, [17] p.
Also published as a monograph under the same title (possibly but not necessarily abridged):
Glasgow: University of Glasgow, Institute of Latin American Studies, 1977. 57 p. (Occasional
Papers; no. 23). And as an article under the same title (possibly but not necessarily abridged) in:
A nuario indigenista, 37 (dic. 1977), 65-130. There is also an abridged French version: La
hacienda prcapitaliste en Amrique latine: le cas de lquateur, tudes rurales, 62 (avr.-juin,
1976), 5-38.
7659. Guerrero, Andrs. Renta diferencial y vias de disolucin de la hacienda
precapitalista en el Ecuador, Revista ciencias sociales, 2:5 (1978), 52-73.
7661. Guerrero Carrin, Trosky. Economa agraria. Loja: Universidad Nacional de Loja,
1989. 297 p.
7662. Guerrero Carrin, Trosky. Modernizacin agraria y pobreza rural en el Ecuador. Loja:
Edit. Universitaria, 1992. 198 p.
Surveys changes in the agricultural sector during the 1970s and 1980s.
7663. Guerrero Murgueytio, Rosa Matilde. Contribucin del Estado al proceso de acumulacin
de burguesa durante el perodo 1980-1984. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1987. 203 p.
7664. Gua del sector financiero ecuatoriano. Ao 1 (1991)-. Quito: Dinediciones, 1991-.
7665. Gutirrez, Alejandro. Ecuador, salarios, empleo e ingresos 1970-1982, Ecuador
debate, 11 (jun. 1986), 15-44.
7666. Guzmn C., Jos H. Tecnologa agropecuaria del Ecuador. Cuenca: Grficas Hernndez
Ca. Ltda., 1988. 343 p.
7667. Handelman, Howard. Development and Misdevelopment in Ecuador, Journal of
Interamerican Studies and World A ffairs, 24:1 (Feb. 1982), 115-122.
Reviews: Ecuador hoy (item 2734); Oswaldo Hurtados Political power in Ecuador (item 1939);
Miguel Murmis, Jos Bengoa, and Osvaldo Barsky, Terratenientes y desarrollo capitalista en el agro
(Quito: CEPLAES, 1978); and Moritz Thomsen, T he Farm on the River Esmeraldas (item 5905).
7668. Haubert, Maxime. Coopratives de rforme agraire et scurit alimentaire dans la
sierra equatorienne, Etudes rurales, 113/114 (1989), 157-172.
7669. Hernndez, Carmen; and Rafael Urriola. Los pequeos productores agropecuarios y la
apertura comercial. Quito: IICA; ILDIS, 1993. 116 p.
A comparative study of the effects of trade liberalization on small farmers, especially potato,
rice, and coffee producers, in Colombia and Ecuador.
7670. Herrera, Washington; Guillermo Navarro; and Carlos Izurieta. Economa ecuatoriana:
concentracin econmica y pobreza social, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1988. 132 p.
Contents: Washington Herrera, La posicin del Ecuador en la integracin andina;
Guillermo Navarro J., Neoliberalismo y recesin econmica; Carlos Izurieta, El sector
petrolero.
7671. Herrnheiser, Pavel. Las materias primas del Ecuador y su explotacin. Cuenca: Edit.
Audstral, 1944. 129 p.
Notwithstanding the title, a proposal for the economic development of the country.
Discusses sanitation, transportation, capital investment, Inter-American cooperation, and
planning as well as raw materials.
7672. Hidrobo Estrada, Jorge A. Industriales, estado, industrializacin en el Ecuador. Quito:
Corporacin de Promocin Universitaria, Universidad San Francisco de Quito; Instituto de
Investigaciones Socio-Econmicas y Tecnolgicas, 1990. xxvi, 197 p.
7695. Kreider, L. Emil; and E. Dwayne Key. Ecuadorean Sugar Conflict and the Variable
Import Levy, Inter-A merican Economic A ffairs, 23:2 (Autumn 1969), 39-47.
7696. Kublank, Peter; and Diego Mora Castro. El sistema energtico del Ecuador. Quito:
Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1987. 262 p.
7697. Labastida R., Edgar de; and Rob Vos. El salario y los niveles de vida urbana en el
Ecuador: un estudio de los barrios populares de Quito y Guayaquil, 1 ed. The Hague: ISS, 1987.
196 p.
7698. Larrea Maldonado, Carlos. Los cambios recientes en el subsistema bananero ecuatoriano y
sus consecuencias sobre los trabajadores, 1977-1984, la ed. Quito: Facultad Latinoamericano de
Ciencias Sociales, Sede Ecuador, 1988. 19 leaves.
7699. Larrea Maldonado, Carlos; Silvia Sommaruga; and Paola Sylva Charvet.
Agroexportacin, transnacionales y paisaje agrario en la costa ecuatoriana, Transformaciones
agrarias en el Ecuador (item 7877), p. 71-94.
7700. Lawson, Victoria A. Work Force Fragmentation in Latin America and Its Empirical
Manifestations in Ecuador, World Development, 18:5 (May 1990), 641-658.
7701. Lazo de Rofrio, Teresa. Del gradualismo al shock. Guayaquil: Edit. de la Universidad
de Guayaquil, 1994. 105 p.
Examines economic policies and developments under the leadership of the Democratic Left
and the Republican Unity Party in 1992 and 1993.
7702. Leiserson, Etty. A gricultural Production and Trade of Ecuador. Washington, D.C.:
United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Foreign Regional
Analysis Division, 1968. iv, 50 p.
7703. Len Camacho, Patricio; and Salvador Marconi Romano. La contabilidad nacional:
teora y mtodos. Quito: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1985. 383 p.
A guide to the national accounts of Ecuador by two of the specialists responsible for the
development and publication of the countrys national accounts (see item 8414).
7704. Linnemann, Hans. Regiones econmicas del Ecuador, su integracin y desarrollo: estudio
preliminar. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1965. 97 p.
Preparado para el Gobierno del Ecuador ...
7705. Lpez Crdovez, Luis Alberto. Estudio preliminar de las zonas agrcolas del Ecuador.
Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1961. vii, 149 p.
7706. Luna Osorio, Luis. Competir en el mundo y exportar. Quito: Instituto Tecnolgico
Superior Amrica, 1995. xiv, 226 p.
Examines the global context of the external sector of the economy and suggests ways and
means to bolster and diversify trade with the rest of the world.
7707. Luna Tamayo, Milton. MODERN IZA CION ?, ambigua experiencia en el Ecuador:
industriales y fiesta popular. Quito: IADAP, 1993. 122 p.
7730. McCusker, Henry F., Jr.; and Edward A. Podesta. Manpower and Educational Planning
in the Socioeconomic Development of Ecuador. Menlo Park: Stanford Research Institute, 1964. vii,
91 p.
7731. McKenzie, Merylyn. La poltica y la gestin de la energa rural: la experiencia del Ecuador.
Quito: Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales, 1994. 368 p.
A detailed examination of the problems of development of rural energy sources, particularly
insofar as deforestation is concerned and the impact of deforestation on the rural populations of
the Cantons of Quevedo (Los Ros), and Portoviejo (Manab).
7732. Meier, Peter C. Apuntes sobre la estratificacin del proletariado industrial:
productividad, empleo e ingresos, Revista ciencias sociales 5:15/16 (1984), 129-138.
7733. Meltzoff, Sarah Keene; and Edward LiPuma. The Social and Political Economy of
Coastal Zone Management, Coastal Zone Management Journal, 14:4 (1986), 349-380.
7734. Meyer, Carrie A. Environmental NGOs in Ecuador: an Economic Analysis of
Institutional Change, Journal of Developing A reas, 27:1 (Jan. 1993), 191-210.
Examines the experience of USAID with nongovernmental organizations, especially the
highly successful Fundaci n Natura, considered by many to be a model for Latin America at
large.
7735. Miller, Eilif V. Agricultural Ecuador, Geographical Review, 49:2 (Apr. 1959), 183207.
7736. Miras, Claude de; and Roberto Roggiero. Haba una vez pequeas actividiades en la
urbe: discursos y teoras: desde la marginalidad pasando por el sector informal en el Ecuador: balance,
sntesis del conocimiento y nuevas perspectivas anliticas, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo: CEDIME:
ORSTOM, 1991. 265 p.
7737. Misin Andina del Ecuador. Proyecto de integracin del campesinado, prstamo no.
55/T F/EC: informe final, diciembre 1969. Quito: Misin Andina del Ecuador, 1970. 85 p.
7738. Misin Andina del Ecuador. Seis aos de trabajo de la Misin A ndina en el Ecuador.
Quito: Misin Andina del Ecuador, [1964?] 28 p.
7739. Mogolln, Nestor. Estructura, tensin y posibilidades econmicas de la Repblica
del Ecuador, Boletn de informaciones y de estudios sociales y econmicos, 2:7 (dic. 1939), 86-101.
7740. Moncada, Jos. Breve evaluacin de la participacin del Ecuador en el Grupo
Andino, Economa (Quito), 64 (ago. 1975), 25-34.
7741. Moncada, Jos. Capitalismo, burguesa y crisis en el Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Instituto de
Investigaciones Econmicas, 1983. 107 p.
7742. Moncada, Jos. Capitalismo y neocapitalismo en el Ecuador Quito: Ediciones la Tierra,
1985. 80 p.
7743. Moncada, Jos. Capitalismo y subdesarrollo ecuatoriano en el siglo XX. Quito:
Departamento de Cultura y Difusin Popular, Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1982. 137 p.
A major contribution to the neglected role of coffee and coffee producers in the development
of the agricultural sector.
7756. Morales, Edmundo. The Guinea Pig in the Andean Economy: from Household
Animal to Market Economy, Latin A merican Research Review, 29:3 (1994), 129-142.
See also item 8047.
7757. Morales Oyarzun, Juan. Pequea y mediana industria en el Ecuador: situacin y poltica de
fomento. Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Econmicas y Tecnolgicas, 1986. 102 p.
7758. Moreira, Dario. El desarrollo provincial y la integracin nacional: notas sobre una
estrategia de accin de los concejos provinciales y la participacin popular para el desarrollo integrado del
Ecuador. Quito: Consejo Provincial de Pichincha, 1982. 29 p.
7759. Morris, Arthur Stephen. A fforestation Projects in the Ecuadorian Sierra. Glasgow:
University of Glasgow, 1983. 18 p. (Occasional Papers; no. 39)
7760. Moya Espn, Fernando. Estado de situacin de la pequea y mediana industria en el
Ecuador: perodo 1978-1982. Quito; FENAPI; INSOTEC, 1986. 140 p.
7761. Munro, David M. Problems on the Way to Ecuadors Democracy, Geographical
Magazine, 53 (Sept. 1981), 782-786.
7762. Naranjo, Mariana. Privatizaciones: elementos para la discussin. Quito: Centro de
Planificacin y Estudios Sociales, 1992. 104 p.
7763. Narvez Quionez, Ivn. Flexibilizacin laboral y crisis. Quito: Fundacin Ecuatoriana
de Estudios Sociales, 1992. 236 p.
Examines political and social aspects of unionization of government workers.
7764. Navarro Jimnez, Guillermo. La concentracin de capitales en el Ecuador, 2 ed. Quito:
Ediciones Solitierra, 1976. 114 p.
7765. Nickelsburg, Gerald. Inflation, Expectations and Qualitative Government Policy in
Ecuador, 1970-1982, World Development, 15:8 (Aug. 1987), 1077-1085.
7766. Nieto Garca, Vctor. La crisis econmica en el Ecuador: contribucin a la discusin del
problema. Guayaquil: Instituto Pedro Saad de Estudios Sociales, 1985. 65 p.
7767. Nieto Garca, Vctor. Crtica al plan integral de transformacin y desarrollo, 1973-1977.
Guayaquil: Departamento de Publicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1983. 320 p.
7768. Ojeda de Vaca, Azucena. La desnacionalizacin de la economa ecuatoriana. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil, Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas, 1981. 49 p.
7769. Opciones de la pequea y mediana industria en la apertura econmica, Fidel Durn [et al.].
Quito: INSOTEC, 1992. 193 p.
7770. Orellana, Luis E. La empresa popular ecuatoriana: realidades, avances y perspectivas, 1
ed. Guayaquil: Fundacin Guaayquil, 1989. 491 p.
7786. Paredes Avila, Eduardo. La crisis econmica. Quito: Centro de Estudios y Difusin
Social, 1984. 76 p.
7787. Paredes Avila, Eduardo. La oligarqua y la crisis. Quito: Centro de Estudios y Difusin
Social, 1985. 116 p.
7788. Parsons, James J. Economic Development in the Northern Andes, Geographical
Review, 46:3 (July 1956), 411-413.
7789. Pensamiento agrario ecuatoriano, estudio introductorio y seleccin de Carlos Marchn
Romero. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1986. 741 p.
(Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 23)
As it turn outs, much, if not all, of this anthology is concerned with the 1916-1918 debate
regarding the nominal (in retrospect) abolition of concertaje de indios.
7790. Pensamiento monetario y financiero, estudio introductorio y seleccin de Eduardo Larrea
Stacey. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador; Corporacin Editora nacional, 1986. 2 v.
(Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 20-21)
7791. Pequea y mediana industria en el Ecuador: situacin y polticas de fomento, perodo 19781982, direccin de Juan Morales Oyarzn. Quito: INSOTEC, 1986. 102 p.
7792. Prez Sinz, Juan Pablo. Industrializacin y fuerza de trabjao en Ecuador, Boletn de
estudios latinoamericanos y del Caribe, 37 (dic. 1984), 19-43.
Examines changes in the composition and quality of the labor force resultant from the major
increase in industrialization that occurred the 1970s. Based on a survey of three factories in
Quito (Cervecera Ecuatoriana, Textiles Ecuador, and Electro Andina).
7793. Prez Sinz, Juan Pablo. Industrializacin tarda y Estado en Ecuador: elementos de
anlisis, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 5:15/16 (1984), 109-127.
Examines the role of the state in the latent development of industrialization.
7794. La Pesca artesanal en el Ecuador, ESPOL, CEPLAES, ILDIS. Guayaquil: Escuela
Superior Politcnica del Litoral, 1987. xv, 288 p.
On traditional fishing and fishing practices.
7795. Petersen, Jens; and Monika H. Rusch. Soziale Entwicklung als Programm: A grarbeispiels
in Ecuador und Mexico. Berlin: Institut fr Soziologie der Technischen Universitt Berlin, 1985.
xii, 273 p.
7796. Pfaller, Alfred. Estratega de evolucin del Ecuador hacia fines del presente siglo,
Ecuador hoy (item 2730), p. 134-165.
7797. Pitri-Lvy, Anne Lise. Lobjet de nature: art populaire, fonction sociale et orientation
commerciale. Toulouse: Presses Universitaries du Mirail, 1991. 462 p.
Includes a chapter on Les artisanants de lEquateur (p. [355]-402).
7798. Pita Sevilla, Edgar; and Peter C. Meier. A rtesana y modernizacin en el Ecuador:
anlisis de la situacin socio-econmica de la artesana ecuatoriana, perspectivas de desarrollo y polticas
de fomento. Quito: Unidad de Artesana, CONADE, 1985. 301 p.
7799. Policy Aspects of Development and Individual Mobility: Migration and Circulation
from Ecuadors Rural Sierra, Lawrence A. Brown [et al.], Economic Geography, 64:2 (Apr.
1988), 147-170.
7800. Plit, Emilio. Financiamiento de areas rurales marginales en el Ecuador,
7801. Poltica petrolera ecuatoriana 1972-1976. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador,
Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas, [1979?]. 222 p.
Contents: Gustavo Jarrn Ampudia, La posicin del Ecuador en materia de poltica
energtica (p. 11-59); Luis Salazar Landeta, Panorama de la situacin mundial y su incidencia
en nuestra poltica hidrocarburfera (p. 61-86); Jaime Dueas Villavicencio, La poltica
petrolera debe tender a asegurar condiciones equitativas para la inversin extranjera (p. 89-96);
Sergio Vsquez Pacheco, Lo lgico y digno es adquirir por lo menos el 51% de las acciones del
consorcio (p. 99-132); Ren Vargas Pazzos, Petrleo: desarrollo y seguridad (p. 133-199);
Posicin de la Universidad Central (p. 201-213); Universidad Central del Ecuador. Instituto
de Investigaciones Econmicas, Frente al caso Texaco-Gulf, Rompetrol, CEPE (p. 215-222).
7802. Politically Feasible and Equitable Adjustment: Some Alternatives for Ecuador, A.
De Janvry [et al.], World Development, 19:11 (Nov. 1991), 1577-1594.
7803. Posada Torres, Rafael. Ecuador and the CGIA R Centers: A Study of T heir Collaboration
in A gricultural Research. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1986. x, 75 p.
7804. Pozo, Eliana. Lneas de financiamiento para la micro y pequea industria. Quito:
INSOTEC, 1990. 53 p.
7805. Proao, Fabin. Ecuador, dinmica del sector agrario: una aproximacin al estudio de los
problemas agrarios ecuatorianos. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin
Econmica, Oficina de Publicaciones, 1978. 238 p.
7806. Proao, Franklin. Desequilibrios de la balanza de pagos y polticas cambiarias en el
Ecuador, 1972-1985. Quito: Corporacin de Estudios para el Desarrollo, [1988?]. 46 p.
7807. El Proceso de industrializacin ecuatoriano, introduccin y compilacin de Lucas
Pacheco; artculos de Cristin Seplveda [et al.]. Quito: Publicaciones IIE-PUCE, 1983. 443 p.
7808. El Problema agrario en el Ecuador, Andrs Guerrero [et al.]; Manuel Chiriboga,
compilador. Quito: ILDIS, 1988. 544 p.
7809. Programa agrario campesino indgena, Federacin Nacional de Organizaciones
Campesinas. Quito: Federacin Nacional de Organizaciones Campesinas, 1988. 71 p.
7810. Programas de micro y pequea empresa en el Ecuado. Quito: INSOTEC, 1989. 79 p.
7811. Puga Valencia, Carlos. Festn de tierras y mano de obra en Ecuador. Quito: Ediciones
Abya-Yala, 1985. 163 p.
7824. Rojas Idrovo, Eliana; and Cecilia Paredes Loza. Proyecciones econmicas y demogrficas
del Ecuador al ao 2000: implicaciones en la educacin superior. Quito: Plan Integral de DesarrolloPUCE, Ediciones de la Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1992. xi, v, 368 p.
7825. Romero Cevallos, Marco. Procesos reales y financieros en Mxico, Chile y Ecuador
en los aos ochenta, Monetaria, 15 (oct./dic. 1992), 385-451.
A comparative study of capital markets in Mexico, Chile, and Ecuador in the 1980s.
7826. Ruff, Samuel R. A gricultural Progress in Ecuador, 1970-82 . Washington, D.C.: U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, 1984. vi, 40 p.
Issued in microfiche.
7827. Saad, Pedro A. Los artesanos del Ecuador y la lucha por el mejoramiento de su situacin.
Guayaquil: Edit. Claridad, 1968. 30 p.
7828. Saad, Pedro A. La realidad agropecuaria del Ecuador: conferencia dictada en la Facultad
de A gronoma de la Universidad de Guayaquil, el 15 de marzo de 1972. Guayaquil: Edit. Claridad,
1972. 89 p.
7829. Saad, Pedro A. La reforma agraria democrtica. Guayaquil: Edit. Clairdad, 1976. 265
p.
7830. Salamea Palacios, Luca. Transformacin de la hacienda y cambios en la condicin
campesina, Segundo encuentro de historia y realidad econmica y social del Ecuador (item 574), vol.
2, p. 195-247.
Delineates the breakup of Guachal, the former hacienda of Neptal Bonifaz, whereas lies the
importance of this study, and changes in the condition of its peasant (i.e., indigenous) work
force. Analysis of what happened to the work force of Guachal from the beginning of the
estates dissolution in 1948 through 1976 is compromised, however, by the authors apparent
lack of understanding of Andeans.
Reprinted in item 7596.
7831. Salgado, Germnico. Ecuador, Crisis and Adjustment Policies: Their Effect on
Agriculture, CEPA L Review/Revista de la CEPA L, 33 (Dec. 1987), p. 129-143.
7832. Salgado, Germnico. Ecuador y la integracin econmica de A mrica Latina. Buenos
Aires: Instituto para la Integracin de Amrica Latina (INTAL); B.I.D., 1970. ix, 330 p.
Examines Ecuadors participation in the Asociacin Latinoamericana de Libre Cambio and in
the Grupo Andino in the 1960s.
7833. Salgado Valdez, Roberto. La sociedad anmica en el Ecuador, 2 ed. Cuenca: Editora
Fondo de Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1982. 240 p.
7834. Samaniego Ponce, Pablo; and Lincoln Maiguashca G. Situacin y perspectivas de la
micro y pequea industria en cinco ciudades secundarias de la costa ecuatoriana: Esmeraldas, Quevedo,
Manta, Portoviejo y Santo Domingo de los Colorados. Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones Socioeconmicas y Tecnolgicas (INSOTEC), Departamento de Investigaciones Industriales;
CEDEP, 1989. 93 leaves.
7835. Santos Alvite, Eduardo. El Ecuador al ao 2000: sector agropecuario, forestal y pesquero.
Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional: Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologa, 1989. 108 p.
(Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 27)
7836. Santos Alvite, Eduardo. Ecuador, hacia el diseo de una teora del desarrollo humano, 1
ed. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, Facultad de Jurisprudencia, Ciencias Polticas y
Sociales, Escuela de Ciencias Internacionales, 1983. 156, [5] p.
A somewhat superficial review of state of the economy as of the late 1980s. Examines choice
between traditional and social change models of development.
7837. Santos Ditto, Jos. Leyes y sangre en el agro. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil,
1986. 330 p.
Primarily a study of the desultory implementation of agrarian reform in the case of rice
plantations on the coast.
7838. Saunders, John Van Dyke. Man-Land Relations in Ecuador, Rural Sociology, 26:1
(Mar. 1961), 57-69.
7839. Schodt, David W. Agricultural Performance in a Small Petroleum-Exporting
Country: Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s, Modernization and Stagnation: Latin A merican
A griculture into the 1990s, edited by Michael Twomey and Ann Helweg (New York: Greenwood
Press, 1991), p. 215-232.
7840. Schrickel, Clyde Calvin. Personnel Practices of United States Manufacturing Firms
Operating in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. 1966. 288 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)-Ohio State University.
7841. Schuldt, Jurgen. La acumulacin de capital y los problemas de la macroeconomia
ecuatoriana en el perodo de posguerra, 2 ed. Quito: Ecuador Siglo XXI: Consejo Nacional de
Desarrollo (CONADE): Proyecto CONADE/GTZ, 1992. 132 p.
7842. Schuldt, Jurgen. Ecuador, estrategias para una poltica de comercio exterior. Quito:
CAAP, 1994. 72 p.
7843. Schuldt, Jurgen. Elecciones y poltica econmica en el Ecuador, 1983-1994. Quito:
Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales (Quito), 1994. 128 p.
Analyzes relationship between election results and economy policies.
7844. Schuldt, Jurgen; and Alberto Acosta Espinosa. Inflacin: enfoques y polticas
alternativas para A mrica Latina y el Ecuador. Quito: Libresa; Instituto Latinoamericano de
Investigaciones Sociales (Quito), 1995. 458 p.
7845. Schuldt, Jurgen; and Cornelio Marchn. Elementos para una estrategia de desarrollo
industrial de largo plazo. Quito: Ecuador Siglo XXI: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo (CONADE):
Proyecto CONADE/GTZ, 1992. 188 p.
7846. Schwerin, Karl H. La reforma agraria en el Ecuador: perspectiva y futuro, Revista de
antropologa (Cuenca), 4 (1973), 111-129.
Based on fieldwork undertaken in the Province of Caar in 1969 and 1970.
7847. Seminario El Ecuador del Siglo XXI (1991: Quito, Ecuador). Memorias del Seminario
El Ecuador del Siglo XXI: perspctivas econmicas del Ecuador en el siglo XXI: mayo 1991, Alberto
Crdenas [et al.], 1 ed. Quito: IAEN: ILDIS, 1992. 110 p.
Notable for insights as to probable future developments by leading late-twentieth-century
analysts such as Osvaldo Hurtado and Walter Spurrier.
7848. Seplveda T., Cristin; Gilda Farrell; and Jorge Fernndez. El proceso de
industrializacin ecuatoriana, seleccin de textos y comentarios de Cristin Seplveda, 1 ed.
Quito: Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, 1983. 290 p.
Contents: Cristin Seplveda, Teora, estrategia y practica de la industrializacin
ecuatoriana; Jorge Fernndez, Un decenio de industrializacin en el Ecuador; Cristin
Seplveda, Relaciones interindustriales, empleo productivo y competitividad en la industria
ecuatoriana; Gilda Farrell, El movimiento sindical frente a la segmentacin tecnolgica y
salarial del mercado de trabajo; Cristin Seplveda, Heterogeneidad tecnolgica, desequilibrios
estructurales y polticas de desarrollo; Cristin Seplveda, Progreso cientfico-tecnolgico,
acumulacin y polticas econmicas en Amrica Latina.
7849. Shaw, Stuart Daniel. Sectoral Structure and Change under State Policy Induced
Industrialization: The Case of Ecuador, 1974-1982. 257 leaves. 1988. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio
State University.
7850. Sheppard, George. Salt Industry in Ecuador, Geographical Review, 22:3 (July 1932),
403-410.
7851. Sierra Castro, Enrique. Ecuador, Ecuador: tu petroleo!, tu gente!, 1 ed. Quito:
EDIDAC, 1995. 263 p.
7852. Sierra Castro, Enrique; and Hernn Yepez Z. Ecuador, clculos macroeconmicos:
ejercicios de clculo y anlisis de computacin, 1 ed. Quito: EDIDAC, 1992. 182 p.
7853. Sierra Valenzuela, Vitalia. Ecuador, inflacin y respuestas: teora, origen y caractersticas
del proceso inflacionario y las respuestas de la poltica econmica. Quito: Ediciones Cultura y
Didctica, 1991. 272 p.
Includes considerable statistical data on costs and prices for the years 1970-1990.
7855. La Situacin campesina caracterizada en zonas, ALOP [et al.]. Quito: ALOP, 1984.
254, [20] p.
Prepared by agreement between ALOP, CESA, CONADE, FAO, MAG, and SEDRI.
7856. La Situacin de los campesinos en ocho zonas del Ecuador, edicin de Alain Dubly.
Quito: ALOP, 1984. 2 v.
7857. Situacin econmica del Ecuador en los aos 80, Equipo de Investigacin MIIC-JEC de
Babahoyo. Babahoyo: Centro de Publicaciones de la Iglesia Catedral de Babahoyo, [1988?]. 188
p.
Examines economic events of the 1980s and the rle of the church and of Catholics should
play in economic development.
7858. Situation, Principal Problems and Perspectives for the Economic and Social Development of
Ecuador, Organization of American States, Inter-American Economic and Social Council,
Permanent Executive Committee, CEPECIES [i.e., CEPCIES] Ad Hoc Group on Ecuador.
Washington, D.C.: General Secretariat of the Organization of American States, 1975. ix, 149 p.
7859. Small Farmer Credit in Ecuador. Washington, D.C.: Agency for International
Development, Department of State, 1973. [197] leaves in various foliations.
7860. Sodiro, Luis. Reflexiones sobre la agriculura ecuatoriana. Quito: Impr. del Gobierno,
1883. 83 p.
7861. Sohns, Reinhold. La economa del Ecuador en la transicin a la democracia: entre
necesidades poltico-estructurales y expectivas de poltica distributiva. Quito: ILDIS: Fundacin
Friedrich Ebert, 1980. iv, 68 leaves.
7862. Soliz V., Rmulo; Patricio Espinosa; and Vctor H. Cardoso. Ecuador, organizacin y
manejo de la investigacin en finca en el Instituto N acional de Investigaciones A gropecuarias (IN IA P).
The Hauge, Netherlands: International Service for National Agricultural Research, 1989. xxvii,
148 p.
7863. Southon, Michael. Competition and Conflict in an Ecuadorian Beachseine Fishery,
Human Organization, 48:4 (Winter 1989), 365-369.
Examines the breakdown of the traditional rules regulating access to peasant fishing upon
the introduction of capital-intensive fishing technology. Also published in Spanish as:
Competencias y conflictos en una pesquera de red de arrastre en Salango, Ecuador, Miscelnea
antropolgica ecuatoriana, 6:6 (1986), 27-47.
7864. T he State and Capital A ccumulation in Latin A merica, edited by Christian Anglade and
Carlos Fortn. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1985-1990. 2 v.
Partial contents: vol. 2. A rgentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela.
7865. Stickley, Smith Thomas. Factors Associated with Incomes of Ecuadorian Farmers.
1968. vii, 278 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio State University.
7866. Stuart, David E. Rasgos estructurales en el sistema ecuatoriano de haciendas, Revista
de antropologa (Cuenca), 5 (dic. 1974), 265-271.
7867. Study of A gricultural Education, Investigation, and Extension, 1965: Ecuador, InterAmerican Committee for Agricultural Development in cooperation with the United Nations
Program for Development and the National Planning Board of Ecuador. Washington, D.C.:
Pan American Union, 1967. xiii, 155 p.
7868. Survey for the Development of the Guayas River Basin of Ecuador. Washington, D.C.:
Pan American Union, 1964. 226 p.
An in-depth analysis of the economic geography of the Guayas River Basin as of the early
1960s.
Also published in Spanish as: Investigaciones de las posibilidades de desarrollo de la Cuenca del Ro
Guayas del Ecuador. Washington, D.C.: Unin Panamericana, 1964. xv, 240 p.
7890. Velasco, Paul; and Gaitan Villavicencio. Perfiles tecnolgicos y pequea produccin
urbana, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Corporacin de Estudios Regionales-Guayaquil: Fundacin
Interamericana, 1989. 198 p.
7891. Velasco Abad, Fernando. Ecuador: subdesarrollo y dependencia, 1 ed. Quito: Edit. El
Conejo, 1981. xxvi, 239 p.
This work should probably have been included under Historia: obras generales y
miscelneas but once again I was misled by library subject headings. The authors thesis in
Economics, it was an attempt to rewrite the history, especially the economic history, of his
country in terms of historical materialism and the then in vogue model of dependency. Its
importance lies in the impact it had on other members of his generation, struggling to make
sense out of the legacy of their past. But Ecuador: subdesarrollo y dependencia was written when
Velasco Abad was barely 20 and its shows it. At least Velasco Abad was not ideologically blind
and showed promise of becoming a respectable scholar; see his later, far more sophisticated and
in the long run, more important La estructura econ mica de la Real A udien cia de Q uito (item 1533).
In this regard it is important to note that he resisted publishing his thesis. Posthumously
published, Ecuador: subdesarrollo y dependencia was reprinted in a 2 ed. in 1983 by Edit. El
Conejo; and in 1990 by the Corporacin Editora Nacional. 194 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias
sociales; 24).
7892. Velasco Abad, Fernando. Reforma agraria y movimiento campesino indgena en la sierra,
2 ed. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1983. 135 p.
A study of the implementation of the agrarian reform laws of 1964 and 1973 and of the
politicization of the peasantry of the highlands during the 1960s and 1970s.
7893. Velastegu R., Daro. Ensayo de diagnstico de la agroindustria del Ecuador. Ambato:
Universidad Tcnica de Ambato, Escuela de Ingeniera de Alimentos, 1982. 55 p.
7894. Verduga, Csar. El desarrollo econmico ecuatoriano contemporneo: una
aproximacin (anlisis del perodo 1972-1975), Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 1:3/4 (1977),
93-114.
7895. Verduga, Csar. El proceso econmico ecuatoriano contemporneo: (anlisis del
perodo 1972/75), Ecuador hoy (item 2730), p. 59-90.
7896. Vicua Izquierdo, Leonardo. 1986-87, economa ecuatoriana: crisis, violencia, miseria.
Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, 1988. 228 p.
7897. Vicua Izquierdo, Leonardo. Caractersticas de la economa ecuatoriana. Guayaquil:
Departamento de Publicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil,
1992. 87 p.
7898. Vicua Izquierdo, Leonardo. La crisis econmica del Ecuador. Guayaquil:
Departamento de Publicaciones, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil,
1992. 59 p.
7899. Vicua Izquierdo, Leonardo. La clase trabajadora del Ecuador: caractersticas y
condiciones de vida, 3 ed. actualizada. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, Facultad de
Ciencias Econmicas, 1979. 145 p.
ETHN OGRAPHY
Students of the second half of the twentieth century will find the following community and
other ethnographic studies of the peoples of Ecuador of considerable interest. A note of caution
is in order, however. Although what anthropologists have to say about the present and
recent past of communities and ethnic groups they study appears to be well grounded for the
most part, all too often they have not done their homework when it comes to the history of the
country or region at large and the specific past of said communities and ethnic groups.
Therefore some of what ethnographers allege to be historically valid in said works is not only
incorrect but sometimes misleading.
Having said that, I hasten to add that some historians do not always do their homework as
well as they should either. More importantly, anthropologists frequently ask question,
important questions, that historians often overlook. Ethnohistory, for example, especially in the
case of Ecuador, is much more the result of the concerns and inquiries of anthropologists than it
is of historians.
For a more complete guide to pre-1966 publications on ethnography and related subjects see
the 3 ed. of Carlos Manuel Larreas Bibliografa cientfica (item 112), and for additional post1965 works, Olaf Holms several supplements to Larrea (items 95-99).
7931. Alcina Franch, Jos. El proceso de prdida de la identidad cultural entre los indios
del Ecuador, Cuadernos hispano-americanos, 428 (feb. 1986), 91-108.
7932. Allard, Pierre; and Philippe Luzuy. Faces of Bronce. New York: Universe Books,
1960. 1 v. (not paginated). Chiefly ill.
A photographic account of the Cayapas, Colorados, Jivaros--i.e., Chachis, Tsatchilas,Shuar-and Otavaleos (Ecuador) and of the Chipayas and Yuras (Bolivia).
7933. Almedia Vinueza, Jos. Identidades indias en el Ecuador contemporaneo. Quito: AbyaYala, 1995. 433 p. (Pueblos del Ecuador; 4).
7934. A ntropologa poltica en el Ecuador: perspectivas desde las culturas indgenas, Jeffrey
Ehrenreich, (compilador), 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 294 p.
A major anthology of studies of politics at the national as well as ethnic group level from the
anthropological perspective. Originally published in English (see item 7956). The Spanish
edition, however, includes an added Introduccin.
Contents: Jeffrey Ehrenreich, Introduccin (p. 15-27); Louisa Stark, El rol de la mujer en
los levantamientos campesinos de las altas llanuras del Ecuador (p. 35-56); Jeffrey Ehrenreich,
Aislamiento, retiro y clandestinidad: comportamiento falso entre los indios Coaiquer del
Ecuador (p. 57-90); John E. Hudelson, Los Quichuas de las tierras bajas como una tribu (p.
91-112); Frank Salomon, La furia de Andrs Arvalo: envoltorio de enfermedades de un
shaman andino colonial (p. 115-137); Judith Kempf, Poltica de curacin entre los indios
Coaiquer (p. 139-159); E. Jean Langdon, Poder y autoridad en el proceso poltico Siona:
desarrollo y muerte del shaman (p. 161-188); Leo R. Chavez, Seguir adelante: la tica
empresarial y el comportamiento poltico entre los tejedores comerciales de Otavalo (p. 191224); Barbara Butler, Tradicionalismo ideolgico y flexibilidad pragmtica en la poltica
interna de una comunidad indgena otavalea (p. 225-252); and Pita Kelekna, El comercio
achuara: contrapeso y complemento para la guerra (p. 253-294).
7935. Ayala Mora, Enrique. Las nacionalidades indgenas en el Ecuador: contribucin para su
estudio. Ibarra: Corporacin Imbabura, 1991. 44 p.
7936. Barriga Lpez, Franklin. Etnologa ecuatoriana. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Crdito Educativo y Becas, 1986-<1988>. <9> v.
Inasmuch as no further vols. appear to have been published in this set, it may be complete as
is.
Contents: 1. Colorados; 2. Shuaras; 3. Otavalos; 4. Cayapas o Chachis; 5. Saraguros; 6. Huaorani
(A ucas); v. 7. Awa-kuaikeres; 8. Salasacas; 9. Cofanes.
7937. La Cuestin indgena en el Ecuador. Quito: Centro de Investigaciones de la Realidad
Ecuatoriana, 1984. 146 p.
7943. Ferdon, Edwin N., Jr. Notes to Accompany a Present Day Ethnic Map of Ecuador,
El Palacio, 54:7 (July 1947), 155-168.
7944. Gallegos Lara, Joaquin. Biografa del pueblo indio, con un estudio preliminar por Jorge
Enrique Adoum. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1952. 68 p.
7945. Ibarra Illez, Alicia. Los indgenas y el Estado en el Ecuador: la prctica neoindigenista.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1987. 261 p.
7946. Indianistas, indianofilos, indigenistas: entre el enigma y la fascinacin: una antologa de
textos sobre el problema indgena, introduccin, seleccin y notas: Jorge Trujillo; prlogo: Simn
Espinosa. Quito: ILDIS: Abya-Yala, 1993. 740 p.
What emerges quite clearly from this illuminating selection of writings on the Indian
problem is how much the other has been misperceived and misdescribed even by nominally
sympathetic but culturally myopic scholars.
7947. Indios, tierra y utopia: los mejores trabajos del 40 concurso de testimonios y 10 de dibujo y
pintura indgena: A 500 aos de resistencia, nuestros mayores cuentan su vida, 1 ed. Quito:
CEDIS-CONAIE, 1992. 58 p.
A set of prize winning personal testimonies collected by indigenous historians from the
Provinces of Bolvar and Imbabura and of prize winning paintings by indigenous artists from the
Provinces of Azuay, Bolvar, Cotopoxi, and Imbabura. The conference was sponsored by the
Confederacin de Nacionalidades Indgenas del Ecuador.
7948. Jaramillo Alvarado, Pio. El indio ecuatoriano: contribucin al estudio de la sociologa indoamericana, prlogo de Gonzalo Rubio Orbe, 6a ed. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1983.
2 v.
Realizada a base de la versin final publicada por el autor ...: (i.e., the 4 ed. Quito: Casa de
la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1954. 526 p.). The first edition, the pioneering statement of indigenismo
in Ecuador, appeared in 1922 (Quito: Impr. de la Edit. Quito; ciii, 227 p.) and is available in a
photofacsimile reprint: Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas,
1979. An exceptionally influential work. Jaramillo Alvarado (1889-1968) is frequently said to
have been the founder and was the de facto leader of indigenismo in Ecuador for many years. But
the Liberal ideologue Abelardo Moncayo (1847-1917) preceded Jaramillo Alvardo as a
spokesperson for Indians and the abolition of concertaje. Both men believed that the salvation
of Indians lay in their incorporation into modern Western society and culture. El indio
ecuatoriano is less important as a study of Indo-American sociology than as an articulation of
the salvation mentality of the indigenismo movement.
7949. Maiguashca, Segundo B. El indio, cerebro y corazn de A mrica: incorporacin a la
cultura nacional. Quito: Edit. Fray Jodoco Ricke, 1949. 140 p.
Although Maiguaschca also favored assimilation into national culture, he took a somewhat
different tack. Being himself an Indian, Maiguaschca advocated the creation of favorable
opportunities for indigenes so that they could acculturate on their own.
7950. Marzal, Manuel Mara. El indio y la tierrra en el Ecuador, A mrica indgena, 23:1
(ene./mar. 1963), 7-30.
Ethic and Political Behavior among Commercial Weavers in Otavalo (p. 159-189); Barbara
Butler, Ideological Traditionalism and Pragmatic Flexibility in the Internal Politics of an
Otavalo Indian Community (p. 191-216); Pita Kelekna, Achuara Trade: Counterpoise and
Complement to War (p. 217-256).
Also published in Spanish (see item 7934).
7957. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. A spectos indgenas. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1965. 372 p.
Includes a lengthy chapter on indgenas del Ecuador, a general essay on the history and the
current situation of autochthonous ethnic groups in the country.
7958. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. Promociones indgenas en A mrica. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1957. 404 p.
The section on Ecuador (pages 303-404) focuses on the Canton of Otavalo--of which Rubio
Orbe was a native son--and discusses the impact of religious missions on the Otavaleos. It
will be recalled that heretofore Rubio Orbes field work had been limited to this group (see his
book on Punyaro [item 8104]).
7959. Senz, Moises. Sobre el indio ecuatoriano y su incorporacin al medio nacional. Mxico,
D.F.: Publicaciones de la Secretara de Educacin Pblica, 1933. xvi, 195 p.
The work of a Mexican scholar. Not necessarily any less paternalistic than his Ecuadorian
counterparts, at least Senz undertook actual field work and presented Ecuadorian Indians in a
somewhat favorable light, finding Otavaleos and Saraguros to be especially valuable elements
for the nation.
7960. Salz, Beate R. T he Human Element in Industrialization: A Hypothetical Case Study of
Ecuadorian Indians. Menasha, Wis.: American Anthropological Association , 1955. ix, 265 p.
(Memoir; no. 85).
The authors doctoral dissertation: 1950. New School for Social Research. Salzs The
Sources: Their Treatment and Use (p. 220-229) is highly recommended for anyone
contemplating research in the Humanities or the Social Sciences on Ecuador. Chapters 9-11 (p.
107-158) have been published in Spanish as: El uso del tiempo: hbitos de trabajo y
modalidades de trabajo, Indianistas, indianofilos, indigenistas (item 7946), p. 117-205.
7961. Snchez-Parga, Jos. Estrategas de supervivencia en la comunidad indgena. Quito:
Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1984. 290 p.
7962. Snchez-Parga, Jos. Transformaciones socio culturales y educacin indgena, 1 ed.
Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1993. 162 p.
7963. Santa Cruz, Joaqun. Los indgenas del Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1957. 92 p.
7964. Santana, Roberto. Les Indiens dEquateur, citoyens dans lethnicit? Paris: Editions du
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1992. 240 p.
A solid study of the politicization of indigenes in the late twentieth-century. Argues that
modern indigenous organizations should be interpreted as catalysts for overhauling the national
political system, resulting in the creation of a true multiethnic nation.
7965. Temas sobre la continuidad y adaptacin cultural ecuatoriana, [editores], Marcelo F.
Naranjo, Jos L. Pereira V., Norman E. Whitten Jr, 2 ed. Quito: Universidad Catlica, 1984.
195 p.
Consists mostly of Spanish version of contributions to Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity
in Modern Ecuador (item 7939). At least one of the chapters, however, is new. See also item
8127.
7966. Tripp, Robert. Anthropology and On-Farm Research, Human Organization, 44:2
(Summer 1985), 114-124.
Discusses the role of anthropology in on-farm research as applied to Ecuador. The research
was conducted by national agronomists and the author, an anthropologist, during the late 1970s.
LITTORAL
As of the late 1990s, there does not appear to have been an ethnography of the coast or of
either of its component regions (i.e., the North Coast and the Central-South Coast). There
were/are ethnographies and other studies, however, of the Afro-Ecuadorians of Esmeraldas
(listed in the Historia regional y estudios relacionados: Costa norte subsection) and of the
three indigenous groups who maintain a separate identity (i.e., the Awa / Coaiquer, the Chachis
(formerly known as Cayapas), and the Tsachilas (formerly known as Colorados), listed below.
The ethnography of the cholos of Manab remained terra incognita. Fortunately, however,
the ethnohistory as well as the ethnography of the indigenous peoples, descendants of the
Huancavilcas, of Santa Elena has begun to be studied (see especially Silvia G. Alvarezs book
and articles [items 5916-5918]). No anthropological or sociological literature on the montubios
of the Guayas River Basin existed/exists either.
AWA / COAIQU ER
Variant spellings: Cuaiquer, Quaiquer, Kwaiker. Members of this ethic group usually refer to
themselves as Awa in Ecuador and as Coaiquer or Cuaiquer in Colombia. See also the chapters
by Jeffrey Ehrenreich and Judith Kempf in Political A nthropology of Ecuador (item 7956) and the
Spanish version thereof, A ntropologa poltica en el Ecuador (item 7934), by Ruth Moya in N uevas
investigaciones antropolgicas ecuatorianas (item 7951), and Kempfs doctoral dissertation The
Dynamics of Culture and Health (item 8571).
7967. Cern Solarte, Benhur. Los Awa-Kwaiker: un grupo indgena de la selva pluvial del
Pacfico nariense y el noroccidente ecuatoriano. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1986. 304 p.
Apparently the first detailed ethnography, at least in print, of this little known group.
Includes a chapter, Elementos que permiten acercarnos a la evolucin histrica del grupo
indgena Kwaike (p. 195-240) on their history.
7968. Ehrenreich, Jeffrey. Contacto y conflicto: el impacto de la aculturacin entre los Coaiquer
del Ecuador, traduccin de Hctor Dueas. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Otavalo: Instituto
Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1989. 303 p.
The Spanish version of the authors doctoral dissertation: Contact and Conflict: An
Ethnographic Inquiry into the Impact of Racism, Ethnocide and Social Change on the
Egalitarian Coaiquer Indians of Ecuador. 1984. xiv, 380 leaves. New School for Social
Research. Includes an outline of the history of this ethnic group.
7969. Ehrenreich, Jeffrey. Lifting the Burden of Secrecy: The Emergence of the Awa
Biosphere Reserve, Latin A merican A nthropology Review, 1:2 (1989), 49-54.
On the political and social structure of the Coaiquer and the creation by the Ecuadorian
government of the Awa Ethnic and Forestry Preserve.
7970. Ortiz, Sergio Elas. The Modern Quillacinga, Pasto and Coaiquer, Handbook of
South A merican Indians, vol. 2 (Washington, D.C.: Bureau of American Ethnology, 1946), p.
961-968.
7971. Villareal, Carlos Alberto. La crisis de la supervivencia del pueblo Awa. Quito: ILDIS:
I.E.E., 1986. 71 p.
CHACHIS (Cayapas)
There is some confusion in the literature as to the name of this group. Traditionally
known to the outside world as Cayapas, nowadays they are increasingly referred to either as
Chachis--their own designate for their language--or as Chachillas --their name for
themselves as a people. See also items 1094 and 1095, and Warren R. DeBoers Returning to
Pueblo Viejo: History and Archaeology of the Chachi, Ecuador, A rchaeology in the Lowland
A merican tropics: Current A nalytical Methods and A pplications, edited by Peter W. Stahl
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), p. 243-262.
The history of this group has barely begun to be studied, but see: Josefa Palop Martnezs Los
Cayapas en el siglo XVI (item 1094), and her Territorio y sociedad entre los Cayapas del siglo
XVI (item 1095).
7972. Altschuler, Milton. The Cayapa: A Study in Legal Behavior. 1964. iii, 250
leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota.
7973. Altschuler, Milton. The Sacred and the Profane Realms of Cayapa Law,
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 8:1 (Mar. 1967), 44-54.
7974. Barrett, Samuel Alfred. T he Cayapa Indians of Ecuador. New York: Heye Foundation,
1925. 2 v.
Based on field work undertaken in 1908 and 1909. Also published in Spanish as: Los indios
Cayapas del Ecuador. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994.
7975. Carrasco A., Eulalia. El pueblo Chachi: el jeengume avanza. Quito: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1983. 219 p.
7976. Holm-Nielsen, Lauritz; and Anders Barfod. Las investigaciones etnobotnicas entre
los Cayapas y los Coaiqueres: segundo informe preliminar, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana,
4:4 (1984), 107-128.
7977. Illanes L., Lewis. Realidad chachi: mal llamados Cayapas. [S.l.: s.n.], 1984. 160 p.
7978. Medina V., Henry. Los Chachi: supervivencia y ley tradicional, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones
Abya-Yala, 1992. 141 p.
7979. Mitlewski, Bernd. Pesca cayapa, Miscelnea antropolgica ecuatoriana, 5:5 (1985), 6386.
TSACHILAS (Colorados)
Variant spelling: Tsatchilas. On the ethnohistory of this ethnic group, including the
southern branch centered on Angamarca in the Corregimiento of (La)Tacunga during the
colonial period, see: Montserrat Ventura i Oller. En el camino: los Tsachila en el complejo
tnico de la selva occidental del Ecuador, in: Encuentro de Investigadores de la Costa
Ecuatoriana en Europa (1 : 1993: Barcelona, Espaa). Primer Encuentro de Investigadores de la
Costa Ecuatoriana en Europa: arqueologa, etnohistoria, antropologa sociocultural, [edicin de]
Alvarez, Aurelio [et al.]. 1 ed. (Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1995), p. 433-465.
7980. Astondoa Ruiz, Ramn. El olvido del tiempo hallado: el lenguaje total entre indgenas.
Bogot: Ediciones Paulinas, 1974. 158 p.
7981. Calazacn, Catalina; and Dolores Orazona. Yo imin tasachi cuwenta layacajon pila,
traduccin de los textos al espaol por Ramn Aguavil Calazacn y Fernando Avils Garaicoa.
Guayaquil: Banco Central del Ecuador, Museo Antropolgico y Pinacoteca, 1982. xvi, 330 p.
Consists of fifty Tsachila legends in the vernacular and Spanish. Both this and item 7985 are
also compilations of oral historical sources.
7982. Costales Samaniego, Alfredo. Los indios colorados. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Antropologa y Geografa, 1965. 221 p. (Llacta; no. 21)
Reprint (p. 1-92); originally published: Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y
Geografa, 1956. (Llacta; no. 1).
7983. Elliot, Elisabeth. T hese Strange A shes. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. 132 p.
HIGHLAN DS
The majority of the ethnic groups in the highlands apparently lost their distinctive identity
sometime during the second half of the colonial period, becoming simply Indians--a
phenomenon that has yet to be studied in depth and not incidentally, verified and refined-subsequently campesinos or peasants in the second half of the twentieth century, at least in the
social scientific literature, and indgenas in the 1980s and 1990s. The known exceptions are
the Otavaleos, the Salasacas, possibly the Caaris, and the Saraguros. Others distinct groups,
however, may emerge as the ethnography of sierra, especially of the central sierra, becomes
better known. As of the late 1990s, apparently the only ethnography of an indigenous
community in Cotopaxi, for example, was Mary J. Weismantels study of Zumbagua (item 8064).
Insofar as Tungurahua is concerned, only the Salasacas had been studied in some depth (see
items 8111-8114 and 8661), but there appear to have been at least two other distinct ethnic
groups in the province, the Chibuleo and the Llangahua, neither of which had been studied
sufficiently. Whereas the indigenous communities of central Chimborazo have been more or
less well researched (see items 5130-5132, 6181, 8037, 8038, and 8330) to the point where they
are sometimes referred to as Colta Indians, those of eastern and southern Chimborazo
remained largely unknown. The same held true for the Province of Bolvar.
7990. Aguil, Federico. El hombre del Chimborazo. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1985. 315
p.
Also available in a 2 ed. 1987. 319 p.
7991. Aguil, Federico. El hombre del Chimborazo y su mundo interior. Cuenca: CREA,
1978. 566 p.
7992. Aguirre Palma, Boris. Cosmovisin andina: una aproximacin a la religiosidad indgena.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1986. 48 p.
7993. Aguirre Palma, Boris. Religiosidad del campesino de Oton. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1987. 104 p.
Oton is a community in the Canton of Cayambe, Province of Pichincha.
7994. Arus de Galarza, Margarita. Caspigas: vivencia y testimonio. Guayaquil: Universidad
Catlica de Santiago de Guayaquil, 1985. 164 p.
7995. Archetti, Eduardo P. El mundo social y simblico del cuy. Quito: Centro de
Planificacin y Estudios Sociales (CEPLAES), 1992. 167 p.
Also published in English as: Guinea-pigs: Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador,
translated by Valentian Napolitano and Peter Worsley. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 150 p.
7996. Barriga Lpez, Franklin. El indio en la Provincia de Cotopaxi. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1976. 143 p.
7997. Barriga Lpez, Franklin. Los mitos en la regin andina. Quito: Instituto Andino de
Artes Populares del Convenio Andrs Bello, 1984. 145 p.
7998. Barsky, Osvaldo. Iniciativa terrateniente en la reestructuracin de las relaciones
sociales en la sierra ecuatoriana, 1959-1964, Revista ciencias sociales, 2:5 (1978), 74-126.
7999. Beals, Ralph L. Acculturation, Economics, and Social Change in an Ecuadorian
Village, A cculturation in the A mericas: Proceedings and Selected Papers of the XXIX th International
Congress of A mericanists, edited by Sol Tax (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952), p. 6773.
On Nayn, then a rural community in the vicinity of Quito.
8000. Beals, Ralph L. Community in Transition: N ayn, Ecuador. Los Angeles: Latin
American Center, University of California, 1966. 233 p.
When Beals first studied this community (Dec. 1948-July 1949), Nayn was a rural parish in
the suburbs of Quito (see item 7999). Subsequently Nayn was absorbed by the city.
8001. Bonifaz, Emilio. Los indgenas de altura del Ecuador, 4 ed. Quito: Politcnica, 1982.
260 p.
Maintains that Andeans are biologically inferior to Europeans. Not surprising inasmuch as
Bonifaz was an amateur anthropologist and archaeologist and a member of the traditional elite.
Some of the data Bonifaz brings to bear, based on first hand observations as well as extensive
reading of the literature, however, are useful.
8002. Botero, Luis Fernando. Chimborazo de los indios: estudios antropolgicos, 1 ed. Quito:
Abya-Yala, 1990. 220 p.
8003. Botero, Luis Fernando. Indios, tierra y cultura, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1992. 246 p.
A study of Indian communities and culture in the Province of Chimborazo.
8004. Bourque, L. Nicole. Developing People and Plants: Life-Cycle and Agricultural
Festivals in the Andes, Ethnology, 34:1 (Winter 1995), 75-87.
8005. Bourque, L. Nicole. Spatial Meaning in Andean Festivals: Corpus Christi and
Octavo, Ethnology, 33:3 (Summer 1994), 229-243.
Items 8004 and 8005 are studies of life-cycles and festivals in the Indian community of Sucre
in the central highlands. Based on field work conducted in 1989 and 1990.
8006. Buitrn, Anbal; and Barbara Salisbury Buitrn. El campesino de la Provincia de
Pichincha. Quito: Impr. de la Caja del Seguro, 1947. 103 p.
8007. Burgos Guevara, Hugo. Relaciones intertnicas en Riobamba: dominio y dependencia en
una regin indgena ecuatoriana. Mxico: Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, 1970. xiii, 390 p.
8008. Calidad de vida: siete ensayos de investigacin en la sierra norte del Ecuador, XIII Curso
Internacional de Geografa Aplicada. Quito: Centro Panamericano de Estudios e
Investigaciones Geogrficas, 1986. 175 p.
Partial contents: Csar Machado de Oliveira, Roger Montao Albn, and Ramiro Herrera
Solano, Salinas: contrates y perspectivas de una calidad de vida (p. 21-38); Patricio Garzn,
Vctor Cantn O., and Jorge Quezada, Penurias de la calidad de vida en un relecto colonial: el
caso de Quito (p. 41-69); Violette Pedneault, Claudette Pierre Louis, and Jos E. Dvila Lpez,
Artificialidad y dependencia en las calidades de vida: Tabacundo y las comunidades de Picalqu
y San Francisco de Cajas (p. 73-87); Clara Ventura Daz R., San Rafael. un suburbio quiteo:
antagonismos entre requerimientos y satisfacciones de una mejor calidad de vida (p. 91-101);
Cristina Prez Resines, Manuel Gonzlez Zumrraga, and Tany Sojo de Cedeo, Calidades de
vida impactadas por la industria: la micro regin agropecuaria de Tanicuchi (p. 103-126);
Carlos Aguilln, Isabel Mara Chacn Vega, and Jos Amable Salazar, Huachi Grande: la
calidad de vida en una micro regin de policultivo comercial en el suburbio ambateo (p. 127144); Nelva Oris Estrella, Anbal Jara Andino, and Denis Romn Vera, Calidad de vida en una
micro regin rural de contrastes: Tisaleo y Chilco La Esperanza (p. 147-161).
8009. Campaa, Vctor. Fiesta y poder: la celebracin de Rey de Reyes en Riobamba, 1 ed.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 187 p.
8018. Crain, Mary M. Poetics and Politics in the Ecuadorian Andes: Womens Narratives
of Death and Devil Possession, A merican Ethnologist, 18:1 (Feb. 1991), 67-89.
The analysis focuses on the ways in which peasant cosmology and gender and class
ideologies are inscribed in . . . devil narratives and produce meanings that resist the
commodification of labor. Based on field work conducted in Quimsa (Imbabura) between 1982
and 1984. See also item 8036.
8019. Crain, Mary M. Ritual, memoria popular y proceso poltico en la sierra ecuatoriana.
Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1989. 286 p.
The Spanish version of authors doctoral dissertation: Ritual, Popular Memory, and the
Political Process. 1987. xi, 236 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin.
A study of rural conditions and relationships between landlords and tenants in the Province
of Imbabura.
8020. Crain, Mary M. The Social Construction of National Identity in Highland
Ecuador, A nthropological Quarterly, 63:1 (Jan. 1990), 43-59.
8021. Crespi, Muriel. Changing Power Relations: The Rise of Peasant Unions on the
Traditional Ecuadorian Haciendas, A nthropological Quarterly, 44:4 (Oct. 1971), 223-240.
8022. Crespi, Muriel. The Patrons and Peons of Pesillo: A Traditional Hacienda System in
Highland Ecuador. 1968. 467 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois, Urbana.
An ethnohistorical as well as ethnographic study. Pesillo is a rural estate in the Canton of
Cayambe in the Province of Pichincha.
8023. Crespi, Muriel. St. John the Baptist: The Ritual Looking Glass of Hacienda Indian
Ethnic and Power Relations, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item
7939), p. 477 -505.
A study of changes in managerial policies at the Hacienda Atahualpa in the Canton of
Cayambe, Province of Pichincha, before and after the agrarian reforms of 1964. Examines the
impact of such policies on Indian laborers and their relationships with white landowners,
especially as they are reflected in the Fiesta de San Juan . . . Based on field work conducted
between 1964 and 1979.
8024. Crespi, Muriel. When Indians Become Cholos: Some Consequences of the
Changing Ecuadorian Hacienda, T he N ew Ethnicity: Perspectives from Ethnology, edited by John
W. Bennett (St. Paul: West, 1975), p. 148-166.
8025. Chimborazo: Life on the Haciendas of Highland Ecuador, edited by John Brandi.
Rooseveltown, N.Y.: Akwesasne Notes, 1976. 66 p.
Consists chiefly of interviews with huasipungeros and other Indian laborers.
8026. Ecuador indgena: sincretismo e identidad en las culturas nativas de la sierra norte, Carlos
Alberto Coba Andrade [et al.]; Hernn Jaramillo Cisneros (compilador), 1 ed. Quito:
Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 217 p.
The fifth issue of Ecuador indgena. An anthology of studies of ethnic groups, especially of
Otavaleos, in the Province of Imbabura, by national and international scholars. Although
individually these essays focus on various themes (such as shamanism, handicrafts, folklore, oral
literature, and music) they are all concerned with popular culture and the issue of cultural
identity.
Contents: Carlos Alberto Coba Andrade, Fundamentos para la definicin de una poltica de
investigacin (p. 11-19); Celso A. Lara Figueroa, Reflexiones sobre dos aspectos de la cultura
popular (p. 21-26); Elisabeth Rohr, El sueo de volar (p. 27-60); Linda DAmico, Artesana
e identidad cultural: una cuestin de historia, ideologa y eleccin (p. 61-69); Hernn Jaramillo
Cisneros, La cestera de Imbabura (p. 71-87); Jaime Hernando Parra Rizo and Claudia
Afanador H., La fiesta de Jongovito: las guaguas de pan en San Pedro (p. 89-101); Lola
Cisneros de Coba and Clara Len Vinueza, Juegos infantiles de tradicin oral en el area urbana
de Otavalo (p. 101-142); Mara Ramrez, Folklore y educacin (p. 143-169); Julio Bueno, La
bomba en la Cuenca del Chota-Mira: sincretismo o nueva realidad (p. 171-193); and Peter
Banning, El sanjuanito o sanjuan en Otavalo (p. 195-217).
8027. Estrategias de supervivencia en la comunidad andina, J. Snchez-Parga [et al.], 1 ed.
Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1984. 290 p.
Contents: Francisco Rhon Dvila, Presentacin; Jos Snchez-Parga, Estrategias de
supervivencia; Manuel Chiriboga, Campesinado andino y estrategias de empleo; Galo Ramn
V., El comportamiento de las comunidades de Cangahua frente a los riesgos agrcolas; Jos
Snchez-Parga, Estructuras espaciales del parentesco en los Andes; Andrs Guerrero,
Estrategias campesinas indgenas de reproduccin: de apegado a huasipungero (CayambeEcuador); J. Durston and A. Crivelli, Diferenciacin campesina en la sierra ecuatoriana.
8028. Ferdon, Edwin N., Jr. A Mountain Colony in Ecuador, El Palacio, 52:7 (July 1945),
129-137.
Daily life and collective work (minga) in Buenos Aires, Imbabura Province.
8029. La Fiesta religiosa campesina (A ndes ecuatorianos), investigacin dirigida por Marco
Vinicio Rueda. Quito: Ediciones de la Universidad Catlica, 1982. 395 p.
8030. Garcs, Victor Gabriel. Condiciones psquico-sociales del indio en la Provincia de
Imbabura; El indio factor de nuestra nacionalidad. Quito: [s.n.], 1931. 174 p.
8031. Garcs, Victor Gabriel. El indio ecuatoriano y la coca, A mrica indgena, 5:4
(oct./dic. 1945), 287-293.
8032. Gillin, John. Quichua-Speaking Indians of Northern Ecuador, A merican
A nthropologist, 38:4 (Oct./Dec. 1936), 548-553.
8033. Guerrero, Andrs. Unit domestique et reproduction sociale: la communaut
huasipungo, A nnales, economies, socits, civilisations, 41:3 (mai/juin 1986), 683-701.
A socioeconomic study of pre-agrarian reform haciendas in the northern highlands as
autonomous communities. Also published in a somewhat different version in Spanish as:
Estrategias campesinas indgenas de reproduccin: de apegado a huasipungero (CayambeEcuador) in Estrategias de supervivencia en la comunidad andina (item 8027).
8043. Martnez Valle, Luciano; and Alonso Azocar A. Comunidades del maz y comunidades
de la papa. Quito: CIRE, 1987. 52 p. Chiefly ill.
Primarily a photographic essay on the peasant communities of Cotacachi in the Province of
Imbabura and Toacazo in the Province of Cotopaxi. Martnez V. prepared the text and Azocar
A. took the photographs.
8044. Meisch, Lynn A. We Are Sons of Atahualpa and We Will Win: Traditional Dress
in Otavalo and Saraguro, Ecuador, Textile Traditions of Mesoamerica and the A ndes: an A nthology,
edited by Margot Blum Schevill, Janet Catherine Berlo, [and] Edward B. Dwyer (New York:
Garland, 1991), p. 145-177.
A study of continuity and change in the manufacture, use, and significance of traditional
dress among the Otavaleos and Saraguros.
8045. Mencas Chvez, Jorge. Riobamba, Ecuador: estudio de la elevacin socio-cultural y
religiosa del indio. Freiburgo: Oficina Internacional de Investigaciones Sociales de FERES, 1962.
154 p.
8046. Montaluisa Chasiquiza, Luis Octavio. La cultura quichua: aportes para el anlisis de
algunos de sus componentes, Cultura, 7:21a (ene./abr. 1985), 433-450.
8047. Morales, Edmundo. T he Guinea Pig: Healing, Food, and Ritual in the A ndes. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1995. xxvii, 177 p.
A sympathetic portrait of the traditional and changing roles of the guinea pig in the
indigenous and mestizo cultures of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia by a trained scholar
and Quechua speaker.
8048. Moreno Romero, Hugo O. Introduccin a la filosofa indgena desde la perspectiva de
Chimborazo. Riobamba: Edit. Riobamba, 1983. 290 p.
8049. Moya, Ruth. Muscuintin, inintinmi muyumunchic = Girando en torno a sueos y
creencias. Quito: CEDIME, 1988. 74 p.
In Quichua and Spanish.
8050. Moya, Ruth. Simbolismo y ritual en el Ecuador andino; El quichua en el espaol de Quito.
Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1981. 334 p. (Coleccin Pendoneros; 40)
Two works in one. The first is an ethnography of rituals and symbolism in highland Ecuador;
the second attempts to reconstruct the Quichua of Quito and Spanish as spoken at the time of
the Spanish conquest, and examines the influence of Quichua on Spanish as spoken in the
1970s in and around the capital.
8051. Moya, Ruth. Los tejidos y el poder ... y el poder de los tejidos. Quito: CEDIME, 1988.
84 p.
8052. Muller, Richard. Estudios etnolgicos sobre los aborgenes de los A ndes ecuatoriales, 2 ed.
Santo Domingo: Casa Edit. Montalvo, 1929. 57 p.
8053. Preston, David. Pressures on Chimborazo Indians, Geographical Magazine, 50 (Jan.
1978), 613-618.
8054. Quevedo Coronel, Rafael. El indio en la regin interandina del Ecuador: estudio biolgico,
psquico y sociolgico. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1938. 30 p.
8055. Rivet, Paul. Etude sur les Indiens de Riobamba, Journal de la Socit des
amricanistes, 1 (1904), 55-80.
8056. Rodrguez Sandoval, Lenidas. Drinking Motivations among the Indians of the
Ecuadorian Sierra, Primitive Man, 18:3/4 (July/Oct. 1945), 39-46.
8057. Rodrguez Sandoval, Lenidas. Vida econmica-social del indio libre de la sierra
ecuatoriana. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1949. ix, 137 p.
The authors doctoral dissertation.
8058. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. N uestros indios: estudio geogrfico, histrico y social de los indios
ecuatorianos, especialmente aplicado a la Provincia de Imbabura. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad,
1946. 382 p.
8059. Snchez-Parga, Jos. Faccionalismo, organizacin y proyecto tnico en los A ndes. Quito:
CAAP, Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1989. 316 p.
8060. Snchez-Parga, Jos. Presente y futuro de los pueblos indgenas: anlisis y propuestas, 2
ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992. 97 p.
8061. Snchez-Parga, Jos. La trama del poder en la comunidad andina. Quito: CAAP, 1986.
456 p.
8062. Santana, Roberto. Campesinado indgena y el desafo de la modernidad, 1 ed. Quito:
Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1983. 209 p.
A study of traditional agriculture and resistence to development among Indians of the
highlands, especially in the Province of Loja.
8063. Stark, Louisa R. Folk Models of Stratification and Ethnicity in the Highlands of
Northern Ecuador, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p.
387-401.
A study of the Canton of Cotacachi in the Province of Imbabura.
8064. Weismantel, Mary J. Food, Gender, and Poverty in the Ecuadorian A ndes.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. xii, 234 p.
An in-depth study of the role of food and meals in the everyday life of the civil/ecclesiastical
parish of Zumbagua in the pramos of the Province of Cotopaxi. Includes a summary chapter on
the demography, ecology, sociopolitical geography, and history of the parish, a hacienda prior to
the agrarian reform of the mid-1960s.
Also published in Spanish as: A limentacin, gnero y pobreza en los A ndes ecuatorianos. Quito:
Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 341 p.
8065. Weismantel, Mary J. Maize Beer and Andean Social Transformations: Drunken
Indians, Bread Babies, and Chosen Women, Modern Language N otes, 106 (Sept. 1991), 861879.
CA ARIS
8073. Fock, Niels. The Topographic Space: Caar Indian Conceptualization of the
Landscape, Folk, 33 (1991), 211-228.
Maintains that irrigation not only shapes the landscape in the Provinces of Caar and Azuay
but also the consciousness of the Caar Indians.
8074. Fock, Niels and Eva Krener. Los Caaris del Ecuador y sus conceptos etnohistricos
sobre los Incas, A merikanistische Studien: Festschrift fur Herman Trimborn, Roswith Hartmann,
Udo Oberem, herausgeber (St. Augustin: Haus Vlker und Kulturen, Anthropos-Institut, 1978),
vol. 1, p. 170-181.
8075. Fock, Niels and Eva Krener. Informe sobre El viaje de investigacin etnogrfica
danesa 1973-1974 a los indios caari de Ecuador, Revista del Instituto A zuayo de Folklore, 7 (jul.
1981), 9-26.
Also published in: Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 7 (nov. 1981), 9-26.
8076. Holm, Olaf. Ignacio, la alfarera de Cerro Alto (Ecuador), Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 17:33 (1967), 240-284.
Cerro Alto is in the Province of Caar.
8077. Holm, Olaf. La tcnica alfarera de Jatunpampa (Ecuador), Cuadernos de historia y
arqueologa, 11:27 (1961), 153-229.
8078. Krener, Eva. Juncal: en Indianerkommune i Ecuador. Copenhagen: Nationalmuseet,
1977. 128 p.
8079. Meisch, Lynn A. Abel Rodas, the Last Ikat Poncho Weaver in Chordeleg, El
Palacio, 87:4 (Winter 1981/1982), 27-32.
8080. Meisch, Lynn A. The Caari People: Their Costume and Weaving, El Palacio, 86:3
(Fall 1980), 15-26.
Items 8079 and 8080 are important contributions to the scant literature on indigenous crafts
in Ecuador. Furthermore, they are well written and illustrated.
8081. Meisch, Lynn A. Spinning in Ecuador, Spin-Off, 4 (1980), 24-29.
8082. Robles Lopez, Marco. Teogona y demiurgos en la cultura Caar, 2 ed. aum. Cuenca:
Latina Editores, 1988. 99 p.
8083. Salomon, Frank. Ancestors, Grave Robbers, and the Possible Antecedents of Caari
Incaism, N atives and N eighbors in South A merica: A nthropological Essays, edited by Harold O.
Skar and Frank Salomon (Gothenburg: Gteborgs Etnografiska Museum, 1987), p. 207-232.
8084. Zaruma Quishpilema, Bolvar Luis. Hatun Caar apunchichunamanta nishcallata
yuyashca = Mitos y creencias de hatun Caar. Cuenca: Misin Luterana, 1989. 2 v. (295 p.)
In Quichua and Spanish.
8085. Zaruma Quishpelema, Bolvar Luis. Identidad de hatun Caar a travs de su folklore =
Imashina causashcacunahuan hatun Caar ima laya cashcata ricuchicushcamanta. Cuenca: Monsalve
Moreno Ca. Ltda., 1990. 2 v. (244 p.)
In Quichua and Spanish.
OTAVALE OS
Apparently Otavaleos now prefer to be called Otavalos, but I have retained the traditional
usage if for no other reason than it was prevalent at the time this bibliography was compiled.
8086. Ares Queija, Berta. Los corazas: ritual andino en Otavalo, 1 ed. Otavalo: Instituto
Otavaleo de Antropologa; Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1988. 176 p.
Describes and analyzes the Coraza ritual, as held in San Rafael de la Laguna, during Holy
Week, and the celebration of San Luis Obispo in Aug.
8087. Barlett, Peggy F. Reciprocity and the San Juan Fiesta, Journal of A nthropological
Research, 36:1 (Spring 1980), 116-130.
A study of the role of reciprocity in the San Juan fiesta among Otavaleos. In this age the
gifts exchanged are alcohol. The specific community studied was Agato. The field research was
undertaken in 1970 and 1977.
8088. Buitrn, Anbal. Fiestas indgenas en Otavalo: San Lus, Boletn de informaciones
cientficas nacionales (Quito), 20/21 (1949), 62-66.
8089. Buitrn, Anbal. Panorama de la aculturacin en Otavalo, Ecuador, A mrica
Indgena, 22:4 (oct./dic. 1962), 313-322.
8090. Buitrn, Anbal. La situacin econmica y social del indio otavaleo, A mrica
indgena, 7:1 (ene./mar. 1947), 45-62.
8091. Buitrn, Anbal. Taita Imbabura: vida indgena en los A ndes. Quito: Misin Andina,
1964. 107 p.
8092. Buitrn, Anbal; and Barbara Salisbury Buitrn. Indios, blancos, y mestizos en
Otavalo, Ecuador, A cta americana, 3:3 (jul./sept. 1945), 190-216.
8093. Casagrande, Joseph. The Looms of Otavalo, N atural History, 86:8 (Aug. 1977), 4859.
8094. Collier, John, Jr.; and Anbal Buitrn. T he Awakening Valley. Otavalo: Instituto
Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1971. 196 p.
Photofacsimile reprint; originally published: Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1949.
Also published in Spanish as: El valle del amanecer, 1 ed. en espaol. Otavalo: Instituto
Otavaleo de Antropologa, 1971. 199 p.
The classic account of the Otavaleos.
8095. Colloredo-Mansfeld, Rudi. Architectural Conspicuous Consumption and Economic
Change in the Andes, A merican A nthropologist, 96:4 (Dec. 1994), 845-865.
A study of the economic and social roles of architecture among otavaleos in the late
twentieth century. The community studied is Ariasucu. The field work was conducted between
1991 and 1994.
8096. Chavez, Leo R. Commercial Weaving and the Entrepreneurial Ethnic: Otavalo
Indian Views of Self and the World. 1982. xii, 319 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford
University.
8097. DAmico, Linda. Artesana e identidad cultural: una cuestin de historia, ideologa y
eleccin, Ecuador indgena: sincretismo y identidad en las culturas nativas de la sierra norte (item
8027), p. 1-88.
8098. Hein, Kurt. Radio Bahai, Ecuador: a Bahai Development Project. Oxford: G. Ronald,
1988. vi, 215 p.
8099. Iturralde G., Diego A. Guamote: campesinos y comunas. Otavalo: Instituto Otavaleo
de Antropologa, 1980. 221 p.
8100. Meisch, Lynn. Otavalo: Weaving, Costume and the Market. Quito: Libri Mundi, 1987.
189 p.
A detailed study of traditional weaving and production for the tourist trade, autochthonous
clothing, and recourse to trade for profit among the Otavaleos. Based extensive field research,
conducted on and off between 1978 and 1986. Well illustrated, but unfortunately, not in color.
8101. N uestras comunidades: ayer y hoy = N ucanchic aillu llactacuna naupa: cunan pachapash,
[Tanya Korovkin et al.], 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1994. 120 p.
An introduction to Otavaleo communities and to their history. In Spanish and Quichua.
8102. Parsons, Elsie Clews. Peguche: a Study of A ndean Indians. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1945. viii, 225 p.
The first ethnographic study of an Ecuadorian community. Based on field research conducted
in 1940 and 1941.
8103. Rivera, Fredy. Guangudos, identidad y sobrevivencia: obreros indgenas en las fbricas de
Otavalo. Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1988. 107 p.
8104. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. Punyaro: estudio de antropologa social y cultural de una
comunidad indgena y mestiza. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1956. 422 p.
An ethnographic study of an Indian and mestizo community in the Valley of Otavalo.
8105. Villavicencio Rivadeneira, Gladys. Relaciones intertnicas en Otavalo, Ecuador: una
nacionalidad india en formacin? Mxico: Instituto Indigenista Interamericano, 1973. xxiv, 317
p.
8106. Walter, Lynn E. Interaction and Organization in an Ecuadorian Indian Highland
Community. 1976. vi, 252 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A study of social structure and relations in Carabuela.
SALASACAS
The Salasacas are a small, distinct ethnic group in the Province of Tungurahua southeast of
Ambato. Their community is divided by the road to Baos. As of July, 1997, the history,
language, and ethnography of the Salasacas were poorly known, but see Peter Wogans 1997
doctoral dissertation, Nationalism, Historical Consciousness, and Literacy in Highland
Ecuador (Brandeis University; ix, 316 leaves). They may have been mitimas from what is now
Bolivia in origin. Apparently they speak a distinct dialect of Quichua. See also item 8661.
8111. Carrasco A., Eulalia Salasaca: la organizacin social y el alcalde. Quito: Mundo
Andino, 1982. 135 p.
8112. Colomona, Carlos; and Duncan Pedersen. Salud y enfermedad de un contexto
tnico: Salasacas, Cultura, 7:21 (ene./abr. 1985), 583-635.
8113. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. Los Salasacas.
Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y Geografa, 1959. 171 p. Llacta; no. 8.
8114. Scheller, Ulf. El mundo de los Salasacas, fotografiado por Wulf Weiss. Guayaquil:
Fundacin Antropolgica Ecuatoriana, 1972. 32 p., [44] p. of plates)
In Spanish and English.
SARAGU ROS
The leading authorities on the Saraguros are the spouses Jim Belote and Linda Smith Belote,
and Ruthbeth D. Finerman. As of 1999, Prejuicio y orgullo: relaciones indio-blancos en Saraguro,
Ecuador, the Spanish version of Linda Smith Belotes dissertation (item 8117), to be published
by Abya-Yala, was still in press, but at least Jim Belotes 1984 Montana State University Ph.D.
thesis, Changing Adaptive Strategies among the Saraguros of Southern Ecuador, finally
appeared in 1998 as Los saraguros del sur del Ecuador, 2 ed. [sic] (Quito: Abya-Yala; 404, [14] p).
For Finermans contributions see items 8551-8557.
8115. Belote, Jim; and Linda Smith Belote. The Limitation of Obligation in Saraguro
Kinship, A ndean Kinship and Marriage, edited by Ralph Bolton and Enrique Mayer
(Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association, 1977), p. 106-116.
8116. Belote, Jim; and Linda Smith Belote. El sistema de cargos de fiestas en Saraguro,
Temas sobre la continuidad y adaptacin cultural ecuatoriana (item 7965), p. 47-73.
N.B. Not a Spanish version of item 8119, but a separate study.
8117. Belote, Linda Smith. Prejudice and Pride: Indian White Relations in Saraguro,
Ecuador. 1978. 232 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois, Urbana.
8118. Belote, Linda Smith; and Jim Belote. Development in Spite of Itself: The Saraguro
Case, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 450-476.
Examines the impact of Catholic and Protestant activities in Saraguro on the one hand, and
the Andean Mission and community development on the other, from the 1950s through the
early 1970s.
8119. Belote, Linda Smith and Jim Belote. Drain From the Bottom: Individual Ethnic
Identity Change in Southern Ecuador, Social Forces, 63:1 (Sept. 1984), 24-50.
8120. Caldern, Alfonso. Saraguro Huasi: la casa en la tierra del maz. Quito: Separacin
de Colores, 1985. 431 p.
8121. Masson, Peter. Cholo y china: contenidos situacionales, de dos trminos
intertnicos en Saraguro (Ecuador), Journal de la Socit de amricanistes, 64 (1977), 107-114.
8122. Meisch, Lynn A. Costume and Weaving in Saraguro, Ecuador, Textile Museum
Journal, 19-20 (1980-1981), 55-64.
8123. Punn de Jimnez, Dolores E. Los Saraguros: estudio socio-econmico y cultural,
Revista de antropologa (Cuenca), 5 (dic. 1974), 200-264.
8124. Los Saraguros: fiesta y ritualidad, Luis Aurelio Chaln Guaman [et al.]; compiladores,
Linda y Jim Belote, 1 ed. Quito: Universidad Politcnica Salesiana: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1994. 257 p.
8125. Tual, Anny. Contribution ltude des Indiens Saraguro du Sud de lEquateur. Paris:
Institut Ethnologie, 1965. 2 v.
ORIEN TE
There is no subdivision on the Zaparo because almost no literature exists on this nearly
extinct, if not already extinct, ethnic group--there were only 24 known speakers as of 1991--but
see the chapter by Hctor Vargas in item 8126.
8126. A mazon Worlds: Peoples and Cultures of Ecuadors A mazon Region, [editors] Noemi
Paymal, Catalina Sosa, 1st ed. Quito: Sinchi Sacha Foundation, 1993. 204 p.
A solid, readable introduction to the traditional cultures and surviving ethnic groups--several
of which were on the verge of extinction as of the early 1990s, and may now be extinct--of the
Oriente.
Contents: Juan Aulestia, Preface (p. 13); Catalina Sosa, Introduction (p. 14-16); Ernesto
Salazar, Traces of the Past: the Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Ecuadors Amazon Region
(p. 18-45); Karl Gartelmann, World of the Siona, Secoya and Cofan: the Time of Yag (p. 4663); Noemi Paymal, The World of Huaorani: Daily Life (p. 64-81); Hctor Vargas, The
World of the Zaparo: the Roads to Death (p. 82-95); Dorothea S. Whitten and Norman E.
Whitten, The World of the Canelos Quichua: Culture, Ceramics and Continuity (p. 96-111);
Philippe Descola, The World of the Achuar: the People of the Aguaje Palm (p. 112-129);
Tsawant Chumpi, The World of the Shuar: from Myth to Culture (p. 130-143); Carlos Viteri,
Mythical Worlds: Runa (p. 144-157); Jos Juncosa, The World of the Shaman: the Shaman,
Resident of All Worlds (p. 158-178); Appendices (p. 179-197).
Also published in Spanish as: Mundos amaznicos: pueblos y culturas de la A mazonia
ecuatoriana, 1 ed. Quito: Fundacin Sinchi Sacha, 1993.
8127. A mazonia ecuatoriana: la otra cara del progreso, Norman E. Whitten, Jr. [et al.].
[Suca?]: Mundo Shuar, 1981. 229 p.
Consists of seven essays by anthropologists on the Canelos Quichua, the Shuar, and the
Achuar, originally published in Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item
7939).
Contents: Norman E. Whitten, Jr. La Amazonia actual en la base de los Andes: Una
confluencia tnica en la perspectiva ecolgica, social e ideolgica (p. 11-58); Ernesto Salazar
La Federacin Shuar y la frontera de la colonizacin, traduccin de Margarita Pez (p. 59-82);
Philippe Descola, Del habitat disperso a los asentamientos nucleados: un proceso de cambio
socio-econmico entre los Achuar, traduccin de Eliana Correa e Isabel Salvador (p. 83-113);
Anne-Christine Taylor, La riqueza de Dios: los Achuar y las misiones, traduccin de Vernica
Vela, Clara Correa y Pilar Vilanova (p. 114-143); William Belzner, Msica, modernizacin y
occidentalizacin entre los Shuar de Macuma, traduccin de Lilian Granda de Guayasamn (p.
145-165); Theodore Macdonald, Jr., Respuesta indgena a una frontera de expansin:
conversin econmica de la selva quichua en hacienda ganadera, traduccin de Rose Marie
Jtiva y Sandra Reed (p. 167-194); and Dorothea Whitten, A n tiguas tradicion es en un con texto
con temporn eo: cermica y simbolismo de los C an elos Q uich ua en la regin amazn ica ecuat orian a, traduccin de
Vern ica Surez, Loren a Barberis, In s A bdo, ( p. 195-227).
8129. Caldern, Alfonso. Vivienda, medio ambiente y cambio de las estructuras sociales,
Cultura, 8:24c (ene./abr. 1986), 725-741.
Examines impact of incorporation into national society and market economy on the Shuar
and Achuar, Siona and Secoya, Quilota, Salasaca, and Awa (or Cuaiquer).
8130. Cern Solarte, Benhur. El manejo indgena de la selva pluvial tropical: orientaciones para
un desarrollo sostenido, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Roma: Movimiento Laicos para
Amrica Latina, 1991. 256 p.
8131. Fugler, Charles M.; and Wallace L. Swanson. Biological and Ethnological
Observations on the Cofn, Secoya, and Awishiri Indians of Eastern Tropical Ecuador,
Proceedings of the Oklahoma A cademy of Science, 51 (1971), 106-119.
8132. Gil, Richard C. Curari, the Flying Death, N atural History, 36 (Nov. 1935), 278292.
8133. Hames, Raymond B.; and William T. Vickers. Teoras sobre las respuestas
adaptativas de los nativos de la Amazonia, Hombre y ambiente (Quito), 1:3 (jul./sept. 1987), 4589.
8134. Macdonald, Theodore, Jr. Tierras indgenas en Ecuador: un estudio de caso,
A mrica indgena, 43:3 (jul./set. 1983), 555-568.
A study of the differential success of the Canelos Quichua and Shuar on the one hand and of
the Cofan, Siona and Secoya, and Huaorani on the other in retention of their habitats and
therefore territories.
8135. Naranjo, Marcelo F. Zonas de refugio y adaptacin tnica en el Oriente: siglos XVIXVII-XVIII, Temas sobre la continuidad y adaptacin cultural ecuatoriana (item xxxx), p. 105-169.
8136. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. La familia etnolingstica Zpara, Ethos, 1 (1975), 3-30.
8137. Poblacin indgena y desarrollo amaznico, Ministerio de Bienestar Social, Oficina
Nacional de Asuntos Indgenas. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1984. 157 p.
Consists of papers and statements on Indians of the Amazon by various groups and
individuals, including representatives of the Oficina Nacional de Asuntos Indgenas (Ecuador),
in light of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty of 1978.
8138. Relaciones intertnicas y adaptacin cultural entre Shuar, A chuar, A guaruna y Canelos
Quichua, 44 Congreso de Americanistas, Manchester 1982. Quito: Mundo Shuar: Ediciones
Abya-Yala, 1984. 266 p.
Papers presented at 44th International Congress of Americanistas (Manchester, 1982).
Partial contents: Luis M. Uriarte, Reductores reducidos?: fronteras tnicas de los JbaroAchuara (p. 16-44); Charlotte Seymour Smith, Estrategia e identidad: transformaciones en la
sociedad jvaro peruana (p. 46-54); Carlos Zanutto, Relaciones con otros grupos tnicos y
adaptaciones culturales en la poltica oficial de la Federacin Shuar: principios y casos
concretos (p. 56-74); Michael F. Brown, La cara oscura del progreso: el suicidio entre los
Aguaruna del Lago Mayo (p. 76-88); Anne Christine Taylor, La alianza matrimonial y sus
variaciones estructurales en las sociedades jvaro (p. 90-108); Messimo Amadio and A. Luca
DEmilio, La alianza entre los Candosp Murato del Alto Amazonas (p. 110-122); Eric B. Ross,
La evolucin de la economa de los Jvaros en el contexto de la economa mundial p. 124143); Lionel Vallee and Robert R. Crepeau, La guerra entre los Shuar (Jvaro): la bsqueda del
poder (p. 172-190); Norman E. Whitten, Jr. Hacia la conceptualizacin del poder en la
Amazonia ecuatoriana (p. 192-210); Antonio Colajanni, Prcticas chamanicas y cambio
social: la muerte de un hechicero achuar, hechos e interpretaciones (p. 228-249); and Domingo
Bottasso, Las misiones y la aculturacin de los Shuar (p. 253-264).
8139. Robinson, Scott S. El etnocidio ecuatoriano. Mxico, D.F.: Universidad
Iberoamericana, 1971. 37 p.
In this and item 8140 Robinson argues that between internal colonialism (that is to say,
the colonization of the Oriente by highlanders) and the economic exploitation of the regions
natural resources, especially petroleum, the ethnic groups of the Upper Amazon Basin will be
absorbed or eliminated. That is Ecuadorian ethnocide.
8140. Robinson, Scott S. Some Aspects of the Spontaneous Colonization of the Selva
Communities of Ecuador, T he Situation of the Indian in South A merica: Contributions to the Study
of Inter-Ethnic Conflict in the N on-A ndean Regions of South A merica, edited by W. Dostal
(Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1972), p. 108-114.
8141. Romero Simancas, Nelson. La cultura selvcola frente a los problemas
contemporneos y la situacin de las poblaciones indgenas selvcolas del Ecuador, A mrica
indgena, 34:3 (jul./sept. 1974), 713-739.
8142. Steward, Julian H.; and Alfred Mtraux. Tribes of the Peruvian and Ecuadorian
Montaa, Handbook of South A merican Indians, Julian H. Steward, editor, vol. 3
(Washington,D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1947), p. 535-656.
Considerably dated but important to the extent that it constituted a more or less valid
portrait of ethnic groups of the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Oriente as of the early 1940s. See esp.
p. 617-656.
8143. Tschopik, Harry. Indians of the Montaa. New York: American Museum of Natural
History, 1952. 23 p.
ACHU AR (Jvaros)
See also SHU AR
As of the early 1990s there were about 3,000 Achuar in the Provinces of Pastaza and
Morona-Santiago. The two principal authorities on this group were the husband and wife team
of Philippe Descola and Anne Christine Taylor, who spent more than two years among the
Achuar in the late 1970s. In addition to the works listed below, see Philippe Descolas Les lances
du crpuscule: relations jivaros, Haute A mazon (Paris: Librairie Plon, 1993; 505 p.), also published
in English as: T he Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the A mazon Jungle (New York: The New
Press, 1996; 458 p.). Les lances du crpuscule is much more readable than his La nature
domestique--Descolas rite de passage into the increasingly arcane realms of academic
anthropology.
Not incidentally the disparate way in which Descolas La nature domestique and Les lances du
crpuscule have been subject headed and classified exemplify why library catalog records are
increasingly useless to scholars. La nature domestique has as Library of Congress subject headings:
Achuar Indians -- Agriculture; Achuar Indians -- Social conditions; Achuar Indians -Religion; Human ecology -- Amazon River Region; Subsistence economy -- Amazon River
Region; and Conservation of natural resources -- Amazon River Region. And was classified
by the Library of Congress under Achuar Indians (F3430.1.A25). Les lances du crpuscule, on
the other hand, is Library of Congress subject headed Jivaran Indians -- Social conditions and
Amazon River Region -- Social conditions, and classified under Jivaran Indians
(F2230.2.J58). But both works are about not just the Achuar and therefore not two or more of
the four ethnic groups in the Upper Amazon Basin that constitute the so-called Jivaran family,
but the exact same families and individuals.
8144. Arnalot, Jos. Lo que los A chuar me han enseado, 3 ed. Suca: Ediciones Mundo
Shuar, 1992. 266 p.
8145. Descola, Philippe. From Scattered to Nucleated Settlement: a Process of
Socioeconomic Change among the Achuar, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern
Ecuador (item 7939), p. 614-646.
Examines the impact of what amounts to the reduction of the Achuar to caseros centered on
airstrips opened by Catholic Salesians and Protestant missionaries, beginning in the 1970s, and
the impact of settlement or village life on an ethnic group that traditionally lived in widely
dispersed households. Also published in Spanish in item 8127. See also item 8157.
8146. Descola, Philippe. Homeostasis as a Cultural System: the Jivaro Case, A mazonian
Indians from Prehistory to the Present: A nthropological Perspectives, edited by Anna Roosevelt
(Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1994), p. 203-224.
8147. Descola, Philippe. In the Society of N ature: A N ative Ecology in A mazonia.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. xviii, 372 p.
Revised English version of La nature domestique (item 8149).
8148. Descola, Philippe. El jardn del colibr: procesos de trabajo y categorizaciones
sexuales entre los Achuar del Ecuador, Cultura, 7:19 (mayo/ago. 1984), 33-61.
Originally published in French as: Le jardin de colibr: procs de travail et catgorisations
sexuales chez les Achuar de lEquateur, LHomme, 33:1 (jan./mar. 1983), 61-89.
8149. Descola, Philippe. La nature domestique: symbolisme et praxis dans lecologie des A chuar.
Paris: Editions de la Maison des sciences de lhomme, 1986. 450 p.
The Canelos Quichua are also known as Pastaza Quichua after the Province in which this
group lives. As of the early 1990s, together with the Quijos or Napo Quichua (on whom see
items 8202-8205), they numbered about 60,000. The Canelo Quichua have been more or less
well studied, unlike the Quijos Quichua. The Canelos Quichua are several centuries old. They
appear to have emerged towards the end of the 1600s, under the protection of Dominican
missionaries. The Canelos Quichua are made up of descendants of highland Indians, and
acculturated Zparos (all but, if not already, extinct as a distinct ethnic group as of the 1990s),
Gaes, Quijos (long since extinct as a separate ethnic group), Shuar, and Achuar.
8168. Sacha pacha: mitos, poesas, sueos y refranes de los Quichua amaznicos, [recopilacin
de] Juan Santos Ortiz de Villalba. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala: Roma, MLAL, 1989. 309 p.
In Spanish and Quichua.
8169. Sacha pacha: el mundo de la selva, [relatos bilinges recogidos y redactados por] Juan
Santos Ortiz de Villalba, ed. bilinge. Quito: CICAME, 1976. 159 p.
In Spanish and Quichua.
8170. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Amazonia Today at the Base of the Andes: An Ethnic
Interface in Ecological, Social, and Ideological Perspectives, Cultural Transformations and
Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 121-161.
A revision of the authors A mazonian Ecuador: an Ethnic Interface in Ecological, Social, and
Ideological Perspectives (Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs, 1978; 80
p.; IWGIA Document; 34). Also published in Spanish in item 8127.
A solid introduction to the contemporary languages and cultures of the autochthonous
ethnic groups of the Oriente.
8171. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Ecologa de las relaciones culturales al noroeste del
Ecuador, A mrica indgena, 30:2 (abr./jun. 1970), 345-358.
8172. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Ecological Imagery and Cultural Adaptability: The Canelos
Quichua of Eastern Ecuador, A merican A nthropolgoist, 80:4 (Dec. 1978), 836-859.
8173. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Ecuadorian Ethnocide and Indigenous Ethnogenesis: A mazonian
Resurgence A midst A ndean Colonialism. Copenhagen: International Work Group for Indigenous
Affairs, 1976. 39 p.
Also published in: Journal of Ethnic Studies, 4:2 (Summer 1976), 1-22. And in Spanish as:
Etnocidio ecuatoriano y etnognesis indgena: la resurgencia amaznica ante el colonialismo
andino, A mrica indgena, 39:3 (jul./set. 1979), 529-562.
8174. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Jungle Quechua Ethnicity: an Ecuadorian Case Study,
Ethnicity and Resource Competition in Plural Societies, editor, Leo A. Despres (The Hague:
Mouton, 1975), p. 41-69.
8175. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Sacha Runa: Ethnicity and A daptation of Ecuadorian Jungle
Quichua, with the assistance of Marcelo F. Naranjo, Marcelo Santi Simbana, Dorothea S.
Whitten. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976. xviii, 348 p.
Also published in Spanish as: Sacha runa: etnicidad y adaptacin de los quichua hablantes de la
A mazonia ecuatoriana. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1987. 367 p.
8176. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. Sicuanga Runa: T he Other Side of Development in A mazonian
Ecuador. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xi, 314 p.
Items 8175 and 8176 are major contributions to the ethnology of the Canelos Quichua,
notwithstanding Whittens infelicity of style--he writes in an admixture of jargon, Quichua,
other indigenous languages of the region, and Spanish--and inadequate grounding in the history
of the region.
8177. Whitten, Norman E., Jr. and Dorothea S. Whitten. The Structure of Kinship and
Marriage among the Canelos Quichua of East-Central Ecuador, Marriage Practices in Lowland
South A merica, edited by Kenneth M. Kensinger (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984), p.
194-220.
COFAN ES
As of the early 1990s, there were approximately 500 Cofanes living along the Upper
Aguaricio River, the Sinange River, and the Ecuadorian-Colombian border. The Cofanes
appear to be a pre-Hispanic group. They are known to have resisted the Inca incursion led by
Huayna Capac. Reduced in the second half of the twentieth century by Protestant missionaries
associated with the SIL to several large, nucleated settlements, the Cofanes have not been well
studied but see also the doctoral dissertations by Pinkley (item 8182) and Robinson (item 8183).
HUAORAN I (Aucas)
The Huaorani or Waorani, formerly know to the outside world, pejoratively, as Aucas--a
generic term for enemies in Quechua and Quichua--were not well known as of the late 1990s,
and may still not be well known. Traditionally the majority of information and misinformation
came from the accounts of missionaries and travelers. But there are now some scholarly studies
based on field work. The ancestral group of the Huaorani may have been the Aushiri, who were
supposed to have been numerous at the beginning of the seventeenth century. But Laura
Rival maintains that the Aushiri were in fact Zparos. What are facts is that prior to the 1956
massacre of the five North American evangelicals, hardly anything was known about these
people, and that since then, much of our information comes from studies undertaken or
sponsored by the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
8185. Baumann, Peter; and Erwin Patzelt. Menschen im Regenwald: Expedition A uka.
Dusseldorf: Droste, 1975. 243 p.
A show and tell book about the Huaorani and their territory. The text is by Baumann and
the photographs are by Patzelt.
Also published in French as: Les hommes de la foret de la pluie. Paris: Seghers, 1979. 290 p.
8186. Blomberg, Rolf. T he N aked A ucas: A n A ccount of the Indians of Ecuador, translated by
F.H. Lyon. London: G. Allen, 1956. 191 p.
Recollections of 1949 expedition into Auca country. Primarily an adventure tale.
Originally published in Swedish as: Vildar, en Berttelse om A ucaindianerna i Ecuador.
Stockholm: Il. Geber, 1949. 275 p. Also published in Spanish as: Los A ucas desnudos: una
resea de los indios del Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1996. 198 p.
8187. Broennimann, Peter. A uca of the Cononaco: Indians of the Ecuadorian Rain Forest.
Basel: Birkhuser Verlag, 1981. 184 p.
8188. Elliot, Elisabeth. T he Savage My Kinsman. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. 159
p.
A pseudo-ethnographic account by the widow of one of the five Protestant missionaries killed
by Huaorani in 1956. Includes a foreword and photographs by Cornell Capa, a professional
photographer for Life, the magazine. Should be read not so much as an account of the Aucas,
but as a memoir by a Protestant Evangelical missionary of her efforts together with those of
other missionaries to evangelize and civilize savages.
8189. Gartelmann, Karl Dieter. El mundo perdido de los A ucas = T he Lost World of the
A ucas, 1 ed. Quito: Impr. Mariscal, 1977. 228 p.
In Spanish, English, and German.
8190. Grau, Joaquin. Mi vida con los A ucas, 1 ed. Barcelona: Plaza & Janes, 1987. 219 p.
8191. Kane, Joe. Savages, 1st ed. New York: Knopf, 1995. xi, 273 p.
Recounts the not altogether unsuccessful efforts of a Huaorani leader to obtain aid from the
North American and Ecuadorian governments to stop the exploitation of his peoples territory
by Maxus Energy and other petroleum companies. An engaging and eminently readable portrait
of a people and a culture that few outsiders understand and even fewer seem capable of depicting
in intelligible prose.
8192. Karttunen, Frances. Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors. New
Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1994. 364 p.
Includes a chapter on Dayome (aka Dayuma), the Huaorani woman who served as an
intermediary between some of her people and Rachael Saint.
8193. N aufragos del mar verde: la resistencia de los Huaorani a una integracin impuesta,
Giovanna Tassi, coordinadora. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala : Confederacin de Nacionalidades
Indgenas de la Amazonia Ecuatoriana, 1992. 178 p.
8194. Parlow, Anita. Worlds in Collision: As Petroleum Development Encroaches on
Their Lands, Amazonias Huaorani People Relize They Must Organize To Survive It, A micus
Journal, 13 (Spring 1991), 33-37.
8195. Patzelt, Erwin. Hijos de la selva ecuatoriana: de brujos y bodequeros, una contribucin a la
antropologa. Guayaquil: Colegio Alemn Humboldt, 1973. [42] p. Chiefly ill.
8196. Rival, Laura. The Growth of Family Trees: Understanding Huaorani Perceptions of
the Forest, Man, 28:4 (Dec. 1993), 635-652.
Maintains that the Huaoranis conceptualization of their society is informed by their
perceptions of differential growth processes in their forest environment, as well as by certain
important symbiotic relations existing between plants, animals and people.
8197. Rival, Laura. Los indgenas Huaorani en la conciencia nacional: alteridad
representada y significada, Imgines e imagineros (item 1940), p. 253-292.
Examines the negative image of the Aucas as of 1956, when they assassinated five
Protestant missionaries, and were therefore bad savages, and as of 1987, when two Catholics
religious, a bishop and nun, were killed, but this time around by good savages. The point of
this essay is that very few outsiders, including scholars who pride themselves on their objectivity,
have attempted to acquaint themselves with the Huaorani as a people with a culture and a
polity of their own.
8198. Smith, Randy. Drama bajo el manto amaznico: el turismo y otros problemas de los
Huaorani en la actualidad = Crisis under the Canopy: Tourism and Other Problems Facing the Present
Day Huaorani , 1 ed. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1993. xxiii, 375 p.
In Spanish and English.
8199. Yost, James A. El desarrollo comunitario y la supervivencia etnica: el caso de los Huaorani,
A mazonia ecuatoriana. Quito: Instituto Lingstico de Verano, 1979. 29 p.
8200. Yost, James A. Twenty Years of Contact: the Mechanisms of Change in Wao
(<Auca) Culture, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 677704.
The years in question are 1958-1977. Focuses on two agents of change, the Summer Institute
of Linguistics (including the author himself as well as the controversial Rachael Saint) and
quichuaized Huaorani women such as Dayome.
8201. Yost, James A.; and Patricia M. Kelley. Shotguns, Blowguns, and Spears: the
Analysis of Technological Efficiency, A daptive Responses of N ative A mazonians, edited by
Raymond B. Hames [and] William T. Vickers (New York: Academic Press, 1983), p. 189-224.
Demonstrates that shotguns (modern technology) are not necessarily more effective than
blowguns and spears (traditional technology) in hunting and that the Huaorani apparently have
no preference but employ shotguns, blowguns, or spears in accordance with the type of game
sought.
QU IJOS QU ICHU A
Also known as Napo Quichua, as of the 1990s, this group had not been well studied by
anthropologists and other scholars. But see also Udo Oberems ethnohistory thereof, Los Quijos
(item 6509).
SHU AR (Jvaros)
See also Josep Maria Fericglas Los Jbaros, cazadores de sueos: diario de un antroplogo entre los
Shuar: experimentos con la ayawasca. Barcelona: Integral, 1994. 320 p.
8206. Allioni, Miguel. La vida del pueblo shuar. Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1978. 235 p.
8207. Alvarez Mio, Carlos. Las selvas del Oriente ecuatoriano: costumbres del Jbaro, ed.
ilustrada. Quito: Edit. Artes Grficas, 1934. x, 187 p.
8208. Amaluiza, Cecilia; and Mariana Segovia. Un grupo shuar amarginado y dependiente.
Suca: Mundo Shuar, [1972?]. 175 p.
8209. Antun Tsamaraint, Raquel Y.; and Vctor Hilario Chiriap Inchit. Tsentsak: la
experiencia chamnica en el pueblo shuar. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Bomboiza: Instituto
Normal Bilinge Intercultural Shuar-Bomboiza, 1991. 145 p.
Consists of two separate studies: Raquel Y. Antun Tsamaraint, El papel del uwishin en la
vida social y repercusin de la brujera en la vida diaria; and Vctor Hilario Chiriap Inchit, La
experiencia chamnica en el pueblo shuar.
8210. A rtesanas y tcnicas shuar, Csar Bianchi [et al.]. Quito: Ediciones Mundo Shuar,
1982. 475 p.
8211. Barrueco, Domingo. Mitos y leyendas shuar. Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1985. 106 p.
8212. Belzner, William. Music, Modernization, and Westernization among the Macuma
Shuar, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 731-748.
Argues that Shuar responses, at least in the case of Macuma, to westernizing and modernizing
pressures are contained in nuclear, unelaborated form in their musical conceptual system and
acted out within the values shaping their traditional ethos. Also published in Spanish in item
8127.
8213. Bianchi, Csar. A dornos. Suca: Centro de Documentacin, Investigacin y
Publicaciones, 1978. 81 p.
8214. Bianchi, Csar. La casa shuar. Suca: Centro de Documentacin, Investigacin y
Publicaciones, 1978. 73 p.
8215. Bianchi, Csar. La cocina y la comida. Suca: Centro de Documentacin,
Investigacin y Publicaciones, 1978. 83 p.
8216. Bianchi, Csar. Hombre y mujer en la sociedad shuar. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1989. 136 p.
Reprint; originally published: Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1983.
8217. Bianchi, Csar. El Shuar y el ambiente: conocimiento del medio y cacera no destructiva.
Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1981. 270 p.
8218. Bitsch, Jorgen. Jivaro. Copenhagen: Grafisk Forlag, 1958. 191 p.
Also published in English as: A cross the River of Death: True A dventure in the Green Hell of the
A mazon. London: Souvenir Press, 1958. 200 p.
8219. Caldern, Alfonso. La vivienda shuar y achuar en su entorno socio-cultural y
geogrfico, La Regin amaznica ecuatoriana (item 6541), p. 25-49.
8220. Colinari, Giusseppie Angelo. Osservazioni etnografiche sui Givari. Roma: Salviucci,
1883. 47 p.
8221. Cotlow, Lewis Nathaniel. A mazon Head-Hunters. New York: Holt, 1953. 245 p.
8222. Chinkim, Juank Luis A.; Mankash Ral Petsein U.; and Juan Jos Jimpikit M. El tigre
y la anaconda. Bomboiza: Instituto Bilinge Intercultural Shuar; Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, ,
1987. 178 p.
Contents: Juank Luis A. Chinkim, Arutam, fuerza espiritual del Shuar; Mankash Ral
Petsein U., Arutam, protector del hombre shuar; and Juan Jos Jimpikit M., Mundo espiritual y
espritu en la concepcin shuar.
8223. Chumpi Kayap, Mara Magdalena. Los anent: expresin religiosa y familiar de los
Shuar. Bomboiza: Instituto Normal Bilinge Intercultural Shuar; Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala,
1985. 64 p.
8224. Descola, Philippe; and Anne-Christine Taylor. El conjunto jvaro en los comienzos
de la conquista espaola del Alto Amazonas, Bulletin de lInstitut franais dtudes andines, 10:3/4
(1981), 7-54.
8225. Dolinger, Jane. T he Head With the Long Yellow Hair. London: R. Hale, 1958. 189 p.
The authors experiences during an expedition through Jivaro territory.
8226. La Familia shuar y la vida social, Juan Bottasso, [compilador]. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1988.
108 p.
8227. Flornoy, Bertrand. Haut-A mazone: trois franais, chez les Indiens reducteurs de tetes.
Paris: Plon, 1939. vi, 273 p.
Semi-adventure, semi-ethnography.
Also published in English as: Jivaro: among the Headwaters of the A mazon, translated by Jean
Pace. New York: Elek, 1953. 224 p. And in Spanish as: A lto A mazonas, traduccin de Jacobo
Danke. Santiago de Chile: Zig-Zag, 1940. 251 p. The headwaters in question correspond to the
Bobonaza River.
8228. Galliani, Eduardo. Los Shuares del Ecuador se organizan ante el reto del futuro,
Geomundo (Panam), 3 (mar. 1986), 275-288.
8229. Gnerre, Maurizio. The Decline of Dialogue: Ceremonial and Mythological Discourse
among the Shuar and the Achuar, N ative South A merican Discourse, edited by Joel Sherzer and
Greg Urban (Berlin: Mouton, 1986), p. 307-341.
8230. Hanzelka, Jir; and Miroslav Zikmund. A mazon Headhunters, translated by Olga
Kuthanov. Prague: Artia, 1963. 299 p.
Unfortunately the library records I saw of this work are incorrect. It should be entered under
Zikmund as he is the first author named. An account of the authorss 1949(?) adventures and
misadventures by car in Guayaquil, up to Quito, around and about the highlands, and down into
Jivaro country. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white photographs.
8231. Harner, Michael J. T he Jivaro: People of the Sacred Waterfalls. Garden City:
Doubleday for the American Museum of Natural History, 1972. 233 p.
Reprinted with a new preface by the author, including a bibliographic update: Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1984. xx, 233 p.
Also published in Spanish as: Shuar: pueblo de las cascadas sagradas, 3 ed. Quito: Ediciones
Abya-Yala, 1994. 237 p.
8232. Harner, Michael J. Technological and Social Change among the Eastern Jivaro,
A ctas y memorias, XXXVII Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, Repblica Argentina,
1986, vol. 1 (Buenos Aires: Departamento de Publicaciones Cientficas Argentinas, 1968), p.
363-388.
8233. Hendricks, Janet Wall. Images of Tradition: Ideological Transformations among the
Shuar. 1986. xii, 279 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1986.
8234. Hendricks, Janet Wall. Manipulating Time in an Amazonian Society: Genre and
Event among the Shuar, Journal of Folklore Research, 27:1/2 (Jan./Aug. 1990), 11-28.
8235. Hendricks, Janet Wall. Power and Knowledge: Discourse and Ideological
Transformation among the Shuar, A merican Ethnologist, 15:2 (May 1989), 216-237.
8236. Hendricks, Janet Wall. Symbolic Counterhegemony among the Ecuadorian Shuar,
N ation-States and Indians in Latin A merica, edited by Greg Urban and Joel Sherzer (Austin:
University of Texas Press, 1991), p. 53-70.
Argues that the Shuar resist loss of cultural identity and incorporation into national (i.e.,
Ecuadorian) culture through the use of correct rhetoric, achieved through visions.
8237. Hendricks, Janet Wall. To Drink of Death: T he N arrative of a Shuar Warrior. Tucson:
University of Arizona Press, 1993. xiv, 316 p.
Transcribes, translates, and dissects the life story of Tukup, one of the last traditional
Shuar warriors. Employs discourse and qualitative analysis. Written for specialists.
8238. Jimpikit, Carmelina; and Gladys Antun. Los nombres shuar: significado y conservacin .
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala; Bomboiza: Instituto Normal Bilinge Intercultural ShuarBomboiza, 1991. 114 p.
8239. Johnson, Paul C. Shamanism from Ecuador to Chicago: a Case Study in New Age
Ritual Appropriation, Religion, 25:2 (Apr. 1995), 163-178.
8240. Karsten, Rafael. Bland indianer i Ekvadors urskogar: tre ars resor och forskningar.
Helsinki: Soderstrom, 1920-1921. 2 v. in 1 (406 p.).
Also published in Spanish as: Entre los indios de las selvas del Ecuador: tres aos de viajes e
investigaciones, 1 ed. en castellano. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1998. 397 p.
8241. Karsten, Rafael. Blood Revenge, War and Victory Feasts A mong the Jibaro Indians of
Eastern Ecuador. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology,
1923. 94 p.
8242. Karsten, Rafael. Contributions to the Sociology of the Indian Tribes of Ecuador: T hree
Essays. New York: AMS Press, 1980. 75 p.
Reprint; originally published: Abo: Abo Akademi, 1920.
8243. Karsten, Rafael. T he Headhunters of Western A mazonas: the Life and Culture of the
Jivaro Indians of Eastern Ecuador and Peru. New York: AMS Press, 1979. xvi, 598 p.
Reprint; originally published: Helsingfors: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 1935. Also
published in Spanish as: La vida y la cultura de los Shuar, 1 ed. Guayaquil: Museo, Banco
Central del Ecuador; Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1988-1989. 2 v.
The first comprehensive as well as ethnographically sound study of the Shuar.
8244. Karsten, Rafael. Mitos de los indios Jbaros (Shuara) del Oriente del Ecuador,
Boletn de la Sociedad Ecuatoriana de Estudios Histricos A mericanos, 2:4 (mayo/jun. 1919), 325339.
8245. Karsten, Rafael. The Religion of the Jibaro Indians of Eastern Ecuador, Boletn de la
A cademia N acional de Historia, 3:6 (jul./ago. 1921), 124-145; 4:10/11 (mar./jun. 1922), 309-330.
8246. Kroeger, Axel; and Franoise Barbira-Freedman. Cultural Change and Health: T he
Case of South A merican Rainforest Indians with Special Reference to the Shuar/A chuar of Ecuador.
Frankfurt: Verlag Peter Lang, 1982. 65 p.
Also published in Spanish as: Cambio cultural y salud: con especial referencia a los Shuar-A chuar.
Suca: Ediciones Mundo Shuar, 1984. 120 p.
8247. Lombardo Otero de Soto, Rosa Mara. Los Jbaros. Mxico, D.F.: [s.n.], 1950. 116 p.
8248. Mashinkias, Manuel; and Mariana Awak Tentets. La selva, nuestra vida: sabidura
ecolgica del pueblo shuar. Quito: Abya Yala; Morona Santiago: Instituto Bilinge Intercultural
Shuar, 1986. 129 p.
8249. Munzel, Mark. Schrumpfkopf-Macher?: Jibaro-Indianer in Sudamerika. Frankfurt am
Main: Museum fur Volkerkunde, 1977. 424 p.
8250. Muriel, Ins. Contribucin a la cultura musical de los Jvaros del Ecuador, Folklore
americano, 21 (jun. 1976), 141-157.
A brief study of the musical instruments employed by Shuar and representative examples of
drinking songs, songs of war, songs of love, and the Canto de pjaro tucn. The author is a
professional musicologist.
8251. Napolitano, Emanuela. Shuar y anent: el canto sagrado en la historia de un pueblo.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1988. iii, 200 p.
A descriptive and interpretative study of sacred songs (anent).
8252. Pellizzaro, Siro M. A rutam: mitos de los espritus y ritos para propiciarlos: A rutam.
Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1976. 195 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 1)
8253. Pillizzaro, Siro M. A rutam: mitologa shaur, 1 ed. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala:
Movimientos Laicos para Amrica Latina, 1990. 261 p.
8254. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Ayumpm: la reduccin de las cabezas cortadas. Suca: Mundo
Shuar, 1980. 322 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 5)
8255. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Cultura shuar: una civilizacin desconocida: investigaciones realizadas
en idoma Shuar. Cuenca: Edit. Don Bosco, 1972. 82 p.
Cover title: Leyendas shauras: Oriente ecuatoriano.
8256. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Etsa e Iwia: la lucha eterna. Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1977. 141 p.
(Mitologa Shuar; t. 6)
Cover title: Etsa: defensor del pueblo shuar.
8257. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Etsa: el modelo del hombre shuar. Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1982. 301
p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 7)
8258. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Iwianch: el mundo de los muertos. Suca: Mundo Shuar, [1978?].
255 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 12)
8259. Pellizzaro, Siro M. N unkui: el modelo de la mujer shuar. Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1978.
258 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 8)
8260. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Shakaim: mitos de la selva y del desmonte. Suca: Mundo Shuar,
1977. 210 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 10)
8261. Pellizzaro, Siro M. T cnicas y estructuras familiares de los Shuar. Suca: Federacin de
Centros Shuar, 1973. 65 p.
8262. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Tsantsa: la celebracin de la cabeza reducida: tsantsa. Suca: Mundo
Shuar, 1980. 352 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 9)
8263. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Tsunki: el mundo del agua y de los poderes fecundantes. Suca:
Mundo Shuar, 1979. 191 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 2)
8264. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Uwi: la celebracin de la vida y de la fecundidad. Quito: Mundo
Shuar, 1983. 181 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 11)
Originally published as: La celebracin de Uwi. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1978. 159
p.
8265. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Uwishn: iniciacin, ritos y cantos de los chamanes. Suca: Mundo
Shuar, 1978. 296 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 3)
8266. Pellizzaro, Siro M. Wee: mitos de la sal y ritos para obtenerla. Suca: Mundo Shuar,
1979. 111 p. (Mitologa Shuar; t. 4)
8267. Pellizzaro, Siro M.; Jos Arnalot; and Silvio Broseghini. La muerte y los entierros.
Suca: Mundo Shuar, Centro de Documentacin, Investigacin y Publicaciones, 1978. 107 p.
8268. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. La nacin shuar.
Suca: Mundo Shuar, 1977-1978. 5 v.
8269. Pierre, Franois. Voyages dexploration dun missionaire dominicain chez lez tribus suavage
de lEquateur. Paris: Bureau de lAnnee dominicaine, 1889. x, 334 p.
A classic, late nineteenth-century account of the peoples now known as the Shuar and the
Achuar.
Also published in Spanish as: Viaje de exploracin al Oriente ecuatoriano, 1887-1888, 2 ed.
Quito: Abya-Yala, 1990. 262 p.
8270. Redmond, Elsa M. Tribal and Chiefly Warfare in South A merica. Ann Arbor: Museum
of Anthropology, University of Michigan, 1994. xii, 148 p.
8271. Rivet, Paul. Les indiens Jibaros, LA nthropologie, 18 (1907), 363-368, 538-618; 19
(1908), 69-87, 235-259.
8272. Rosero, Magdalena. La espiritualidad de los Shuar. Suca: Federacin Provincial de
Centros Shuaras, 1972. 57, [5] p.
8273. Rueda, Marco Vinicio. Un hombre mtico shuar: los mitos shuar, Revista de la
Universidad Catlica, 7:21 (mar. 1979), 43-81.
8274. Salazar, Ernesto. The Federacin Shuar and the Colonization Frontier, Cultural
Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 589-613.
An abridged and revised version of item 6555. Also published in Spanish in item 8127.
8275. Santana, Roberto. Le projet shuar et la stratgie de colonisation du sud-est
quatorien, Travaux et mmoires de lInstitut des hautes tudes de lA mrique latine, 32 (1978), 5566.
8276. Sarmiento, Alberto. La heroina de Motolo: vida y costumbres de los Jbaros. Quito:
[s.n.], 1961. 114 p.
8277. Setenta mitos shuar, edicin de Marco Vinicio Rueda; texto recogido
magnetofnicamente por Ricardo Tankamash; traduccin del shuar al castellano por Ricardo
Tankamash y Ampn Karkras. Quito: Mundo Shuar, 1983. 289 p.
In Shuar and Spanish.
8278. Simson, Alfred. Notes on the Jivaros and Canelos Indians, Journal of the
A nthropological Institute of Great Britain, 9 (1880), 385-393.
8279. Stirling, Matthew W. Historical and Ethnographical Material on the Jivaro Indians.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1938. 148 p.
8280. Taylor, Anne-Christine. Lart de la reduction: la guerre et les mecanismes de la
differenciation tribale dans la culture Jivaro, Journal de la Socit des amricanistes, 71 (1985),
159-184.
Utilizes historical and ethnographic sources to demonstrate that the Shuar and the Achuar
have traditionally practiced two different types of warfare: intratribal vendettas and intertribal
head-hunting.
8281. Taylor, Anne-Christine. Una categora irreductible en el conjunto de las naciones
indgenas: los Jvaro en las representaciones occidentales, Imgines e imagineros (item 1940), p.
75-107.
A fascinating study of the differing perceptions of the Jvaros or Shuar and Achuar through
time, as perceived by Catholic missionaries in the seventeenth centuries, by creoles in the
eighteenth, by scientific travelers in the nineteenth, by ethnographers and by themselves in the
twentieth.
8282. Taylor, Anne-Christine. La invencin del Jvaro: notas etnogrficas sobre una
fantasma occidental, Memorias del primer Simposio Europeo sobre A ntropologa del Ecuador (item
603), p. 277-289.
A preliminary version of item 8281.
8283. Tiwintza: la dignidad de un pueblo, 1 ed. Quito: Fundacin Jos Peralta, 1995. 246 p.
8284. Vacas Galindo, Enrique. N ankijukima: religin, usos y costumbres de los salvajes del
Oriente del Ecuador. Ambato: Impr. T. Merino, 1895. 349 p.
A knowledgeable but semifictionalized account based on many years of missionary experience
among the Shuar. Considered by some authorities (e.g., Angel F. Rojas) to be a quasi-novel.
8285. La Vida del pueblo shuar, Miguel Allioni [et al.]. Quito: Mundo Shuar, 1978. 235 p.
8286. Vigna, Juan. Bosquejo sobre los indios Shuaras o Jbaros, A mrica indgena, 5:1
(ene./mar. 1945), 35-49.
8287. Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang. Off With T heir Heads. New York: Macmillan, 1937.
320 p.
Popular account of Shuar and Achuar. Somewhat useful for coeval data.
8288. Waisbard, Simone. Chez les chasseurs de ttes dA mazonie. Paris: Socit continentale
deditions modernes illustres, 1969. 360 p.
8289. Wavirn, Robert, Marquis de. Los Jvaros: reducteurs de tetes recit desploration. Paris:
Payot, 1941. 212 p.
8290. Wierhake, Gunda. La cultura material shuar en la historia: estudio de las fuentes del siglo
XVI al XIX. Suca: Mundo Shuar; Quito: Abya-Yala, 1985. 166 p.
8291. Wierhake, Gunda. Der Schmuck der Jvaro in der Darstellung der schriftlichen
Quellen des 16. bis 19. Jahrhunderts, Beitrge zur Kulturgeschichte des westlichen Sdamerika,
Albert Meyers, Martin Volland (Hrsg.) (Opladen: Westdeutschler Verlag, 1990), p. 183-206.
SIONAS / SECOYAS
The Sionas and Secoyas are small, closely related ethnic groups. The Siona live along the
Shushufindi, Aguarico, and Cuyabeno rivers. The Secoya also along the Aguarico and
Cuyabeno. As of the early 1990s, there were some 200 Siona and 300 Secoya. Both groups were
in danger of extinction. Hopefully this has not happened. Culturally and linguistically the
Sionas and Secoyas were/are related to Western Tucanos. The principal students of the Siona
and Secoya Indians were Langdon (items 8293 and 8294) and Vickers (items 8296-8302).
8292. Cipolletti, Mara Susana. A ipe koka, la palabra de los antiguos: tradicin oral sionasecoya. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1988. 286 p.
8293. Langdon, Esther Jean. Mulheres na ideologia e na vida cotidiana dos Siona, Boletim
de cincias sociais, 45 (abr./jun. 1987), 20-31.
8294. Langdon, Esther Jean. The Siona Hallucinogenic Ritual: Its Meaning and Power,
Understanding Religion and Culture: A nthropological and T heological Perspectives, edited by John H.
Morgan (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1979), p. 58-86.
See also Langdons 1974 doctoral dissertation: The Siona Medical System: Beliefs and
Behavior (Tulane Univesity). And her more recent: Dau: Shamanic Power in Siona Religion
and Medicine, Portals of Power: Shamanism in South A merica, edited by E. Jean Mateson
Langdon and Gerhard Baer (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1992), p. 41-62.
8295. Moya, Ruth. Requiem por los espejos y los tigres: una aproximacin a la literatura y lengua
secoyas. Quito: Oficina Regional de Cultura para Amrica Latina y el Caribe: Ediciones AbyaYala, 1992. 378 p.
8296. Vickers, William T. Cultural Adaptation to Amazonian Habitats: The SionaSecoya of Eastern Ecuador. 1976. 368 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida.
A detailed study of Siona / Secoya adaptation to and exploitation of their environment.
Published in Spanish as: Los Sionas y Secoyas: su adaptacin al ambiente amaznico. Quito:
Ediciones Abya-Yala; Roma: MLAL, 1989. 374 p.
8297. Vickers, William T. Ideation as Adaptation: Traditional Belief and Modern
Intervention in Siona-Secoya Religion, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern
Ecuador (item 7939), p. 705-730.
Examines the impact of the acculturation and proselytization programs of the Summer
Institute of Linguistics, nominally on behalf of the Ministry of Public Education, and of the
Instituto Nacional de Colonizacin de la Regin Amaznica Ecuatoriana, on this ethnic group.
8298. Vickers, William T. El mundo espiritual de los Sionas, Periplo: revista del Instituto de
la Caza Fotogrfica y Ciencias de la N aturaleza, 4 (1975), 13-23.
8299. Vickers, William T. Native Amazonian Subsistence in Diverse Habitats: the SionaSecoya of Ecuador, Changing A gricultural Systems in Latin A merica, Emilio F. Morn, guest editor
(Williamsburg: Department of Anthropology, College of William and Mary, 1978), p. 6-36.
8303. Albuja Punina, Ignacio. Lo urbano y lo rural, Memoria del primer Congreso de
Sociologa Ecuatoriana (item 8313), t. 1, p. 176-227.
A relatively sophisticated analysis of the urban/rural structure of the country as of the midtwentieth century. The author takes into account occupation and ethnicity as well as the
urban/rural variable.
8304. Argello Lpez, Carlos. Ecuador 2000. Quito: Tall. Grf. Formugraf, 1990. 122 p.
8305. Astudillo A., Csar. Clases y castas en el Ecuador, Memoria del primer Congreso de
Sociologa Ecuatoriana (item 8313), t. 1, p. 255-296.
A quasi-useless essay on class and race structures. Based on pseudo-Marxism on the one
hand and crude qualitative analysis on the other.
8306. Aulestia, Alfonso. La poblacin rural y su nivel de vida, Memoria del primer
Congreso de Sociologa Ecuatoriana (item 8313), t. 1, p. 157-175.
A quantitative analysis of the rural population and its standard of living between and
inclusive of 1950-1955 by a competent statistician.
8307. Bautz, Wolfgang. Clases sociales en el Ecuador: un caso de la estructura social en el
capitalismo perifrico, Lateinamerika, 22:1 (1987), 100-116.
Examines the impact of agrarian reforms of 1964 and 1979 on the social structures of the
country.
8308. Bossano, Luis. El campesino ecuatoriano. Buenos Aires: Edicin de la Revista
Americana de Buenos Aires, 1937. 92 p.
8309. Brownrigg, Leslie Ann. A l futuro desde la experiencia: los pueblos indgenas y el manejo
del medio ambiente. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1986. 243 p.
8310. Buitrn, Anbal. Discriminacin y transculturacin, A mrica indgena, 18:1
(ene./mar. 1958), 7-15.
Maintains that indigenous peoples have been discriminated against for cultural, not for racial,
reasons and that discrimination was declining as of the 1950s.
8311. Las Clases sociales en el Ecuador: enfoque especial de la clase media, Plutarco
Vzquez [et al.], Memoria del primer Congreso de Sociologa Ecuatoriana (item 8313), t. 1, p. 357381.
A student exercise. As such important as an example of what was being taught in colleges
and universities, at least at the Universidad Central del Ecuador, as of the mid 1950s.
A set of essays on various aspects of ethnic and cultural pluralism. Prepared as background
papers for seminars on differences in psychological make-up of mestizos and indios.
8324. Espinosa Tamayo, Alfredo. Psicologa y sociologa del pueblo ecuatoriano, estudio
introductorio de Arturo Andrs Roig. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editoria
Nacional, 1979. 363 p. (Biblioteca bsica del pensamiento ecuatoriano; 2)
Originally published: Guayaquil: Impr. Municipal, 1918. 200 p. Also: 2 ed. Quito: Banco
Central del Ecuador: Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1985. Both BCE/CEN editions include an
introductory essay by Arturo Andrs Roig on Los comienzos del pensamiento social y los
orgenes de la sociologa en el Ecuador (p. 9-127). An early-twentieth-century attempt to
delineate and to explicate the characteristics and problems of the country from the vantage of
the then infant disciplines of psychology and sociology.
8325. Espinosa Zevallos, Javier. A culturacin de indgenas en la ciudad de Guayaquil: estudio de
grupo. Guayaquil: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, Ncleo del Guayas, 1965. 36 p.
Although not an in-depth study, nonetheless, important because it was one of the few works
onand apparently also the earliest methodologically sound study ofthe problems faced by
Indian migrants from the highlands in the port city. Focuses on a group from the Province of
Caar.
8326. Espinosa Zevallos, Javier. El status de los grupos indgenas en la actual estratificacin
social del Ecuador y la teora de condicionamiento tnico, A mrica indgena, 35:1
(ene./mar.1975), 121-136.
Postulates that social stratification and therefore status in Ecuador is determined by five
variables: ethnic, educational, patrimonial (i.e., family), political, and economic. As of the late
1990s, no one appears to have applied Espinosas promising paradigm to the social history of the
country.
8327. Fierro, Eugenia; and Mara Elena Ontaneda. Algunos aspectos del problema de la
vivienda en el Ecuador: complejidad del mutualismo, Quitumbe, 4:4 (1976), 85-102.
8328. Fierro Ruz, Wistting. Los ecuatorianos despreciados y humillados. Cuenca:
Publicaciones y Papeles, 1979. 138 p.
8329. Fieweger, Mary Ellen. Stolen Children and International Adoptions, Child Welfare,
70:2 (Mar./Apr. 1991), 285-291.
By the 1980s, if not earlier, Ecuador had become a source of children for childless parents in
the developed countries. As of 1987 and 1988, some of the children being supplied to European
and North American parents had been kidnaped.
8330. Forman, Sylvia Helen. Law and Conflict in Rural Highland Ecuador. 1972. iv,
287 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)University of California, Berkeley.
Should have been included under Etnografa: Sierra. An ethnography of Central
Chimborazo, especially of the Lake Colta area.
8331. Gangotena Granizo, Francisco Javier. Peasant Social Articulation and Surplus
Transference: An Ecuadorian Case. 1981. ix, 204 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)University of
Florida.
8332. Garcs, Victor Gabriel. Ensayos sociolgicos. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana,
1966. 158 p.
8333. Garcs, Victor Gabriel. Indigenismo. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1957.
286 p.
8334. Garca, Mauricio; and Amalia Mauro. El orden de adentro y el orden de afuera: unidades
domsticas urbanas, reproduccin y polticas sociales. Quito: CEPLAES, 1992. vii, 103 p.
8335. Garca Ortiz, Humberto. La clase media en el Ecuador, Materiales para el estudio de
la clase media en Colombia, Ecuador y la Repblica Dominicana, edicin y recopilacin de Theo R.
Grevenna (Washington, D.C.: Pan American Union, 1951), p. 15-30.
8336. Goncharova, Tatiana Viktorovna. Indeanizm-ideologiia i politika: Boliviia, Peru,
Ekvador, 50-60-e gody XX v. Moskva: Nauka, 1979. 199 p.
A Marxist-Leninist commentary on socioeconomic, and political conditions in the central
Andean republics during the 1950s and 1960s.
8337. Gonzlez S., Vctor A. Las tierras comunales en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1982. 109 p.
8338. Green, Lawrence S. Nutrition and Behavior in Highland Ecuador. 1976. lxii, 460
leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)University of Pennsylvania.
8339. Guzmn Carrasco, Marco Antonio. Bicentralismo y pobreza en el Ecuador. Quito:
Corporacin Editora Nacional, 1994. 328 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; vol. 43)
8340. Haro, Juan B. Las desviaciones de la conducta en la infancia: investigaciones para la
prctica de la reeducacin y tratamiento de los menores. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1937. 61
p.
A study of adolescent delinquency in the capital during the 1930s. Quantitative as well as
qualitative.
8341. Henrquez, Guillermo; and Enrique Santos. Metodologa para el tratamiento de la
informacin de fuentes estadsticas en el estudio de las clases sociales en el Ecuador, Revista del
IDIS, 26 (dic. 1990), 9-36.
8342. Hernndez Casas de Benenati, Elena. Los factores socio-culturales del desarrollo en
el Ecuador, Latino A mrica: anuario de estudios latinoamericanos, 14 (1981), 71-108.
Delineates social and economic obstacles to development.
8343. Herrera Gil, Miguel. El desarrollo socio-econmico en el Ecuador: realidad o
ficcin, Desarrollo y cambio socio-econmico en el Ecuador (Quito: Centro Andino de Estudios e
Investigaciones, 1979), p. 71-118.
8344. Los Hijos de la deuda: un anlisis de la situacin de la infancia en el Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito:
Desarrollo y Autogestin: Grupo de Trabajo sobre Deuda Externa y Desarrollo, 1990. 113 p.
8345. Hurel Cepeda, Jorge. Estudio biolgico sobre el campesino ecuatoriano. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1958. 101 p.
8346. Hurtado, Osvaldo; and Hernn Salgado. Dos mundos superpuestos: ensayo de
diagnstico de la realidad ecuatoriana, 3 ed. actualizada. Quito: INEDES, 1980. 263 p.
A seminal work that has become a classic analysis of the social reality of late twentiethcentury Ecuador. The first edition appeared in 1969 in 258 p.
8347. Jaramillo Tern, Antonio. Memoria del infiernillo: crnica de la delincuencia juvenil en
Quito. Quito: Cedigraf, 1986. 245 p.
8348. Kessler, E.; and J. Collyer. Planning for Housing: Working Boys Center, Quito,
Ecuador, Ekistics, 39 (June 1975), 398-404.
8349. Klak, Thomas. Contextualizing State Housing Programs in Latin America: Evidence
from Leading Housing Agencies in Brazil, Ecuador, and Jamaica, Environment and Planning A ,
25:5 (May 1993), 653-676.
8350. Larrea Maldonado, Carlos. La estructura social ecuatoriana entre 1960 y 1979,
N ueva historia del Ecuador (item 615), vol. 11, p. 97-147.
A significant attempt to delineate continuity and change in the socioeconomic structures of
the city and the countryside, of the highlands and of the coast during the 1970s. Multi-variant
and methodologically sophisticated in analysis. Relatively free from ideological bias and
political cant. An impressive and important piece.
8351. Larrea Maldonado, Carlos. Pobreza, necesidades bsicas, y desempleo: rea urbana del
Ecuador. Quito: INEM/ILDIS, 1990. 1 v.
An analysis of satisfaction of basic needs. Based on a 1988 survey of urban households.
8352. Linke, Lilo; and Miguel Albornoz. El Comercio de Quito y la Misin A ndina del
Ecuador: reportajes y comentarios de peridico y de sus colaboradores. Quito: Edit. La Unin,
1961. 70 p.
8353. Lowder, Stella. The Limitations of Planned Land Development for Low-Income
Housing in Third World Cities, Urban Studies, 30 (Aug. 1993), 1241-1255.
8354. Luzuriaga C., Carlos; and Mariana Mora. A nlisis sobre la pobreza. Quito: Consejo
Nacional de Desarrollo: Coordinacin General del Frente Social, 1993. 104 p
Contents: Carlos Luzuriaga C., Naturaleza y caractersticas (p. 1-60); Mariana Mora,
Cuantificacin e identificacin de areas crticas (p. 61-104).
8355. Mancero Samn, Alfredo. Seguridad social y vejez: la privatizacin de los fondos de
pensiones. Quito: Corporacin de Estudios para el Desarrollo, 1994. 282 p.
Both an analysis of the system as of the early 1990s and an argument against the privatization
of the Seguro Social Ecuatoriano.
8356. McKee, Lauris A. Ideas and Actualities: The Socialization of Gender-Appropriate
Behavior in an Ecuadorian Village. 1980. viii, 277 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)Cornell
University.
Examines the differences in male and female roles in the mestizo and Indian community of
Las Flores in the Province of Tungurahua.
8357. Memorias del II Congreso de Facultades y Escuelas de Sociologa del Ecuador: aspectos
sociopolticos del desarrollo capitalista en el Ecuador. Cuenca: Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas de
la Universidad de Cuenca, 1981-1982. 2 v. (596 p.).
8358. Mera Oviedo, Mentor. El proceso sociolgico del Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana Benjamn Carrin, 1987. 354 p.
8359. Monsalve Pozo, Luis. El indio, cuestiones de su vida y de su pasin. Cuenca: Edit.
Austral, 1943. 545 p.
8360. Montenegro Aguilar, Carlos. La organizacin de la familia en el Ecuador, A nales de
la Universidad Central, 33:251 (ene./mar. 1925), 6-116.
8361. Mora Carrin, Jorge. Datos sobre las relaciones sociales de produccin en el agro
ecuatoriano: y particularmente el caso del arrimado en la Provincia de Loja, Memoria del primer
Congreso de Sociologa Ecuatoriana (item 8313), t. 1, p. 124-140.
An essay on the status of huasipungueros in the Province of Loja and the treatment accorded
them by their amos. Includes concrete data from judicial cases.
8362. Movimientos sociales en el Ecuador, compilador Luis Verdesoto; Manuel Chiriboga [et
al.]. Quito: CLASCO: ILDIS, 1986. 279 p.
Partial contents: Luis Verdesoto, Los movimientos sociales, la crisis y la democracia en el
Ecuador (p. 15-61); Manuel Chiriboga, Crisis econmica y movimiento campesino e indgena
(p. 65-91); J. Len and J.P. Prez, Crisis y movimiento sindical en Ecuador: las huelgas
nacionales del FUT 1981-1983 (p. 95-150); Simn Pachano, Movimientos sociales regionales
en el Ecuador (p. 153-181); Mercedes Prieto, Notas sobre el movimiento de mujeres en el
Ecuador (p. 185-218).
8363. Moya, Ruth. Ecuador: cultura, conflicto y utopia. Quito: CEDIME, 1987. 380 p.
8364. Nett, Emily M. The Servant Class in a Developing Country: Ecuador, Journal of
Inter-A merican Studies, 8:3 (July 1966), 437-452.
Based on two years of living experience (1963-1965) in Quito.
8365. Ojeda Segovia, Lautaro. Cuellos de botella de las polticas sociales ecuatorianas: del gasto
social a la inversin social. Quito: FLACSO, Sede Ecuador, 1989. 54 p.
8366. Ojeda Segovia, Lautaro. Polticas de bienestar social y participacin popular en el Ecuador.
Quito: ILDIS, 1988. 114 p.
8367. Pachano, Simn. Los diputados: una elite poltica, 1 ed. Quito: Corporacin Editora
Nacional, 1991. 212 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 31)
A prosopographic study and analysis of congressmen and of congressional candidates and
aspirants of the 1980s.
8368. Paredes, Angel Modesto. Biologa de las clases sociales. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad,
1954. 181 p.
8369. Peek, Peter. Urban Poverty, Migration, and Land Reform in Ecuador. The Hague:
Institute of Social Studies, 1980. 28 p.
8370. Peaherrera de Costales, Piedad; and Alfredo Costales Samaniego. El chagra: estudio
socio-econmico del mestizaje ecuatoriano. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Antropologa y
Geografa, 1961. 283 p. (Llacta; ao 5, vol. 10, no. 11)
8371. Prez Anda, Augusto. El divorcio en el Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura
Ecuatoriana, 1954. 91 p.
8372. Plan general de investigacin: el sistema de drogas ecuatoriano y el impacto de la cocana en
el area andina. Quito: Fundacin Nuestros Jvenes, 1988. 2 v.
8373. Polticas de desarrollo social y vivienda, compilador, Santiago Escobar; Alfredo Mancero
[et al.]. Santiago de Chile: ILPES-CEPAL; Quito: ILDIS, 1990. 222 p.
8374. Polticas de empleo, compilador, Santiago Escobar; Gustavo Mrquez [et al.]. Quito:
ILDIS; Santiago de Chile: ILPES-CEPAL, 1990. 237 p.
8375. Polticas de salud, compilador, Santiago Escobar; Eduardo Estrella [et al.]. Santiago de
Chile: ILPES-CEPAL; Quito: ILDIS, 1990. 174 p.
Items 8373-8375, conceived and published as a set, constitute an in-depth examination of
social conditions and corresponding government policies in the 1980s, especially insofar as
social development, subsidized housing, the working class, and public health are concerned.
8376. Polticas estatales y organizacin popular. Quito: Instituto de Estudios Ecuatorianos:
Fondo Ecuatoriano Populorum Progressio, 1985. 489, 6 p.
8377. Pozo Vela, Miguel Angel del. El problema social en el Ecuador. Quito: Edit.
Universitaria, [1958?]. 44 p.
8378. Problemas socioeconmicas del Ecuador, [equipo de trabajo, Washington Macas et al.].
Otavalo: Edit. Gallocapitn, 1983. 332 p.
8379. Rhon Dvila, Francisco. Lucha tnica o lucha de clases: Ecuador, Campesinado e
indigenismo en A mrica Latina (Lima: Centro Latinoamericano de Trabajo Social: Centro
Peruano de Estudios Sociales, 1978), p. 71-85.
8380. Rodrguez Abad, Luis Alberto. Social Structure, Opportunity and Institutional
Change: the Universities of Ecuador. ii, 384 leaves. 1969. Thesis (Ph.D.)Syracuse
University.
3881. Roloff, Gerardo. Los nios del Ecuador: prcticas de crianza en zonas rurales y urbano
marginales. Bogot: Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano, 1995. 265 p. (Coleccin Prcticas de
crianza; 3).
8382. Roos, Wilma. Ecuador in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture. London:
Latin American Bureau, 1997. 80 p.
An introduction to the peoples and politics of the country as of the late-twentieth century
8383. Rubio Orbe, Gonzalo. La poblacin rural ecuatoriana. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales,
1966. 308 p.
8384. Santos Alvite, Eduardo. Poverty in Ecuador, CEPA L Review/Revista de la CEPA L,
38 (Aug. 1989), 121-132.
8385. Seminario Regional de Asuntos Sociales (1 : 1950: Quito, Ecuador). Primer Seminario
Regional de A suntos Sociales, mayo 27 a 10 de junio de 1950. Quito: [s.n.], 1951. 237 p.
8386. Sigsfield, Donata von. Educacin no formal y poblacin marginada. Quito: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales; Pontificia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador,
[1990?]. 424 p.
8387. Silva, Erika. Los mitos de la ecuatorianidad: ensayo sobre la identidad nacional, 1 ed.
Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992. 85 p.
8388. Stutzman, Ronald L. El mestizaje: An All-Inclusive Ideology of Exclusion, Cultural
Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 45-94.
A perspicacious essay on the supposed or potential loss of ethnic identity when national
identity is embraced or superimposed. Nonetheless, as events and developments of the 1980s
and 1990s have amply demonstrated, being mestizo had not replaced being white or being
Indian in Ecuador and indios were increasingly take pride in being indgenas.
8389. Surez, Pablo Arturo. Contribucin al estudio de las realidades entre las clases obreras y
campesinas. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1935. 93 p.
A well documented study of the miserable conditions to which the urban working class and
the rural peasantry of the highlands were subject as of 1934, the year in which the field work on
which this study is based was conducted.
8390. Torres Caicedo, Reinaldo. Los diferentes estratos socioeconmicos del Ecuador: ensayos
de cuantificacin. Quito: Junta de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1960. 33 p.
8391. Tousignant, Michel; and M. Maldonado. Sadness, Depression, and Social
Reciprocity in Highland Ecuador, Social Science & Medicine, 28:9 (Sept. 1989), 899-904.
8392. Tousignant, Michel; and Trnsito Chela. Suicide in Third World Countries: the
Case of Rural Ecuador, Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 23:3 (Apr. 1991), 191-198.
8393. Vaquero Dvila, Jess. A spectos sociolgicos de la nacionalidad ecuatoriana. Quito:
[Impr. de] M. Piedra M, 1930. xv, 265 p.
8394. Vela Monsalve, Carlos. La cuestin social y nuestras responsabilidades ante ella: tres
conferencias a los antiguos alumnos del Colegio San Gabriel, mayo de 1959. Quito: Impr. de
Suministros, 1959. 68 p.
8395. Violencia en la regin andina: el caso del Ecuador, Julio Echeverra, Amparo MenndezCarrin, editores, 1a ed. Quito: FLACSO, 1994. xv, 273 p.
A compendium of studies of violence in relationship to politics and government, ethnic
identity and culture, daily life, means of communication, and traffic in narcotics.
8396. Walter, Lynn E. Ethnicity, Economy and the State in Ecuador. Aslburg: Aslburg
University Press, 1981. 44 p.
8397. Weis, Wendy A. The Social Organization of Property and Work: a Study of
Migrants from the Rural Ecuadorian Sierra, A merican Ethnologist, 12:3 (Aug. 1985), 468-488.
8398. Ypez del Pozo, Juan. Clases y castas en el Ecuador, Memoria del primer Congreso de
Sociologa Ecuatoriana (item 8313), t. 1, p. 297-318.
One of the least useful essays in this set. A single quotation suffices to demonstrate the
meaningless which ideological blinders sometimes produce: Las castas en el Ecuador, durante la
Colonia, lo fueron todo y todo lo hicieron, para mal y desgracia del pas y sus hombres (p. 315).
Statistics
As of 1999, five national censuses of population (1950, 1962, 1974, 1982, and 1990), and
four national censuses of housing (1962, 1974, 1982, and 1990) had been taken, the latter
conjointly with the II-V national censuses of population. For critical evaluations of the first four
censuses of the population see: Pedro Merlo Jaramillo, Evaluacin y ajuste de los censos de
poblacin de 1950 y 1962 (Santiago de Chile: Centro Latinoamericano de Demografa, 1962);
and Corina del Pilar Ortiz Meja, Ecuador, preferencia de dgitos en la declaracin de la edad en los
censos 1974 y 1982: trabajo final de investigacin (Santiago de Chile: Centro Latinoamericano de
Demografa, 1985).
There have also been and in some cases continue to be annual compendia or periodic surveys
of employment, under employment, and unemployment (Encuesta de empleo, subempleo y
desempleo), of health care providers and facilities (A nuario de recursos de salud), of hospital
discharges (A nuario de egresos hospitalarios), of internal trade (Encuesta anual de comercio interno),
of migration (A nuario de migracin internacional), of restaurants and hotels (Encuesta de
restaurantes, hoteles, y servicios), of transportation (A nuario de estadsticas de transporte), of urban
housing (Encuesta de hogares urbanos), all published by the Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y
Censos.
8399. Almeida Guzmn, Patricio; and Rebeca Almeida. Estadsticas econmicas histricas,
1948-1983. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1988. xxvi,
547 p.
8409. Boletn estadstico. Ao 1, no. 1 (dic. 1954/ene. 1955)-[ao 3, no. 4 (julio 1958)?].
Quito: Direccin General de Estadstica y Censos, 1955-[1958?].
8410. Boletn general de estadstica. Ao 1, no. 1 (mayo 1931)-[ao 4, no. 8 (1934)?]. Quito:
Direccin General de Estadstica, Registro Civil y Censos, 1931-[1934?].
8411. Boletn municipal de estadstica (Guayaquil). Ao 1, no. 1 (jun. 1933)-ao 4, nos. 4/5
(jun. 1940). Guayaquil: Registro Cantonal de Poblacin y Estadstica, 1933-1940. 5 nos. in 4.
An important but little know source of statistical data for the port city for the 1930s. Does
not appear to have circulated widely.
8412. Censos econmicos, 1980, Repblica del Ecuador, Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y
Censos, INEC. Quito: INEC, 1983. 8 v.
8413. Comercio exterior de la Repblica del Ecuador en la dcada 1916 a 1925: adaptado a la
nomenclatura de Bruselas, Ministerio de Previsin Social y Trabajo, Departamento Central de
Estadstica. Quito: Tall. Tip. Nacionales, 1927. 167 p.
Consists entirely of tables and graphs. Includes export statistics from 1911-1915.
8414. Cuentas nacionales del Ecuador. No. 1 (mar. 1981)-. Quito: Banco Central del
Ecuador, Divisin Tcnica, 1981-.
Originally entitled: Cuentas nacionales. Title changed with no. 5. No. 1 covers the years
1972-1980; no. 2, the years 1965-1971; etc. No. 4 (1983) is devoted to Metodologa de cuentas
nacionales del Ecuador; no. 10 (1987) to Metodologa de bienes y servicios.
8415. Darlic Mardesic, Vjekoslav. Estadsticas de la mujer, Ecuador 1992, 1 ed. Quito:
ILDIS; UNIFEM, 1992. 343 p. Chiefly tables.
Notwithstanding the title, a compendium of demographic, economic, and education statistics
for males as well as for females. Covers the years 1970-1990. A basic, well done work.
8416. Darlic Mardesic, Vjekoslav. Estadsticas electorales del Ecuador, 1978-1987. Quito:
ILDIS, 1987. 271 p. Chiefly tables.
8417. Diagnstico de la educacin primaria de la Provincia del Guayas, Ministerio de Educacin
y Cultura, Direccin Provincial de Educacin y Cultura del Guayas. Guayaquil: Banco Central
del Ecuador, Subgerencia del Centro de Investigacin y Cultura, 1988. 222 p. Chiefly tables.
8418. Directorio de establecimientos econmicos 1980: resultados definitivos. Quito: Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1981-1982. 2 v.
8419. Ecuador, datos e indicadores bsicos, 1991. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo,
1991. 59 p.
In Spanish and English. Useful for basic demographic, economic, and social indicators.
8420. Ecuador en cifras, 1938 a 1942. Quito: Impr. del Ministerio de Hacienda, 1944. 515
p.
Compiled by the Direccin General de Estadstica y Censos.
8421. Ecuador, encuesta demogrfica y de salud familiar, 1987. Quito: Centro de Estudios de
Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable: Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nutricionales y
Medico Sociales; Columbia, Md.: Institute for Resource Development/Westinghouse, 1988. ix,
129, [36] p.
8422. Ecuador, Summary of Biostatistics: Maps and Charts, Population, N atality and Mortality
Statistics, prepared by U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, in cooperation with
Office of the Coordinator, Inter-American Affairs. Washington, D.C.: Bureau of the Census,
1944. 61 p.
8423. Encuesta anual de estadsticas vitales: matrimonios y divorcios. 1976-1984. Quito:
Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1977-1985. 9 v.
8424. Encuesta anual de manufactura y minera. Vol. 1 (1976)-. Quito: Instituto Nacional de
Estadstica y Censos, 1976-.
Apparently now titled: Encuesta de manufactura y minera. Latest known issue for 1996.
8425. Encuesta de condiciones de vida. Tomo 1 (1995)-tomo 3 (1995). Quito: Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1996.
Intended to have been an ongoing survey, this series was almost still born.
8426. Encuesta de edificaciones (permisos de construccin), ao 1990. Quito: Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1992. 401, v p.
Subsequently titled: Encuesta anual de edificaciones.
8427. Encuesta de fecundidad, levantada en las principales ciudades y en algunas parroquias rurales
del pas. Quito: Divisin de Estadstica y Censos, 1967. vii, 255, 6 p.
8428. Encuesta de hogares del area urbana, 1.968, Secretara General de Planeacin de la
Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin, Departamento Tcnico, Divisin de Estadstica
y Censos, [1968?]. 2, 41 p.
8429. Encuesta de hogares: modulo de presupuestos familiares, area urbana, 1991. Quito:
Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1991. 3 v.
8430. Encuesta de migracin urbana de la sierra. Quito: Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y
Censos, 1981. xxiv, 163, xviii p.
Prepared in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (Oficina Internacional
del Trabajo).
8431. Encuesta de poblacin y ocupacin, area urbana-Quito-Guayaquil. Quito: Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1976. 5, 122 p.
8432. Encuesta de salud y planificacin familiar en barrios urbanos marginales de Quito. Quito:
Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable, 1993. 101 p.
8433. Encuesta de superficie y produccin por muestreo de reas, uso de la tierra, principales
productos y existencia de ganado: resultados 1991. Quito: Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y
Censos, 1992. iii, 177 p.
A survey of agricultural and livestock production and the marketing thereof by region and
product.
8434. Encuesta demogrfica y de salud materna e infantil- EN DEMA IN -89: informe preliminar.
Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable; Ministerio de Salud Pblica;
Atlanta, Ga.: Centers for Disease Control, 1990. 43 p.
Provides health and welfare data for women and children from 1989.
See also: EN DEMA IN -89: Ecuador, Encuesta demogrfica y de salud materna e infantil: Informe
de la Provincia del Guayas y de la Ciudad de Guayaquil. Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y
Paternidad Responsable; Atlanta, Ga.: Centers for Disease Control, 1996. 120 p.
8435. Encuesta nacional de fecundidad Ecuador-1.979, Repblica del Ecuador, INEC, Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos [y] Encuesta Mundial de Fecundidad . Quito: INEC, 1984. 2
v.
8436. Encuesta socio-demogrfica de barrios marginales de Quito, 1990. Quito: Centro de
Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable (CEPAR), 1990. 93, 23 p.
A survey of social and economic characteristics of women of child-bearing age in suburbs of
the capital and of their use of or predisposition to use family planning services.
8437. Encuestas de fecundidad de las ciudades de Quito y Guayaquil. Quito: Junta Nacional de
Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1966. 191, [25] p.
8438. Estadstica ecuatoriana: organo de difusin cientfico-tcnico del Instituto N acional de
Estadsticas y Censos (IN CE). Ao 1, no. 1 (1990)-. Quito: Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y
Censos, 1990-.
8439. Estadstica minera 1932-1966 (enero-junio), Direccin General de Minas e
Hidrocarburos [y la] Asesora Tcnica de Petrleos del Ministerio de Industrias y Comercio.
Quito: Ministerio de Industrias y Comercio, 1966. 60 p.
8440. Estadstica petrolera del Ecuador, 1925-1965. Quito: Direccin General de Minas e
Hidrocarburos, 1965. 178 leaves.
8441. Estadstica y censos. No. 1 (mar.1939)-no. 7 (nov. 1939). Quito: Direccin Nacional
de Estadstica, 1939. 7 nos.
8442. Estadstica de la universidad ecuatoriana. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Educacin
Superior, 1978. 109 p.
8443. Estadsticas de la universidad ecuatoriana. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Educacin
Superior, 1979. 119 p.
It is not known if items 8442 and 8443 have been continued and therefore constitute an
annual.
8444. Estadsticas de las exportaciones del Ecuador, 1940-1942: (con series histricas anteriores),
sistematizadas por Hanns Heiman G. Quito: Direccin General de Estadstica y Censos, 19431945. 2 v. in 1.
Includes some time series from as early as 1906, but the majority are from 1911 through 1942.
8445. Estadsticas del Ecuador, [elaboracin, Susana Valdivieso]. Quito: Instituto
Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales, 1987-.
Each issue includes times series from the preceding fifteen years.
8446. Estadsticas del trabajo: indices de empleo y remuneraciones. Vol. 1 (1970)-. Quito:
Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1970-.
Apparently now entitled: Indice de empleo y remuneraciones. Latest known issue is for the
fourth quarter of 1997.
8447. Estadsticas financieras del sector pblico ecuatoriano, aos1970-1977. Quito: Junta
Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1979. 109 p.
8448. Estadsticas financieras del sector pblico ecuatoriano, aos 1975-1981. Quito: Consejo
Nacional de Desarrollo, Secretara General de Planificacin, Direccin Coordinadora y Poltica
Fiscal, Divisin Programacin y Poltica Fiscal, Seccin Programacin del Sector Pblico, 1983.
316 p.
8449. Estadsticas industriales, 1980-1986, Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo. Quito: Secretara
General de Planificacin, Seccin Publicaciones, 1988. iv, [77] leaves. Chiefly tables.
8450. Estadsticas industriales de la Provincia de El Oro, aos 1975-1976. Machala:
Universidad Tcnica de Machala, Facultad de Sociologa, 1980. 45 p.
8451. Evolucin histrica del comercio exterior ecuatoriano: 1950-1975, Junta Nacional de
Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y
Coordinacin Econmica, 1978. 203 p.
8452. Flores Y., Marco. Gastos anuales por tamao de unidad de produccin agropecuaria.
Quito: Programa Nacional de Regionalizacin Agraria, 1981. [75] leaves.
8453. Guayaquil econmico. 1961-. Guayaquil: Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas,
Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil, 1962-.
Continues: Guayaquil en cifras (item 8454).
8454. Guayaquil en cifras. [1960] Guayaquil: Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas,
Facultad de Ciencias Econmicas, Universidad de Guayaquil, 1961. 1 v.
Continued by: Guayaquil econmico (item 8453).
8455. Hidrocarburos estadsticas, 1970-1981. Quito: Consejo Nacional de Desarrollo, 1982.
116 p.
8456. I censo agropecuario nacional, 1954. Quito: Tall. Grf. de la Direccin General de
Estadstica y Censos, 1956. viii, 289 p.
Compiled by the Comisin Coordinadora y Supervisora del Censo Agropecuario Nacional.
8457. II censo agropecuario 1974: resultados definitivos, resumen nacional. Quito: Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1979. xlvi, 217 p.
8458. III censo de poblacin 1974: resultados definitivos. Quito: Instituto Nacional de
Estadstica y Censos, 1976-1977. 22 v. in 37.
The definitive results of the third national census of population, for a summary of which see
the following item.
8459. III censo de poblacin 1974: resultados definitivos: resumen nacional. Quito: Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1977. xxii, 159, xi p.
8460. III censo de vivienda, 1982: resultados definitivos. Quito: Instituto Nacional de
Estadstica y Censos, 1984-1985. 21 v.
The definitive results of the third national census of housing, taken simultaneously with the
fourth of population (see items 8475-8477).
8461. Indicadores bsicos regionales, Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin
Econmica. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1979. iv, 197
p.
8462. Indicadores para la seleccin de areas deprimidas de costa y sierra, Comit Ecuatoriano de
la Campaa Mundial contra el Hambre. Quito: Banco Central del Ecuador, 1979. 181 p.
Chiefly tables and maps.
8463. Indicadores y estadsticas bsicas de la economa ecuatoriana, recopilacin [por] Marco
Jaramillo P., Isaas Campaa, Angelica Acurio Tobar. Quito: Instituto de Investigaciones
Econmicas, Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1987. 249 p.
8464. Indice de precios al consumidor. Sept. 1968-. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil,
Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas y Polticas, 1968-. Monthly.
8465. Indice de precios al consumidor: area urbana. No. 001 (abr. 1982)-. Quito: Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1982-. Monthly.
Title varies: Indice de precios al consumidor: area urbana nacional; Indice de precios al consumidor:
Quito, Guayaquil, Cuenca; Indice de precios al consumidor urbano. Apparently now being
published as a quarterly. Covers the primary cities of Quito and Guayaquil, and the secondary
city of Cuenca.
8466. Indice estadstico 1980. Quito: Datos Ecuador, 1980. 138 p.
8467. Indice estadstico Ecuador 1984. Quito: Editores Markop, 1985. 147 p.
8468. Indice estadstico ecuatoriano 1983. Quito: Editores Markop, 1984. 164 p.
8469. Indice estadstico ecuatoriano 1985. Quito: Servicios de Marqueting [sic] y Opinin
Pblica, 1986. 161 p.
Items 8467-8469 may constitute an annual.
8470. Indices del costo de la vivienda popular en Quito, de 1938 a 1945, Trimestre
estadstico, 1:3/4 (jul./dic. 1945), 24-44.
8471. Informacin censal: resumen de los resultados definitivos del Censo N acional de Poblacin de
1950 sobre sexo, edad, estado civil, alfabetismo y poblacin econmicamente activa e inactiva. Quito:
Direccin General de Estadstica y Censos, 1952. 61 p.
8472. Informes estadsticas. No. 1 (feb. 1957)-. Quito: Direccin General de Estadstica y
Censos, 1957-.
8473. Instruccin de la mujer y fecundidad. Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y
Paternidad Responsable, 1991. 39 p.
8474. Investigacin de datos estadsticos sobre la mujer ecuatoriana: demografa, salud, educacin y
empleo. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Investigacin y Capacitacin de la Mujer, 1992. viii,
173 p.
Demographic, health, education and employment statistics for women from the 1980s.
8475. IV censo de poblacin, 1982: resultados definitivos. Quito: Instituto Nacional de
Estadstica y Censos, 1984-1985. 21 v. in 48.
The definitive results of the fourth national census of population by province. For summaries
see item 8476.
8476. IV censo nacional de poblacin y III de vivienda, 1982: resumen nacional: breve anlisis de
los resultados definitivos. Quito: Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1985. 92 p.
8477. IV censo nacional de poblacin y III de vivienda, 1982: zonas no delimitadas: resultados
definitivos. Quito: Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censos, 1985. xxiii, vi, 98 p.
8478. Izquieta, Carlos Manrique. Estudio estadstico de algunos aspectos de la situacin
general del Ecuador, Revista de la Universidad de Guayaquil, 8 (1937), 192-227.
Provides some geographic and demographic statistics for the 1920s and 1930s.
8479. Labastida R., Edgar de; and Rob Vos. El salario y los niveles de vida urbanos en el
Ecuador: un estudio de los barrios populares de Quito y Guayaquil. The Hague: ISS, 1987. 196 p.
Chiefly tables.
8480. Mano de obra segn calendario agrcola. Quito: M.A.G., Programa Nacional de
Regionalizacin Agraria: O.R.S.T.O.M.: Instituto Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sociales,
1982. 146 p.
8481. Mena, Norma; Fanny Ortiz; and Anbal Torres. Investigacin de datos estadsticos sobre
la mujer ecuatoriana: demografa, salud, educacin y empleo. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de
Investigaciones y Capacitacin de la Mujer, 1988. 123 p.
A relatively useless compendium of absolute statistics (i.e., aggregated but not analyzed data).
See instead items 8415 and 8474.
8482. Molina Tapia, Telmo. A lgunos errores y falsedades encontrados en las cuentas nacionales
del Ecuador disponibles en la actualidad oficialmente publicadas desde marzo de 1981. Quito:
Universidad Central del Ecuador, Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas, 1985. 55 p.
8495. Quito y sus estadsticas. 1965-. Quito: Universidad Central del Ecuador, Facultad de
Ciencias Econmicas, Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas y Financieras, 1965-.
8496. Resumen de las adjudicaciones de tierras legalizadas en reforma agraria y colonizacin en
zonas arroceras, decreto 1001: 1971 1985. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano de Reforma Agraria y
Colonizacin, Direccin de Programacin, Departamento de Estadstica, 1986. 24 leaves.
Chiefly tables.
Covers the Provinces of Guayas and Los Ros.
8497. Resumen estadstico de artesanas y pequeas industrias, 1965-1968. Quito: Direccin
General de Fomento Artesanal y Pequeas Industrias, 1969. 161 p.
8498. Samaniego, Juan Jos. Bioestadstica en el cosmos ecuatoriano. Quito: Tall. Grf. de
Educacin, 1943. 23 p.
8499. Schodt, David W.; Patricio Len Camacho; and Salvador Marconi Romano. A New
Source of Economic Statistics for Ecuador: the Ecuadorian National Accounts, LA SA Forum,
16:3 (Fall 1985), 1-10.
An introduction to and analysis of item 8414. See also item 8505.
8500. Segundo censo de poblacin y primer censo de vivienda, 25 de noviembre de 1962. Quito:
Junta Nacional de Planificacin Econmica, Divisin de Estadstica y Censos, 1964. 16 v. in 18.
Definitive results of the second national census of population and the first of housing by
provinces.
8501. Serie estadstica, Repblica del Ecuador, Instituto Nacional de Estadstica. Quito:
Instituto Nacional de Estadstica, [1974?]-.
Annual issues cover or used to cover overlapping five year periods. Issued by Instituto
Nacional de Estadstica for 1967/72-1968/73, and the Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censos
for 1970/75-. May be defunct. Last known issue covered 1991-1993.
8502. Sntesis estadsticas del Ecuador. No. 1 (1959)-No. 4 (1962). Quito: Divisin de
Estadstica y Censos, 1959-1963. 4 v.
Continued by: A nuario de estadstica (item 8402).
8503. Superintendencia de Bancos (Ecuador). Memoria. Vol. 1 (1978)-. Quito:
Superintendencia de Bancos, 1978-.
A comprehensive annual report on banks and banking.
8504. Tobar Donoso, Julio. Estadstica ecuatoriana Revista de la A sociacin Catlica de la
Juventud Ecuatoriana, 3:23 (jul. 1920), 257-267.
8505. Torres Caldern, Luis. Cuentas nacionales: estructura productiva del Ecuador, 19701976, direccin de Leonardo Vicua Izquierdo. Guayaquil: Universidad de Guayaquil, Facultad
de Ciencias Econmicas, 1979. 119 p.
8506. Trimestre estadstico del Ecuador. Ao 1, no. 1 (mayo 1945)-ao 4, no. 8 (1948).
Quito: Direccin General de Estadstica y Censos, 1945-1948. 6 nos (1,2, 3/4, 5, 6/7, 8).
8514. Acero Coral, Gloria; and Mara A. Pianalto de Dalle Rive. Medicina indgena, Cacha,
Chimborazo = Cachamanta runapaj jambi. Quito: Abya-Yala, 1985. 172 p.
In Spanish and Quichua.
8515. A limentacin y nutricin, recopilacin de Galo A. Chiriboga Zambrano. Santiago:
ILPES-CEPAL; Quito: ILDIS, [1989?]. 251 p.
8516. Amunrriz, Manuel. Estudios sobre patologas tropicales en la A mazonia ecuatoriana.
Pompeya: Ediciones CICAME, 1991. 120 p.
Surveys medical services provided by the state to the nation as of the mid-twentieth century.
8532. Cabanilla Cevallos, Francisco. Contribucin al estudio de la mortalidad infantil en
Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Impr. El Diario, 1929. 82 p.
8533. Cabanilla Cevallos, Francisco. Los grandes problemas sanitarios del litoral ecuatoriano.
Guayaquil: [s.n.], 1935. 29 p.
8534. Cifuentes, Mauro; and Jos H. So Sa. El clera: una respuesta desde la comunidad
andina, 1 ed. Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular, Comit de Emergencia en Lucha
contra el Clera, 1992. 206 p.
8535. Ciudad y muerte infantil, Jaime Breilh [et al.]. Quito: CEAS, 1983. v, 183 p.
An analysis of infant and child mortality in Quito.
8536. Coello, C.V. Present Sanitary Conditions at Guayaquil with Special Reference to
Yellow Fever, A merican Journal of Public Health, 12:x (Mar. 1922), 188-192.
8537. Congreso Nacional de Asociaciones de Mdicos y Profesionales del I.E.S.S. (1 : 1984:
Guayaquil, Ecuador). Memoria: 1er Congreso N acional de A sociaciones de Mdicos y Profesionales
del I.E.S.S.: Guayaquil, 24-27 de julio 1984, organizado por la Federacin Nacional de Mdicos
del I.E.S.S. Guayaquil: IESS, 1985. 406 p.
8538. Dalmau Gavilanes, Francisco. El joven delincuente en Guayaquil: estudio psiquitrico.
Guayaquil: Unin Grfica, 1983. 251 p.
8539. Dalmau Gavilanes, Francisco. Magia mdica y psicoterapia en el Ecuador: con un anexo
de psiquiatra folklrica en la costa ecuatoriana. Guayaquil: Edit. de la Universidad de Guayaquil,
1988. 230 p.
8540. Davies, David. T he Centenarians of the A ndes. London: Barrie and Jenkins, 1975. 126
p.
Davies was one of the discoverers of the exceptionally old and extraordinarily healthy
villagers of Vilcabamba.
8541. Deterioro de la vida: un instrumento para anlisis de prioridades regionales en lo social y la
salud, Jaime Breilh [et al.]. Quito: Corporacin Editora Nacional; Centro de Estudios y Asesora
en Salud, 1990. 508 p. (Biblioteca de ciencias sociales; 28)
8542. Ecuador, N utrition Survey: a Report. Washington, D.C.: Interdepartamental
Committee on Nutrition for National Defense, 1960. x, 230 p.
8543. Eigenmann, C.H. Yellow Fever and Fishes, Proceedings of the A merican Philosophical
Society, 61 (1922), 204-211.
On the eradication of yellow fever in Guayaquil, specifically on the utilization of two
specifies of fish (Lebiasina bimaculata and Dormitator latifrons locally known as huaijas and
chalacos) in water barrels to keep the water free from yellow fever mosquitoes.
8544. Escolar, Jos Domingo. N atalidad, morbilidad y mortalidad infantil en Guayaquil.
Guayaquil: Librera e Impr. La Reforma, 1915. 19 p.
8545. Espinosa Tamayo, Luis. Contribution a ltude de la gographie mdicale et des conditions
hyginiques de la Rpublique de lEquateur. Lausanne: Impr. de la Socit Suisse de Publicit [para
el] Institut dhygine exprimentale et de parasitologie de lUniversit de Lausanne, 1917. 88 p.
The authors doctoral dissertation. One of the first, if not the first, study of the medical
geography of the country.
8546. Estrella, Eduardo. Funcin maternal y sexualidad: un estudio de mujeres de una poblacin
campesina de la Provincia de Pichincha. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1991. 137 p.
8547. Estrella, Eduardo. Medicina aborigen: la prctica aborigen de la sierra ecuatoriana. Quito:
Edit. Epoca, 1977. 239 p.
8548. Evans, Ralph Poston. La epidemiologa tropical de las regiones de Zaruma y Portovelo.
Cuenca: Tip. de la Universidad, 1935. 54 p.
8549. Fassin, Didier. Letat equatorien face aux ingalits de sanit, Problmes dA mrique
Latine, 99 (1991), 91-103.
Discusses public health conditions since the 1960s. Emphasizes the negative impact of the
economic crisis of the 1980s on health care, especially in rural areas.
8550. Fassio, Gustavo A. Introduccin al estudio de la alimentacin en el Ecuador. Guayaquil:
Impr. La Reforma, 1930. 28 p.
8551. Finerman, Ruthbeth D. The Burden of Responsibility: Duty, Depression, and
Nervios in Andean Ecuador, Gender, Health, and Illness: the Case of N erves, edited by Dona L.
Davis and Setha M. Low (New York: Hemisphere, 1989), p. 49-65.
8552. Finerman, Ruthbeth D. Experience and Expectation: Conflict and Change in
Traditional Family Health Care Among the Quichua of Saraguro, Social Science & Medicine,
17:12 (Dec. 1983), 1291-1298.
8553. Finerman, Ruthbeth D. The Forgotten Healers: Women as Family Healers in an
Andean Indian Community, Women as Healers: Cross-Cultural Perspectives, edited by Carol
Shepherd McClain (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989), p. 28-41.
Based on research conducted in Saraguro between 1978 and 1988, Finerman suggests that
dependence on mothers as curers is not a result of cultural conservatism . . . or lack of access to
other . . . therapeutic resources. Instead, medical choice was found to be related to the
environmental, social, and cultural costs and benefits of consulting specialists and motherhealers.
8554. Finerman, Ruthbeth D. Health Care Decisions in an Andean Indian Community:
Getting the Best of Both Worlds. 1985. xi, 294 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)University of
California at Los Angeles.
8555. Finerman, Ruthbeth D. Inside Out: Womens World View and Family Health in an
Ecuadorian Indian Community, Social Science & Medicine, 25:10 (Oct. 1987), 1157-1162.
8556. Finerman, Ruthbeth D. A Matter of Life and Death: Health Care Change in an
Andean Community, Social Science & Medicine, 18:4 (Apr. 1984), 329-334.
8569. Jaramillo Alvarado, Po. Memoria del Hospital de Loja. Loja: Tip. del Colegio
Nacional, 1916. 69 p.
8570. Jijn Bello, Manuel. Principales causas de insalubridad de Quito: la actual epidemia, su
profilaxis. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1907. 14 p.
8571. Kempf, Judith. The Dynamics of Culture and Health: Disease and Curing Among
the Ecuadorian Coaiquer Indians Under the Impact of Acculturation. 1982. 260, [12] leaves.
Thesis (Ph.D.)State University of New York, Albany.
8572. Kroeger, Axel; and Elena Ilechkova. Salud y alimentacin entre los Shuar. Suca:
Mundo Shuar, 1983. 105 p.
8573. Kroeger, Axel; and H.P. Franken, Educational Value of Participatory Evaluation of
Primary Health Care Programmes: an Experience with Four Indigenous Populations in Ecuador,
Social Science & Medicine, 15B:4 (Oct. 1981), 535-539.
A comparative study of primary health care programs and facilities among four indigenous
groups (Eastern lowland and highland Quichua, Shuar, and Saraguro).
8574. Leaf, Alexander. Every Day Is a Gift When You Are Over 100, N ational Geographic,
144:1 (Jan. 1973), 93-119.
An impressionistic account of Vilcabambas alleged centenarians.
8575. Len, Luis A. El mal del pinto en el Ecuador. Quito: Tall. Grf. de Educacin, 1942.
30 p.
8576. Len, Luis A. Revisin de los conocimientos sobre el mal del pinto o carate en el Ecuador.
Quito: Impr. de la Universidad, 1951. 47 p.
8577. Liga Ecuatoriana Antituberculosa. 20 aos de intensa labor. Guayaquil: Departamento
de Educacin e Informacin Antituberculosa de L.E.A., 1960. 1 v. (not paginated). Chiefly ill.
8578. Managing Medical Supply Logistics among Health Workers in Ecuador, Richard A.
Reid [et al.], Social Science & Medicine, 22:1 (Jan. 1986), 9-14.
8579. Marcial Toro, Juan E. Terapia folklrica del Ecuador: relacin de la medicina folklrica
con la medicina moderna. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1988. 133 p.
8580. Marn, Jacinto D. La medicina en la Regin Oriental. Quito: Edit. de El Comercio,
1940. 9 p.
8581. Martnez V., Luis J. A lgunos datos sobre la epidemia de peste bubnica en A mbato.
Ambato: Impr. El Pueblo, 1916. 33 p.
8582. Mauro, Amalia. La vida es larga y nos importa mucho: la salud en las familias de sectores
populares urbanos. Quito: CEPLAES, 1992. viii, 114 p.
8583. Mazess, Richard B.; and Sylvia Helen Forman. Longevity and Age Exaggeration in
Vilcabamba, Ecuador, Journal of Gerontology, 39:1 (Jan. 1979), 94-98.
8584. Mazess, Richard B.; and R.W. Mathiesen. Lack of Unusual Longevity in
Vilcabamba, Ecuador, Human Biology, 54:3 (Mar. 1982), 517-524.
Maintains that age exaggeration and misinterpretation of registers of baptismsnot unusually
long life spanwere responsible for Vilcabambas claims to be a Shangri-la. Based on review of
vital registration data from 1907 through 1979.
8585. McKee, Lauris A. Los cuerpos tiernos: simbolismo y magia en las prcticas post-parto
en Ecuador, A mrica indgena, 42:4 (oct./dic. 1982), 615-628.
8586. McKee, Lauris A. Ethnomedical Treatment of Childrens Diarrheal Illnesses in the
Highlands of Ecuador, Social Science & Medicine, 25:10 (Oct. 1987), 1147-1155.
8587. Medio ambiente y salud en el Ecuador, Jos Surez Torres [et al.], 1 ed. Quito:
Fundacin Natura, 1992. 285 p.
8588. Mena, Vicente. Algunos aspectos de medicina popular en la Calera, Revista del
folklore ecuatoriano, 3 (ene. 1969), 5-40.
8589. Merchan, Nicanor. Fiebre paratficas en las comarcas azuayas. Cuenca: Impreso por
Manuel J. Vintimilla, 1921. 25 p.
8590. Montalvn Cornejo, Juan A. Paludismo en el Ecuador. Guayaquil: Impr. Lucn, 1946.
86 p.
8591. Montalvn Cornejo, Juan A.; and Oswaldo Barrera Sosa. Fiebre amarilla y
leptospirosis en Guayaquil, A nales de la Benemrita Sociedad Mdico Quirrgica del Guayas
(1970/71), 145-165.
8592. La Mortalidad y las polticas de salud en el Ecuador. Quito: Centro de Estudios de
Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable, 1985. 32 p.
8593. Naranjo, Plutarco. Ayahuasca: etnomedicina y mitologa. Quito: Ediciones Libri
Mundi, 1983. 222 p.
8594. Naranjo, Plutarco. El cocasmo entre los aborgenes de Sud Amrica: su difusin y
extincin en el Ecuador, A mrica indgena, 34:3 (jul./sep. 1974), 605-628.
8595. Naranjo, Plutarco. Desnutricin, problemas y soluciones. Quito: IESS, 1985. 230 p.
8596. N uestra alimentacin: resultados de nuestra investigacin-accin sobre la alimentacin del
pueblo de Pucar y Shaglly. Cuenca: Centro de Educacin y Capacitacin del Campesinado del
Azuay (CECCA), 1984. 182 p.
Pucar y Shaglly (usually referred to just as Pucar) is a mestizo pueblo in southwestern
Azuay.
8597. N utricin y desarrollo en los A ndes ecuatorianos, editores: Marco Varea Tern, Jos
Varea Tern. Quito: Artes Grficas, [1974?]. 428 p.
8598. Nutritional and Health Status of Rural Women Colonists in the Subtropical
Lowlands of Northwest Ecuador, M. Margaret Weigel [et al.], Ecology of Food and N utrition, 29:1
(1992), 25-43.
Examines nutritional and health status of adult women living in isolated areas of
northwestern Pichincha (Province).
8599. Pareja, Wenceslao. A lgunos datos sobre la peste bubnica en Guayaquil. Guayaquil:
Librera e Impr. La Reforma, 1915. 42 p.
8600. Pedersen, Duncan; and Carlos Colina. Traditional Medicine in Ecuador: the
Structure of the Non-Formal Health Systems, Social Science & Medicine, 17:17 (1983), 12491255.
8601. Pobreza urbana, enfermedad y comportamiento popular, Fernando Caldern [et al.].
Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1991. 208 p.
A study of poverty in the capital and of relationships between poverty and disease.
8602. Polticas de salud y pueblos indios, Carlos Tern y Miguel Malo, compiladores, 1 ed.
Quito: Universidad Andina Simn Bolvar, Subsede Ecuador; MSP-OPS-OMS; Abya-Yala,
1995. 189 p.
8603. La Prctica mdica tradicional en las Provincias del A zuay, Caar, El Oro y Morona
Santiago, Alberto Quezada Ramn [et al.]. Cuenca: IDICSA, 1988. 3 v. (695 p.)
8604. Price, Laurie J. In the Shadow of Biomedicine: Self Medication in Two Ecuadorian
Pharmacies, Social Science & Medicine, 28:9 (Sept. 1989), 905-915.
8605. Primary Health Services in Ecuador: Comparative Costs, Quality, and Equity of Care
in Ministry of Health and Rural Social Security Facilities, Robert L. Robertson [et al.], Social
Science & Medicine, 32:12 (Dec. 1991), 1327-1336.
A comparative study of costs, quality, and financial equity of Ministerio de Salud Pblica and
Servicio Social Ecuatoriano primary health care services.
8606. Quevedo Coronel, Rafael. Estudio mdico social de la tuberculosis pulmonor en la regin
interandina del Ecuador. Quito: Impr. Municipal, 1939. 329 p.
8607. Ribadeneira, Juan Carlos. Pobreza urbana: enfermedad y comportamiento popular, 1 ed.
Quito: Centro Andino de Accin Popular, 1991. 208 p.
A study of a neighborhood clinic in the outskirts of the capital. Examines interaction
between socioeconomic conditions and illness.
8608. Rodrguez, Germn. La faz oculta de la medicina andina. Quito: Ncleo de Amrica
Ecuatorial, 1992. 165 p.
8609. Rodrguez, Lilia. Nutricin, consumo y cocina popular, Ecuador debate, 9 (sept.
1985), 243-255.
8610. Sacoto A., Fernando; Carlos Tern P.; and Fausto Andrade L. La atencin de la salud
en el Ecuador: contribuciones para el debate. Quito: Movimiento Laico para Amrica Latina, 1992.
272 p.
8611. Senz, Angel R. Breves observaciones acerca del clima de la ciudad de Quito con relacin a
algunas enfermedades. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1905. 27 p.
8612. Senz, Juan Pablo. Estado actual de la higiene escolar en el Ecuador. Quito: Tall. Grf.
de Educacin, 1942. 93 p.
8613. Sanhueza Alvarado, Ricardo. El mal de ojo, mito o realidad: prcticas manabitas,
A ntropologa ecuatoriana, 2/3 (1984), 125-141.
8614. Sola Villena, Jos Humberto. Crisis de salud en las comunidades indgenas: impacto de los
programs estatales en el occidente de la Provincia de Cotopaxi, Ecuador. Cusco: Centro de Estudios
Regionales Andinos Bartolom de las Casas, 1991. 193 p.
8615. Surez, Jos. La salud pblica: crisis y alternativas. Quito: Ecuador Siglo XXI; Consejo
Nacional de Desarrollo; Proyecto CONADE/GTZ, 1992. 139, iii p.
Published together with: Marco Pozo and Luis Rivadeneira, Cambios en la dinmica de la
poblacin, 2 ed. (item 8782).
8616. Surez, Pablo Arturo. A lgunas observaciones sobre la peste negra y la pulga Cheopis en el
Ecuador. Quito: Tall. Tip. Nacionales, 1927. 18 p.
8617. Surez, Pablo Arturo. Contribucin al estudio del problema de la tuberculosis en el
Ecuador. Quito: Impr. de la Universidad Central, 1935. 84 p.
8618. Systems of Medical Knowledge: a Case Study of the Use of Botanicals among
Physicians in Guaranda, Ecuador, Anthony Cavendar [et al.], SECOLA S A nnals, 27 (Mar.
1996), 58-67.
8619. Trumper, Ricardo; and Lynne Phillips. Cholera in the Time of Neoliberalism: the
Cases of Chile and Ecuador, A lternatives: Social Transformation and Humane Governance, 20:2
(Apr./June 1995), 165-193.
Examines the impact of politics on how national governments of Chile and Ecuador reacted
to and coped with the epidemic of 1991-1993.
8620. Valenzuela, Alfredo J. Breve resumen sobre la patologa ecuatoriana y su distribucin
geogrfica. Guayaquil: [s.n.], 1921. 57 p.
8621. Valenzuela, Alfredo J. Fiebre tifoidea en Guayaquil. Guayaquil: Impr. Municipal, 1916.
8622. Varea Q., Marco T. Botnica mdica nacional. Quito: Grf. San Pablo, 1981. xiii, 161
p.
8623. Varea Tern, Jos; and Mauro Rivadeneira. Bocio y sal yodada en el Ecuador: situacin
actual. Quito: Fundacin Ciencia para Estudios del Hombre y la Naturaleza, 1980. 104 p.
8624. Vela Chiriboga, Guillermo; and Mara del Carmen Alarcn de Vela. Secretos de
Vilcabamba para vivir siempre joven, 1 ed. Quito: Corporacin de Estudios y Publicaciones, 1989.
359 p.
8625. Wandemberg, Benjamn; and Jaime Rivadeneira. El paludismo del Valle de los Chillos.
Quito: Impr. del Ministerio de Educacin, 1941. 39 p.
8626. Whitten, Norman E., Jr.; and Dorothea S. Whitten. Report of a Process Linking
Basic Science Research with an Action Oriented Program for Research Subjects, Human
Organization: Journal of the Society for A pplied A nthropology, 36:1 (Spring 1977), 101-105.
Reports on medical care program instigated by the Whittens for their Canelos Quichua
informants.
Women
The in-depth study of women and of their roles in the past and present of Ecuador dates
from the closing decades of the twentieth century. Previously ignored except for the occasional
saint, sinner, and heroine such as Mariana de Jess, Manuela Senz, and Marietta de
Veintemilla, far reaching studies of women in the economic and social as well as in the cultural
and political life of Ecuador began to appear in the late twentieth century. Four important
examples of the increasing sophistication of womens studies as well as important studies in their
own right are and that came to my attention too late for inclusion as separate entries: 1) Jenny
Londoo Lpezs A ngeles o demonios?: las mujeres y la Iglesia en la A udiencia de Quito, 1 ed.
(Guaranda: Universidad Estatal de Bolvar; Quito: Centro para el Desarrollo Social, 1995; 121
p.); 2) Palabras del silencio: las mujeres latinoamericana y su historia, Martha Moscoso
(compiladora) (Quito: Abya-Yala; DGIS/Holanda; UNICEF, 1995; 407 p.); 3) Marjan Renss
De helft van de wereld: vrouwen, identiteit en symboliek in Ecuador (Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis,
1993; 98 p.); and 4) Y el amor no era todo ...: mujeres, imgenes y conflictos, Martha Moscoso,
editora (Quito, Abya-Yala; DGIS/Holanda, 1996; 215 p.).
Palabras del silencio includes three contributions of particular importance to Ecuadorianists: 1)
Vernica Montfar Mancheno, Poder y continuidad: mujeres del estrato popular urbano: Quito
en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX (p. 77-94); 2) A. Kim Clarks Gnero, raza y nacin: la
proteccin a la infancia en el Ecuador, 1910-1945 (p. 219-256); and 3) Martha Moscosos La
historia de las mujeres en el Ecuador (p. 383-399), a review of the then nascent literature. The
Rens monograph is a study of how indigenous women of the community of San Pedro de
Cochapamba think of themselves and of their place in the community. Y el amor no era todo,
not yet seen by me, is supposed to consist of essay on the history of women in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries.
8630. Cisternos, Tatiana; and Irene Paredes Vsconez. A qu nosotras. Quito: Unin
Nacional de Mujeres del Ecuador, 1990. 93 p.
A study of family violence, especially of spouse abuse.
8631. Correa Len, Sandra. Mujer, situacin social y jurdico laboral en el Ecuador. Quito:
Fundacin Friedrich Naumann: Ministerio de Bienestar Social: Comit Ecuatoriano de
Cooperacin con la Comisin Interamericana de Mujeres, 1990. xx, 283 p.
Details changes in civil and labor codes in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, regarding the status
and rights of women.
8632. Crespi, Muriel. Mujeres campesinas como lderes sindicales, Estudios andinos, 5:1
(junio 1976), 151-171.
8633. Cuvi Snchez, Mara; and Alexandra Martnez Flores. El muro interior: las relaciones de
gnero en el Ecuador de fines del siglo XX. Quito: Centro de Planificacin y Estudios SocialesCEPLAES, 1994. xvii, 156 p.
8634. Diagnostico de la situacin de la mujer en el Ecuador, 1980-1994: informe nacional para la
Cuarta Conferencia Mundial sobre la Mujer, Beijing, 1995. Quito: CECIM 1994. 281 p.
Compiled by Eduardo Ramos Peaherrera, Mara Eugenia de Mora, and Aida Gallegos de
Moncayo under the direction of Mercedes Jimnez de Vega. Examines economic, social, and
legal conditions and status of women in the 1980s and the first half of the 1990s.
8635. Entre los lmites y las rupturas: las mujeres ecuatorianas en la dcada del 80. Quito:
ACDI-CEPLAES, 1992. xiv, 408 p.
A collection of well researched and documented essays on the status of women in the 1980s.
8636. Faulkner, Anne H.; and Victoria A. Lawson. Employment Versus Empowerment: a
Case Study of Womens Work in Ecuador, Journal of Development Studies, 27:3 (July 1991), 1647.
Evaluates the paradigm of womens disparate access to means and rewards of productive
activity by examining the differences in male and females occupations as assessed by the
population censuses of 1974 and 1982.
8637. Formas de participacin de la mujer en cinco zonas rurales del Ecuador. Quito: Central
Ecuatoriana de Servicios Agrcolas, 1987. 106 p.
Consists of five case studies of the condition of women in geographically and economic
distinct, largely indigenous rural communities as of the 1980s.
8638. Gua de la mujer ecuatoriana. Quito: ILDIS: CEPAM, 1986. 167 p.
8639. Hamilton, Sarah. Visible Partners: Womens Labor and Management of Agricultural
Capital on Small Farms in the Highlands of Central Ecuador, Urban A nthropology and Studies of
Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 21:4 (Winter 1992), 353-383.
Argues that the systematic exclusion of women farmers from development projects
compromised the adoption of appropriate technology and the improvement of household
income and nutrition. Although many women were farmers in their own right, the
misconception persisted that it is men who make the decisions and therefore determine
productivity. Based on field research in rural communities of Canton Salcedo, Province of
Cotopaxi.
See also Hamiltons study of the former hacienda of Chanchal in the aforesaid canton, her
doctoral dissertation: The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Agricultural Development in
an Andean Setting. 1995. ix, 472 leaves. University of Kentucky. Subsequently published as:
The Two-Headed Household: Gender and Rural Development in the Ecuadorean Andes.
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998. x, 296 p.
8640. Hatarishpa ninimi = Me levanto y digo: testimonio de tres mujeres quichua, entrevistas de
Martha Bulnes. Quito: Edit. El Conejo, 1990. 152 p.
In Quichua and Spanish. Publishes interviews with: Josefina Amaguaa, an Otavalea and a
member of a family of weavers; Trnsito Amaguaa, one of the leaders of the 1920 uprisings in
Cayambe; and Nina Pacari of Cotacachi, a member of a family that was undergoing
mestization as of the 1980s, according to Bulnes.
8641. Jmenez de Vega, Mercedes. La mujer ecuatoriana: frustraciones y esperanzas. Quito:
Banco Central del Ecuador, 1981. 123 p.
8642. Lind, Amy Conger. Power, Gender, and Development: Popular Womens
Organizations and the Politics of Needs in Ecuador, T he Making of Social Movements in Latin
A merica: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy, edited by Arturo Escobar and Sonia E. Alvarez
(Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), p. 134-149.
A solid introduction to womens rights organizations. Includes a discussion of the
relationship between the womens movement and the state.
Also published in Spanish as: Poder, genero y desarrollo: las organizaciones populares de
mujeres y la poltica de necesidades en Ecuador, Mujeres y participacin poltica: avances y desafos
en A mrica Latina, Magdalena Len (compiladora) (Bogot: TM Editores, 1994), p. 205-226.
8643. Luzuriaga C., Carlos. Situacin de la mujer en el Ecuador: comentarios derivados de una
revisin de la literatura. Quito: Misin de USAID en el Ecuador, 1980. 109 p.
8644. Manzo Rodas, Rosa; Marena Briones Velastegui; and Tatiana Cordero Velsquez.
N osotras, las seoras alegres, 1 ed. Quito: Abrapalabra Editores, 1991. 95 p.
Narratives of prostitutes and members of the Asociacin Femenina de Trabajadoras
Autnomas 22 de Junio de El Oro.
8645. McKee, Lauris. Mens Rights/Womens Wrongs: Domestic Violence in Ecuador,
Sanctions and Sanctuary: Cultural Perspectives on the Beating of Wives, edited by Dorothy Ayers
Counts, Judith K. Brown, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), p. 131156.
A study of the mestizo and Indian community of Las Flores in the Province of Tungurahua.
8662. Que significa ser mujer rural. Quito: Direccin Nacional de la Mujer, 1991. 83 p.
8663. Robalino C., Magaly; Marco Villarruel A.; and Edgar Isch L. Mujeres invisibles: un
estudio del sexismo en la docencia y en los textos escolares ecuatorianos. Quito: Ministerio de
Bienestar Social-DINAMU: Ministerio de Educacin y Cultura-CENAISE-UNICEF, 1992. vii,
58 p.
8664. Rodrguez, Lilia; and Magdalena Len T. Lineamientos para incorporar las necesidades
de gnero en las polticas sociales. Quito: DINAMU, Ministerio de Bienestar Social, [1990?].
8665. Rodrguez de Troya, Luzmila. Examen y evaluacin de la dcada de la mujer en el
Ecuador, 1976-1985. Quito: Comit Ecuatoriano de Cooperacin con la Comisin
Interamericana de Mujeres, 1984. iii, 253 p.
8666. Romo-Leroux, Ketty. La mujer: dura lucha por la igualdad. Guayaquil: Universidad de
Guayaquil, 1983. 300 p.
Updates and expands upon item 8667.
8667. Romo-Leroux, Ketty. Situacin jurdica y social de la mujer en el Ecuador. Guayaquil:
Universidad de Guayaquil, 1975. 248 p.
Published under authors married name: Ketty Romo Leroux de Morales. Her explicit
purpose was consciousness raising among women and progressive men. At the same time a
study of the historical development of the social and legal status of women in Ecuador. Highly
informative.
8668. Situacin de la mujer empleada bajo regimen de dependencia. Quito: Instituto Ecuatoriano
de Investigacin y Capacitacin de la Mujer, 1989. 100 p.
8669. Situacin de la mujer en la economa informal: caso ecuatoriano. Quito: Instituto
Ecuatoriano de Investigacin y Capacitacin de la Mujer, 1991. xiii, 61 p.
A methodologically questionable study of women in the informal economy. Based on sample
of mico-enterprises in the vicinity of the capital.
8670. Situacin de las obreras industriales de Quito. Quito: Direccin Nacional de la Mujer,
1991. 59 p.
8671. Stark, Louisa R. The Role of Women in Peasant Uprisings in the Ecuadorian
Highlands, Political A nthropology of Ecuador (item 7956), p. 3-23.
See also Starks Division of Labor and the Control of Economic Resources among Indian
Women in the Ecuadorian Highlands, A ndean Perspectives, 3 (1979), 1-5.
8672. Stlen, Kristi Anne. A media voz: relaciones de gnero en la sierra ecuatoriana, 1 ed.
Quito: CEPLAES, 1987. 173 p.
8673. Stlen, Kristi Anne. A media voz: ser mujer campesina en la sierra ecuatoriana, 1 ed.
Quito: CEPLAES, 1987. 173 p.
Notwithstanding the similarities in title and the identical number of pages, items 8672 and
8673 are separate, distinct works. The latter is a study of peasant women in Caipi.
8674. Stlen, Kristi Anne. Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Ecuador, Ethnos, 56:1/2
(1991), 82-100.
A study of the mestizo community of Caipi, near Machachi, Pichincha. Like McKee (item
8642), Stlen finds wife beatings to be widespread and long standing.
8675. Torres Q., Magdalena. La mujer, el empleo y la fecundidad en el Ecuador, colaboracin
de Richard Bilsborrow [et al.]. Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad
Responsable, 1985. 116 p.
8676. Unin Nacional de Mujeres del Ecuador. A qu nosotras: UN ME en la Dcada de la
Mujer, 1975-1985, editora Irene Paredes Vsconez. Quito: UNME, 1988. 758 p.
8677. Unin Popular de Mujeres de Loja. ...y no tenamos voz! Cuenca: Universidad de
Cuenca, Departamento de Difusin Cultural, 1985. 174 p.
8678. Vzquez Fuller, Beatriz. La mujer indgena, A mrica indgena, 34:3 (jul./sep. 1974),
663-676.
8679. Vega Ugalde, Silvia. Participacin de las mujeres en las elecciones. Quito: Grupo de
Mujeres Tomasa Garcs, 1988. 17 p.
8680. Weiss, Wendy A. Es el que manda: Sexual Inequality and Its Relation to Economic
Development in the Ecuadorian Sierra. 1985. x, 226, 5 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)Bryn Mawr
College.
8681. Women, Work and the N eed for Child Care: Opportunities for Programmatic
Collaboration: a Review of UN ICEF-Supported Programmes in N epal, Ecuador and Ethiopia, edited
by Cassie Landers and Ann Leonard. New York: UNICEF, 1992. 89 p.
Population
There are or at least were two journals devoted to population developments and issues: Correo
poblacional (vol. 1, no. 1 [1993]-), published by the Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y
Paternidad Responsable in Quito; and Poblacin y desarrollo: revista del Centro de Estudios
Poblacionales, I.D.I.S. (no. 1 [1984]-), published by the Center of Population Studies of the
Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales (Universidad de Cuenca) conjointly with the United
Nations Fund for Population Activities.
8682. Alberto, Ana Lizon; and Gloria Montero. Land of Beginning Again, T he Canadian
Forum, 55:654 (Sept. 1975), 23-28.
A case study of Ecuadorian and Uruguayan women immigrants. Authors find that the
women studied were forced to migrate to Canada by the economic situations in their countries
and that they would have preferred to have gone to the United States but settled for Canada,
given the latters more liberal immigration and refugee policies.
An exercise in population forecasting. Also examines the ability of agriculture to keep pace
with expected increase in population.
8698. Borja M., Eduardo. Factores determinantes de una mortalidad prematura en Ecuador.
Voorburg, Netherlands: World Fertility Survey; London: World Fertility Survey, 1985. 31 p.
(World Fertility Survey Scientific Reports; no. 74)
8699. Brea, Jorge A. Migration and Circulation in Ecuador, Tijdschrift voor Economische en
Sociale Geografie (Leiden), 82:3 (1991), 206-214.
Examines mobility of labor as a function of the socioeconomic structure of places and
individuals. Focuses on the impact of agrarian change on internal migration. Finds that many
rural males migrate seasonally or for long periods to cities and towns but retain ownership of
land in their native villages.
8700. Brown, Lawrence A.; Jorge A. Brea; and Andres R. Goetz. Policy Aspects of
Development and Individual Mobility: Migration and Circulation from Ecuadors Rural Sierra,
Economic Geography, 64:2 (Apr. 1988), 147-170.
Examines out migration from the rural highlands between 1974 and 1982, and the
differential impact of agrarian reform on rural inhabitants of the highlands during the period in
question.
8701. Cabrera, Luis Mario. La dinmica demogrfica de Cuenca: anlisis del perodo 19501982, Revista del IDIS, 19 (nov. 1988), 141-160.
8702. Carpio Benlcazar, Patricio. Entre pueblos y metrpolis: la migracin internacional en
comunidades austroandinas del Ecuador. Cuenca: ILDIS; Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1992. 220
p.
8703. Carrasco, Hernn. Migracin temporal en la sierra: una estrategia de
recampesinizacin, El Campesino contemporneo: cambios recientes en los pases andinos, edicin
de Fernando Bernal C. (Bogot: CEREC: Tercer Mundo Editores: Fundacin Friedrich Ebert de
Colombia: Estudios Rurales Latinoamericanos, 1990), p. 151-184.
Carrasco concludes that peasants employ short-term migration to urban areas to supplement
income derived from their primary endeavors and therefore that out migration does not in fact
relieve pressure on the land. This is a well documented phenomenon in Ecuador in the past as
well as the present. The real question is the extent to which short-term migration prevails over
long-term migration.
8704. Casagrande, Joseph B.; Stephen I. Thompson; and Philip D. Young. Colonization as
a Research Frontier: the Ecuadorian Case, Process and Pattern in Culture: Essays in Honor of
Julian H. Steward, edited by Robert A. Manners (Chicago: Aldine, 1964), p. 281-325.
8705. Castillo, Mario; Ana Mara Gonzlez; and Azucena Vicua. El desarrollo
demogrfico-espacial de la ciudad de Puyo, Geografa y desarrollo (Quito: Centro Panamericano
de Estudios e Investigaciones Geogrficas, 1982), p. 273-298.
8706. Cisneros Cisneros, Csar. Demografa y estadstica sobre el indio ecuatoriano. Quito:
Tall. Grf. Nacionales, 1948. 348 p.
Cisneros doctoral dissertation. Undertaken before the first national census of 1950, this
work remains useful for statistical data from the 1940s. In most respects, however, it has been
superseded by more recent, better documented, and more methodologically sophisticated studies.
8707. Cisneros Cisneros, Csar. Indian Migration from the Andean Zone of Ecuador to
the Lowlands, A mrica indgena, 19:3 (jul./sep. 1959), 225-231.
8708. La Colonizacin en el Ecuador. Quito: Instituto Nacional de Colonizacin, 1959. 80 p.
8709. Compendio bsico poblacional. Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad
Responsable, 1990. 110 p.
A useful introduction to the state and movement of the population in the 1980s. Written for
nonspecialists.
8710. Conforti, Emilio A. Colonizacin, reforma agraria, migraciones internas: consideraciones,
sugerencias, propuestas, ed. preliminar. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin
Econmica, 1960. 128 p.
8711. Chen, Kwan Hwa; Samuel Wishnik; and Susan C.M. Scrimshaw. The Effects of
Unstable Sexual Unions on Fertility in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Human Biology, 21:4 (Winter
1974), 353-359.
Analyzes age-specific fertility for nearly 2,000 women and 1,000 men. Instability of
consensual unions results in lost reproductive time and an increase in number of partners per
person. Such lost reproductive time lowered the fertility of males, but the effects of unstable
relations upon fertility of females are not clear-cut.
8712. Delaunay, Daniel. Cartografa demogrfica de las parroquias ecuatorianas. Quito:
CEDIG, 1987. 40 p., 32 maps.
8713. Delaunay, Daniel. Ecuador, cartografa de las poblaciones parroquiales. Quito: CEDIG,
1987. 64 p. (Documentos de investigacin. Serie Demografa y geografa de la poblacin; no. 5)
8714. Delaunay, Daniel. Espacios demogrficos y redes migratorias en el Ecuador, Flujos
geogrficos en el Ecuador (item 7639), p. 71-98.
8715. Delaunay, Daniel. La fecundidad en las provincias ecuatorianas, 1954-1985. Quito:
CEDIG, 1986. 66 p. (Documentos de investigacin. Serie Demografa y geografa de la
poblacin; no. 4)
8716. Delaunay, Daniel. La medida de las mortalidades provinciales en el Ecuador. Quito:
CEDIG, 1988. 162 p. (Documentos de investigacin. Serie Demografa y geografa de la
poblacin; no. 7)
8717. Delaunay, Daniel. Migraciones internas en el Ecuador, 1950-1982. Quito: Centro
Ecuatoriano de Investigacin Geogrfica (CEDIG), 1987. 165 p. (Documentos de
investigacin. Serie Demografa y geografa de la poblacin; no. 4)
8718. Delaunay, Daniel. Revolucin demogrfica en el Ecuador, Cultura, 8:24b (ene./abr.
1986), 493-506.
Also published in French as: Rvolution dmographique en Equateur, Equateur 1986 (Paris:
Editions de lORSTOM, 1989), vol. 1, p. 209-226.
8719. Delaunay, Daniel; Juan B. Len Velasco; and Michel Portais. Transicin demogrfica
en el Ecuador, 1 ed. Quito: CEDIG, 1990. 269 p. (Geografa bsica del Ecuador; t. 2).
(Geografa de la poblacin; vol. 1)
Able analysis of the state and movement of the population from the first modern or truly
national census of 1950 through the fertility and related surveys of the 1970s and 1980s, mostly
by the senior author. Includes two background chapters on known, inferred, and conjectured
pre-1950 trends and developments.
8720. Demografa y aspectos socioeconmicos del Ecuador. Quito: Junta Nacional de
Planificacin Econmica, 1971. 153 leaves.
Publishes papers presented at the 1971 Seminario sobre Poblacin y Desarrollo sponsored
by the Organization of American States and the Junta Nacional de Planificacin Econmica.
8721. Duverneuil, Franois. Distribucin de la poblacin en la Provincia de Loja y su
evolucin entre 1950 y 1974, Cultura, 5:15 (ene./abr. 1983), 255-284.
8722. Ecuador. Presidencia. Plan de colonizacin italiana. Quito: Tall. Grf. Nacionales,
1950. 127 p.
8723. Ecuador, estimaciones y proyecciones de poblacin, 1950-2000. Quito: Consejo Nacional
de Desarrollo; Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censo; Centro Latinoamericano de
Demografa, 1984. 150 p.
8724. Ecuador, poblacin y crisis. Quito: CICE, 1973. 79 p.
8725. Ecuador, proyecciones de poblacin por provincias, cantones, reas, sexo y grupos de edad:
perodo 1990-2000. Quito: Edit. San Luis [para el] Instituto Nacional de Estadstica y Censos,
1994. viii, 101 p.
8726. Ekstrom, John Peter. Colonization East of the Andes: Responding to a New
Ecology. 1979. vii, 174 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)University of Illinois, Urbana.
8727. Emigracin rural y desarrollo agrcola en la sierra ecuatoriana, Revista geogrfica
(Mxico, D.F.), 93 (ene./jun. 1981), 7-35.
8728. Farrell, Gilda. Migracin temporal y trabajo urbano. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1985.
27 p.
8729. Farrell, Gilda. Los migrantes campesinos en la sierra. Quito: Pontificia Universidad
Catlica del Ecuador, Instituto de Investigaciones Econmicas: Centro de Investigaciones y
Estudios Socio Econmicos, 1983. 25 p.
8730. Farrell, Gilda; Simn Pachano; and Hernn Carrasco. Caminantes y retornos. Quito:
Instituto de Estudios Ecuatorianos, 1988. 167 p.
Argues that peasants migrate to remain peasants, in other words, that they seek temporary
employment elsewhere, especially in the cities, in order to supplement the income they derive
from the land.
8763. Ordez Sotomayor, Jos; and Francisco Aguirre. Boletn socio-demogrfico: N apo.
Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable, 1986. 54 p.
8764. Ordez Sotomayor, Jos; and Francisco Aguirre. Boletn socio-demogrfico: Pichincha.
Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable, 1986. 59 p.
8765. Ordez Sotomayor, Jos; and Francisco Aguirre. Boletn socio-demogrfico:
Tungurahua. Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable, 1986. 59 p.
8766. Pachano, Simn. Migracin desde un pueblo serrano: Guaytacama, Ecuador debate,
8 (abr. 1985), 129-152.
8767. Pachano, Simn. Pueblos de la sierra. Quito: Programa de Investigaciones Sociales
sobre Poblacin en Amrica Latina: Instituto de Estudios Ecuatorianos, 1986. 162 p.
8768. Pachano, Simn. Sobrepoblacin relativa: un acercamiento al caso del campesinado
serrano, Revista ciencias sociales (Quito), 4:12 (1981), 110-136.
8769. Papail, Jean. Migracin y fuerza de trabajo en el agro serrano-ecuatoriano: algunos
problemas ligados al uso de los datos censales, Ecuador debate, 11 (jun. 1986), 57-75.
8770. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. La distribucin geogrfica de la poblacin del Ecuador. Quito:
Universidad, 1938. 32 p.
8771. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. La poblacin de Quito en 1933, Gaceta Municipal (Quito),
19:79 (oct./dic. 1934), 104-117.
8772. Paz y Mio, Luis Telmo. Se puede levantar el censo?. Quito: Reinoso, 1939. 31 p.
8773. Peek, Peter. Agrarian Change and Labor Migration in the Sierra of Ecuador, State
Policies and Migration: Studies in Latin A merica and the Caribbean, edited by Peter Peek and Guy
Standing (London: Croom Helm, 1982), p. 121-145.
8774. Prez Guerrero, Edmundo. Colonizacin e inmigracin en el Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la
Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1954. 259 p.
8775. Pinto, Ernesto. Fecundidad en la adolescencia: Ecuador 1967-1978. Quito: Centro de
Estudios de Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable, 1984. 64 p.
8776. La Poblacin del Ecuador, Memoria del primer Congreso de Sociologa Ecuatoriana
(item 8313), t. 2, p. 7-91.
Based on the census of 1950. A useful statistical summary. Prepared by the Junta Nacional
de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica.
8777. Poblacin del Ecuador: composicin y crecimiento, 1950-1962-1974, Centro de Anlisis
Demogrfico. Quito: Junta Nacional de Planificacin y Coordinacin Econmica, 1974. 85 p.
8778. Poblacin, migracin y empleo en el Ecuador, Cesar Cisneros [et al.]; Simn Pachano,
[compilador]. Quito: ILDIS, 1988. 351 p.
8779. Poblacin, salud y nutricin en el Ecuador. Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y
Paternidad Responsable, 1992. 72 p.
8790. Puga Valencia, Carlos. Presin sobre el suelo y exodo en la migracin del Cantn Pedro
Moncayo. Quito: Ediciones Abya-Yala, 1986. 217 p.
Socioeconomic study of rural/urban migration in the Province of Pichincha.
8791. Quesada, Milton. La concentracin de la poblacin en el Azuay, Revista del IDIS,
19 (nov. 1988), 119-139.
8792. Quesada, Milton. Dinmica demogrfica de la Provincia del Azuay, Revista del IDIS,
19 (nov. 1988), 19-117.
8793. Rivera C., Carmen. Emigracin sierra-costa: (anlisis descriptivo a nivel de una
comunidad indgena de la Provincia del Chimborazo), Universidad, Universidad Catlica de
Santiago de Guayaquil, 16/17 (jun. 1972), 23-54.
A case study of the Indian community of Santa Rosa.
8794. Rodas, Hernn. La migracin campesina en el Azuay, Ecuador debate, 8 (abr. 1965),
155-193.
8795. Rudel, Thomas K.; and Samuel Richards. Urbanization, Roads, and Rural
Population Change in the Ecuadorian Andes, Studies in Comparative International Development,
25:3 (Fall 1990), 73-89.
8796. Rutenberg, Gary W.; and Stephen Beckerman. Further Data on the Oyacachi LiveBirth Sex Ratio, Current A nthropology, 22:2 (Apr. 1981), 173-175.
Updates Beckermans earlier findings (see item 8796). The live birth sex ratio for May 16,
1969 through Aug. 15, 1979 was 66.7, and therefore for the entire twenty years studied 104.4, a
thoroughly unexceptional figure.
8797. Senz Andrade, Alvaro. Expulsin de fuerza de trabajo agrcola y migracin campociudad, Segundo encuentro de historia y realidad econmica y social del Ecuador (item 574), vol. 2,
p. 249-277.
Argues that the conversion of haciendas in the highlands from tradicional to modern and
the concomitant replacement of resident huasipungueros by non-resident salaried labor,
beginning slowly in the 1950s and intensifying with the Agrarian Reform Law of 1964,
constitute the reason for massive migration from the countryside to the city, especially Quito,
between 1962 and 1974, utilizing Cutuglahua, a rural parish in the Canton of Meja in the
Province of Pichincha, as example.
8898. Senz Andrade, Alvaro; and Amalia Mauro. Migracin laboral en el area de influencia
de Quito. Santiago de Chile: PREALC, 1980. 107 p.
8799. Saunders, John V.D. T he People of Ecuador : a Demographic A nalysis. Gainesville:
University of Florida Press, 1961. 61 p.
Analysis of the 1950 or first modern national census. Also published in Spanish as: La
poblacin del Ecuador. Quito: Casa de la Cultura Ecuatoriana, 1959.
8800. Scrimshaw, Susan C.M. Adaption and Family Size from Rural Ecuador to
Guayaquil, Cultural Transformations and Ethnicity in Modern Ecuador (item 7939), p. 278-302.
Multi-variant study of newcomers to the port city and of the impact the Guayaquil has on
them. The demands of survival and success favor small families, reinforcing the tendency of
migrants from the highlands to have fewer children and causing migrants from rural areas of
the coast to reduce their family size. One of several studies by the author on the demography of
Guayaquil (see also items 8800-8803).
See also Scrimshaws Bringing the Period Down: Government and Squatter Settlement
Confront Induced Abortion in Ecuador, Micro and Macro Levels of A nalysis in A nthropology,
edited by Billie R. DeWalt and Pertti J. Pelto (Boulder: Westview Press, 1985), p. 121-146.
8801. Scrimshaw, Susan C.M. Culture, Environment and Family Size: A Study of Urban
Immigrants in Guayaquil, Ecuador. 1974. 173 leaves. Thesis (Ph.D.)Columbia University.
8802. Scrimshaw, Susan C.M. Family Formation and First Birth in Ecuador, T he First
Child and Family Formation, Warren B. Miller and Lucile F. Newman, editors (Chapel Hill:
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978), p. 108-127.
8803. Scrimshaw, Susan C.M. Fecundidad: actitudes y variantes relativas en los tugurios y
suburbios de Guayaquil. Quito: Ministerio de Salud Pblica, 1971. 85 p.
8804. Scrimshaw, Susan C.M. Infant Mortality and Behavior in the Regulation of Family
Size, Population and Development Review, 4:3 (Sept. 1978), 383-403.
8805. Seminario Poblacin, Poltica y Desarrollo Humano (1992: Quito, Ecuador).
Seminario Poblacin, Poltica y Desarrollo Humano: memorias. Quito: Centro de Estudios de
Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable, 1992. 155 p.
8807. Torres Q., Magdalena. Inmigracin a Quito y Guayaquil: estudio de casos, con la
colaboracin de Ernesto Pinto y Mnica Herrera. Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y
Paternidad Responsable, 1985. 191 p.
8808. Torres Q., Magdalena. Migraciones internas en el Ecuador. Quito: Centro de Estudios
de Poblacin y Paternidad Responsable, 1986. 59 p.
8809. Transhumance in the Central Andes, N.R. Stewart [et al.], A nnals of the A ssociation
of A merican Geographers, 66:x (Summer 1976), 377-397.
A study of Saraguro.
8810. Transicin de la fecundidad en el Ecuador. Quito: Centro de Estudios de Poblacin y
Paternidad Responsable, 1991. 97 p.
8811. Tual, Amy. Apuntes sobre dos migraciones de los Saraguros, Revista de antropologa
(Cuenca), 6 (jul. 1979), 117-129.
Examines migration of Saraguros to the coast and to the Oriente. Finds that Saraguros prefer
to migrate to the Oriente, especially in and around Yacuambi and Guadalupe, because the state
would issue land titles to them and because they are primarily farmers and ranchers.
8812. Urigen B., Daniel. Algunas consideraciones sobre los datos del censo de 1946,
Revista ecuatoriana de higiene y medicina tropical, 4:1/2 (junio 1947), 115-125.
A critique of the 1946 census of Guayaquil.
8813. Vivar Castro, Jos Mara. Migraciones internas en el sur del Ecuador, Revista
universitaria (Loja), 7:9/10 (1965), 25-34.
8814. Wolfers, David; and Susan C.M. Scrimshaw. Child Survival and Intervals between
Pregnancies in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Population Studies, 29:3 (Nov. 1975), 479-496.